Judge Slaps Down Eric Holder's Request For Fast and Furious Lawsuit to be Dismissed

A criminal liar at the head of Dept. of Justice. We ARE in a Banana Dictatorship. m/r

Judge Slaps Down Eric Holder's Request For Fast and Furious Lawsuit to be Dismissed - Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich | Oct 01, 2013

Late Monday night, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied a Department of Justice request todismiss a lawsuit filed by the House Oversight Committee last summer over Operation Fast and Furious documents.

“In the Court's view endorsing the proposition that the executive may assert an unreviewable right to withhold materials from the legislature would offend the Constitution more than undertaking to resolve the specific dispute that has been presented here,” Jackson wrote in her ruling. "Neither legal nor prudential considerations support the dismissal of this action, the defendant’s motion to dismiss the action will be denied."

The lawsuit was filed shortly after Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over requested Fast and Furious documents to Congress and after President Obama asserted executive privilege over documents despite denying any involvement in the operation.

"This ruling is a repudiation of the Obama Justice Department and Congressional Democrats who argued the courts should have no role in the dispute over President Obama's improper assertion of executive privilege to protect an attempted Justice Department cover-up of Operation Fast and Furious,” Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa said in a statement.

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