Jeffrey Lord: Eric Holder is Obama's Harry Daugherty
[Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.]
Justice is supposed to be blind.
It isn't supposed to be rocket science.
Eric Holder, he of the prestigious Stuyvesant School for the intellectually gifted, Columbia University (where he was co-captain of his basketball team), and Columbia Law School -- is neither blind nor a rocket scientist.
Neither was Harry Daugherty, he the onetime legal whiz-kid who graduated from the University of Michigan law school at the precocious age of twenty -- and then had to wait until he was old enough to take the bar exam in his native Ohio. Daugherty, who like Holder mixed his legal career with politics, wound up managing the successful presidential campaign of his friend Warren Harding. Who promptly -- against considerable advice -- appointed his friend and political ally to head the Justice Department.
Daugherty promptly turned the Justice Department into a political playground -- and wound up resigning in disgrace.
As was true of President Harding's Harry Daugherty, President Obama's Eric Holder is a smart lawyer. And also as with Daugherty, no smart lawyer devoted to the law and impartial justice would come within a country mile of the type of repeated politicization both men favored and favor. Repeatedly bad decisions that have emerged from the Department of Justice during the two men's respective tenures almost ninety years apart as the nation's top lawyer could never come from the smart lawyers each was and is reputed to be....
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Justice is supposed to be blind.
It isn't supposed to be rocket science.
Eric Holder, he of the prestigious Stuyvesant School for the intellectually gifted, Columbia University (where he was co-captain of his basketball team), and Columbia Law School -- is neither blind nor a rocket scientist.
Neither was Harry Daugherty, he the onetime legal whiz-kid who graduated from the University of Michigan law school at the precocious age of twenty -- and then had to wait until he was old enough to take the bar exam in his native Ohio. Daugherty, who like Holder mixed his legal career with politics, wound up managing the successful presidential campaign of his friend Warren Harding. Who promptly -- against considerable advice -- appointed his friend and political ally to head the Justice Department.
Daugherty promptly turned the Justice Department into a political playground -- and wound up resigning in disgrace.
As was true of President Harding's Harry Daugherty, President Obama's Eric Holder is a smart lawyer. And also as with Daugherty, no smart lawyer devoted to the law and impartial justice would come within a country mile of the type of repeated politicization both men favored and favor. Repeatedly bad decisions that have emerged from the Department of Justice during the two men's respective tenures almost ninety years apart as the nation's top lawyer could never come from the smart lawyers each was and is reputed to be....