The Senate Judiciary Committee has cause to consider finding Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress. During his confirmation process last year, Mr. Holder withheld a tremendously important legal brief from the committee. Combined with a series of other occasions on which the attorney general has stonewalled congressional queries, this new revelation reflects so badly on Mr. Holder’s ethics that it puts in doubt his fitness for office.
This wasn’t just any old legal brief. It was a brief (actually, two of them on the same basic case) before the Supreme Court regarding one of the most important and controversial cases of the past several decades. This case had direct bearing on the single most important issue of Mr. Holder’s tenure so far as attorney general.
When the committee was considering Mr. Holder’s confirmation, it asked, as is standard practice, for copies of any briefs he had filed with the Supreme Court
Thanks for your post. I recall that now that you jolted my memory. It was a big deal and should have caused him to not be confirmed.