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By Mary Theroux | Monday October 6, 2014 at 8:44 AM PDT | Comments Off on NSA Mission Creep: Its for the Children

In the aftermath of Edward Snowdens, and numerous other credible whistleblowers irrefutable revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies are capturing and indefinitely storing millions of innocent Americans phone calls, emails, internet transactions, and even movements and whereabouts at any given timeApple and other tech companies are rightfully responding to Read More

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By Melancton Smith | Friday April 6, 2012 at 5:11 AM PDT | 1 Comment

As noted on Wednesday here at The Beacon, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Administration to address whether the federal courts have the power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional. Here is the response from the Attorney General. No surprises found in the letter, other than a Read More

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By David J. Theroux | Wednesday December 30, 2009 at 9:55 PM PDT | 0 Comments

Syndicated columnist and bestselling author Dave Barrys provides an incisive and hilarious, month-by-month review of the year 2009, Dave Barrys year in review: 2009. As he begins: It was a year of Hopeat first in the sense of I feel hopeful! and later in the sense of I hope this year ends soon! It Read More

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By Anthony Gregory | Monday March 30, 2009 at 8:37 AM PDT | 27 Comments

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This is indeed, I think, a very hopeful time, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said at the Capital Pride Heroes Gala on June 3. But we should not kid ourselves. Much work really remains to be done. The fight is larger than the one solely for marriage equality. Discrimination against the LGBT community is still very real. It is still the basis for wrong-headed policies and dangerous attitudes. And so the fight for true LGBT equality must go on. The struggle must continue.

Holder was presented by Capital Pride with the 2015 Paving the Way Award for his courage and leadership in helping to advance LGBT rights as the Obama administrations top law enforcement official. It was Holder who refused to defend the congressionally-approved Defense of Marriage Act better known as DOMA on the basis that he believed the federal law to be unconstitutional. Holder also instituted guidelines outlining how the federal government would treat and recognize same-sex couples with respect to federal spousal benefits and legal rights after DOMA was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2013.

Wednesday nightswell-attened gala, held at the statelyCarnegie Auditorium on K Street NW, served as the kickoff to this years Capital Pride celebration.

If only one person or one group is denied the full measure of our Constitution, all of us are diminished, Holder told the crowd. All those who are committed to making real the promise of our democracy must engage on all of these fronts, on all of these fronts. And all lives, all lives matter.

Progress is indeed possible, he continued. But it is not a gift. It is the result of hard work, organization, and perseverance. Workingtogether, I am fully confident we can make this great nation great.

Speaking exclusively with Metro Weekly earlier in the evening,Holdernoted that the honor meant agreat deal to him and called the fight for full LGBT equality the civil rights issue of our time.

Holder also struck a personal note, explaining that his support for LGBT rights was inspired in his youth by a gay relative.

Uncle Sonny. He was gay. He was always the coolest guy I knew.He was the firstguy I knew who had a sports car, let me ridein it, let me drive it when I shouldnt have been able to drive it I was too young and I always saw the gay community through him.

And for me, it is one of the reasons why Im so passionate about this. I think about him, and the closeted life that he had to lead, and kind of thought, in my own mind, that it was just fundamentally unfair. And coming from a civil rights background, this seems to me just a logical extension of the things we have done in the past.

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By Brett Redmayne-Titley.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.- Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1963-1981).

US Department of Justice boss, Eric Holder, did indeed resign more than six months ago. In a continuing example of his disregard for the tenants of his job, Attorney General Holder carries on, serving the interests of the corporately wealthy. Half-a-year on there is no discussion of his replacement.

Of course. A man of Holders resume is hard to get rid of.

Just a day prior to his resignation as USAG, on Monday, Sept 15, 2014, DoJ leader, Eric Holder, announced a new set of US programs designed to increase Americas internal ability to spy and report on its own citizens.

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Attorney General Eric Holder recently revealed that the Justice Department is expanding its guidelines for convicted felons seeking clemency (often called a pardon or commutation of sentence). But there are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime -- and who, as a result, will have to spend far more time in prison than they would if sentenced today for exactly the same crime.

Holders announcement was a messaging disaster. He fed the common misconception that clemency is only for people who want to get out of prison. Headlines read, Thousands of prisoners could qualify for clemency, and Obama seeks wider authority to release drug offenders.

Release the prisoners messaging does not bode well with most Americans. Rather than focus on current inmates and blame the old regime, Holder should have spoken about the administrations desire to pardon millions of Americans who never served a day in prison yet live as convicted felons for a crime they committed many years ago. These people blame nobody but themselves for their crimes and they have become contributing members of society.

Andrew McCarthy (who commented to Fox News Megyn Kelly about the initiative) wrote, This exercise is another transparent usurpation of legislative power by the president. The pardon power is just the camouflage for it. The pardon power exists so that the president can act in individual cases to correct excesses and injustices. It is not supposed to be a vehicle by which presidents rewrite congressional statutes that they disagree with philosophically

McCarthy is wrong: The pardon power is executive; it is not legislative. The pardon power is not a congressional statute. It is enumerated (written in the Constitution of the United States of America, as well as each states constitution) that is the sole power of the president (for federal crimes) and each states governor (for state crimes).

The true essence of the pardon power is about forgiveness, not about releasing the guilty and dangerous -- like murderers and child molesters -- back onto the streets. Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and The Innocence Project focus much of their work on inmates, many of whom are not sympathetic to the average American.

The majority of Americans who seek a pardon have never been to prison, but rather pleaded guilty to a crime and were sentenced to probation. Whether one is sentenced to 5 years in prison or 5 years on probation, both remain convicted felons for life. Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers, for example, was recently pardoned by Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman for felony larceny he committed in 1970. He never went to prison, but received two years probation.

In 2004, Eric Pizer, an Iraq war veteran who served two tours of duty, was arrested in Madison, Wis., and charged with felony battery after he tried to break up a fight just two days after he returned from war. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years probation. He never went to prison.

For the past 10 years, Pizer has been a devoted husband and father. He received a Criminal Justice degree. But employers only see his permanent Felon Scarlett Letter. He can only get low-paying jobs and currently works as a piano mover.

Wisconsins Constitution states, The governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, after conviction, for all offenses, except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as he may think proper Gov. Walker has ignored this executive power: he has yet to grant a single pardon even though his five predecessors granted more than 800 certificates of forgiveness.

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NEW CASTLE, Ind. Should teachers be allowed to use students as props for their personal political causes? It happens all the time in school districts around the nation, particularly at the secondary level. Local teacher unions will protest the lack of a new collective bargaining agreement with a school board, and the next thing you know, high school and middle school kids are walking out of class in support of the teachers. Who do you suppose gets the students all riled up? But now some teachers are apparently willing to involve elementary-aged children in their labor wars. Or at...

Last month, Senator Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the executive summary of their final report investigating the CIA's controversial detention and interrogation program. As part of their study, the Democrats compiled twenty case studies, which were intended to address claims made by the CIA regarding the efficacy of its interrogations. One of those case studies focused on the identification and arrest of Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri, who was freed from a US prison just days ago. Al Marri served as a "sleeper" operative for al Qaeda inside the US in 2001....

The times they are a-changin'. This week, a Republican congressman from Orange County, California, joined Oakland medical marijuana dispenser Steve DeAngelo to urge President Barack Obama, a Democrat who started out as a critic of the war on drugs, to curb his Department of Justice. They want Obama to make his prosecutors stop trying to shut down honest marijuana establishments in states that have legalized medical marijuana. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and the left-leaning DeAngelo have found common cause in calling out one area in which the federal government can and should do less. They've got the law on their side....

Attorney General Eric Holder called out Fox News yesterday for fixating on the Obamas administratons terminology for ISIS. If Fox didnt talk about this, they would have nothing else to talk about, it seems to me, said at the National Press Club. (snip) They want to kill us and yet the Attorney General, chief law enforcement officer for the United States of America, is bugged by the fact that Fox brings up the accurate point they are Islamic extremists, lets call it Islamic extremism, Steve Doocy said. Obviously this administration talks tougher about Fox News than they do about ISIS,...

In weighing whether to bring discrimination charges against the Ferguson Police Department, the Justice Department has been seriously examining allegations that the citys enforcement of minor offenses discriminated against minorities and often led to jail times and fines that lined the citys coffers, a law enforcement official confirmed to POLITICO. Department lawyers handling the investigation have repeatedly met with lawyers for a St. Louis non-profit that filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging that the city of Ferguson and its neighbor, Jennings, were running what amounted to modern-day debtors prisons, people familiar with the meetings said. The organization, Arch City...

ACTION: Contact your Senators and urge them to cosponsor S. 477, the Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2015. Operation Choke Point a Threat to the Second Amendment About a year ago, the Second Amendment community was rocked by news that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had teamed up with Attorney General Eric Holder to utterly destroy firearms manufacturers and dealers by cutting off all credit and banking relationships with them.For its part, the FDIC categorized gun and ammunition sales as a "high-risk business," lumping it in with drug dealers, pornographers, and Ponzi scheme operators -- all of...

About a year ago, the Second Amendment community was rocked by news that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had teamed up with Attorney General Eric Holder to utterly destroy firearms manufacturers and dealers by cutting off all credit and banking relationships with them. For its part, the FDIC categorized gun and ammunition sales as a "high-risk business," lumping it in with drug dealers, pornographers, and Ponzi scheme operators -- all of which it was working to completely destroy. Holder, in turn, would provide the "muscle" -- using a program called Operation Choke Point to make sure banks "got the...

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She said, Children were slaughtered in their classrooms [at Sandy Hook Elementary] and we have not made any meaningful progress on changing the access to guns in this country. Are we a nation of cowards when it comes to guns? Holder responded: Well, Ill say this, [walking through the school] was the worst day I had as Attorney General. It is, I think the single failure that I point to in my time as Attorney General, that I was not able to convince Congress to really follow the will of the American people which was to enact meaningful, reasonable,...

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