The law and its officers

[fpb]

Point one: Mr Eric Holder, the United States' chief law enforcement officer, has announced that his department will not defend lawsuits involving the Defence of Marriage Act, a federal law duly passed by Congress and signed by (a Democrat) President.
Point two: In Italian law there is a crime called omission of an official duty, which carries, I believe, a jail term.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Indeed -- this would be termed "misfeasance" in America (it's "malfeasance" if done with bad intent). Holder could be prosecuted for this, and he's skating on increasingly thinner ice as Obama's Administration loses support in both Congress and the Courts. Obama and Holder have both made this worse by deliberate defiance of both.

Holder's done this before, too, on a more serious matter: the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

And now the bounty put on Zimmerman's head. What will it take to wake the average Democrat up?

[blue-sky-day.livejournal.com]

They don't really care: a lot of Democrats are opposed to the DOMA, and therefore will approve of this decision
Also, plenty of his supporters probably buy in 100% to the attacks on Zimmerman (even though the news media have been caught lying and distorting aspects of the case).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The point is that the law is to be defended even if you disagree with it. If Democrats as a mass don't understand this simple and obvious point, they are not worthy of being called citizens of a free commonwealth.