Shocking! Injustice Dept. Refuses To Prosecute Holder For Contempt Of Congress

Disgrace to the office of Attorney General

(Roll Call) -- The Department of Justice, following longstanding practice by prior administrations, is declining to prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder for being in contempt of Congress, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said Thursday in a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Along with the contempt citation, House Republicans passed a resolution Thursday granting authority to bring a civil suit to enforce the contempt resolution.

“Across administrations of both political parties, the longstanding position of the Department of Justice has been and remains that we will not prosecute an Executive Branch official under the contempt of Congress statute for withholding subpoenaed documents pursuant to a presidential assertion of executive privilege,” Cole wrote.

In response, Republicans noted that they had not yet transmitted the contempt proceeding to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, whom federal law accords the authority to determine whether to prosecute.

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