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The nation's racial unrest can be blamed in part on former Attorney General Eric Holder and his embrace of rabble-rousers like the Rev. Al Sharpton, says GOP presidential candidate George Pataki, the former governor of New York.

"We have seen the country take a step backward in race relations over the course of the past seven years and it started when you have people like Eric Holder embracing Al Sharpton, who has been a divisive force forever," Pataki said Tuesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

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Pataki cited Holder's trip to Ferguson, Missouri, last summer after unarmed black teen Michael Brown was shot dead by white Police Officer Darren Wilson, prompting riots and Holder's Justice Department probe of the shooting even after a Missouri grand jury vindicated Wilson. He said Holder ultimately had to issue a report "saying that police officer did nothing wrong."

Reflecting on the Charleston, South Carolina, tragedy in which nine African-Americans were shot dead during a prayer meeting last week, Pataki told Steve Malzberg:

"It was a white racist who committed this horrible, horrible act of criminal terrorism. He should face the consequence, but we all have to look at ourselves and say, 'What are we doing to unite people instead of divide us?'"

"I'm fortunate, I grew up in a very ethnically, racially, very diverse community and we all looked at each other as part of that town. Neighbors, friends, teammate soon the basketball team or the track team.

"That's what we have to get back to. We're all Americans and let's stop dividing so that we can gain some advantage."

Pataki also weighed in on the renewed call for more gun control laws.

"It's part of our Constitution and our constitutional rights to have the right to bear arms and whenever there's an incident like this, too many try to use it to gain a political advantage and advance an ideological agenda," Pataki said.

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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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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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