Posted on 10/01/2013 5:05:40 AM PDT by smokingfrog
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday refused to dismiss a lawsuit by Republican lawmakers who accuse Attorney General Eric Holder of wrongfully withholding documents tied to an investigation into a botched probe of gun trafficking on the U.S.-Mexican border.
"Neither legal nor prudential considerations support the dismissal of this action," District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in a ruling rejecting the Department of Justice's request to dismiss the lawsuit in federal court in Washington.
The Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sued Holder in August 2012, seeking to enforce its subpoena connected to the gun trafficking probe dubbed "Operation Fast and Furious" after the Obama administration refused to turn over related documents.
The federal operation aimed to build a case against major gun traffickers who supplied firearms to Mexican drug cartels, electing not to immediately prosecute low-level traffickers even as they bought 2,000 potentially illegal guns.
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we can dream
This doesn’t get a thing done and means nothing.. The case could go on until all those in power today are dead and gone. Lawyers will file appeal after appeal and some Douchebag lawyers will earn a good living taking this to court ever 6 months or so.
Can this bastard, Holder, be impeached?
Sure he can be impeached. But who holds the evidence to convict him (he/Holder does), and will a senate controlled by Harry Reid actually do anything about it?
HOORAY District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson!
R.I.P. Brian Terry
R.I.P. innocent Mexican civilians.
FURIOUS
TREASON - continuous, in-your-face, media-complicit, agency-abetted, representative-enabled, ongoing...
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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