Posted on 02/23/2011 2:09:33 PM PST by EternalVigilance
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder doesn't know the difference between the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments.
From CNN :
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Attorney General Eric Holder today sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, after determining that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, “as applied to same-sex couples who are legally married under state law, violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment.”
Aside from the sheer immorality of this move, the equal protection clause is not in the Fifth Amendment, it's in the Fourteenth Amendment:
"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -- the Fourteenth Amendment
CNN has the text of Holder's letter here ...
Paragraph 1:
After careful consideration, including review of a recommendation from me, the President of the United States has made the determination that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), 1 U.S.C. § 7, as applied to same-sex couples who are legally married under state law, violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 530D, I am writing to advise you of the Executive Branch’s determination and to inform you of the steps the Department will take in two pending DOMA cases to implement that determination.
*hat tip to Savvy at AIPNews for catching this!
And this is news?
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And people are surprised? I know the MSM media isn’t because they don’t know either, otherwise it’s be flashed on CNN.
Sounds to me that if they don’t wish to defend this law, then they should be defunded. We certainly don’t need justice lawyers sitting around with nothing to do.
See, e.g., Washington v. Davis, 426 U.S. 229, 239 (1976): "The central purpose of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is the prevention of official conduct discriminating on the basis of race. It is also true that the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment contains an equal protection component prohibiting the United States from invidiously discriminating between individuals or groups. Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U. S. 497 (1954)."
The due process clause applies against the federal government via the 5th amendment.
Well holy penumbras!
Chris Matthews soon to come to Holder’s defense. Stellar legal mind that he is.... < / sarc
Yikes!
Affirmative action at its finest. That is scary.
No wonder spellcheck didn’t catch it. It’s a word!
Spell czech is knot yore friend!
Obama hires people around him based on how much the worship him, not on their abilities. I heard today that several of his cabinet members had not received so much as a phone call from him in over 2 years.
There is no such express "clause" in the Amendment.
Of course, even without such an explicit clause, I agree that the requirements in the Amendment apply to the the federal government, and should protect all persons.
At least the people's legitimate rights, of which sodomy is not one.
As usual, they have the world turned on its head.
DOMA is meant to protect states from having to accept sodomy fake marriage, just because other states have in some way or another (mostly by judicial fiat) accepted such immoral nonsense.
So, as usual, the Left has everything exactly backwards. This is just one more example.
Maybe Holder doesn’t know his gound from a hole the butt. Or maybe he got gound from having his head up his butt so much.
The people in charge took an oath to uphold the laws of America. Failure to due so is grounds for removal from office.
Ditto
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