2013-06-04

Cato: Obama-Holder at War with the Constitution

For the first time in our turbulent history, a sitting member of a presidential Cabinet, Attorney General Eric Holder, has been held in criminal contempt of Congress by the House of Representatives for failing, when subpoenaed, to provide key documents in an aborted gun-trafficking investigation.
Stripping that historic contempt of any meaning, the Justice Department, of which Holder is the boss, refuses to prosecute him. That’s because Holder’s boss, President Barack Obama, has characteristically invoked executive privilege to keep those documents sealed.
Since 9/11, we have become a nation in which the president frequently acts as a king, without acknowledging the legislature and the courts.
So, in the wake of the huge attention being paid to the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare, Eric Holder remains our chief law enforcement officer — and Obama’s regal role in keeping Holder out of court as a defendant has been almost entirely overlooked.
With the presidential election fast approaching in November, voters on both sides have almost entirely lost sight of the high crimes committed by Holder and Obama against one of the most profound constitutional rights guaranteed to every one of us in the Fifth Amendment:
Nor shall any person “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
As King George III and his British troops found out, there is no place for a king in the United States of America. Yet, on March 5, before students at the Northwestern University School of Law, Attorney General Holder loftily explained why President Obama was well within the Constitution in assassinating three American citizens as terrorism suspects in Yemen without a trace of due process. The king had spoken.

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