Krauthammer: Holder's Actions On Drug Sentencing "Unlawful, Shocking"
SHANNON BREAM: We look at DOMA, they said they wouldn't enforce or defend it in court, which they were ultimately -- you know, that was approval of the Supreme Court, at least that section, that relevant section was struck down, but there's a lot of criticism for this administration doing these kinds of things. But today, the Attorney General sounded confident moving forward and talked about a number of directives he has given on a number of fronts.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: That's because he hasn't received any push back. What he's done now, what he's proposed with these drug laws is worse than just suspending the parts of the law, instructing prosecutors not to prosecute. He also is telling prosecutors who already have prosecutions in place that they can withhold evidence so that the defendant won't get a maximum or mandatory penalty. I mean, that is illegal, that is unlawful. I mean, that is simply shocking that that would be the instruction from an attorney general.
I think as one former attorney general, deputy attorney general said if you did that in a private case, you would be accused of a felony if you were prosecuting it and withholding evidence. And it is epidemic, it isn't only in this, it is in the Obamacare law -- the administration's own law, the parts of which it is suspending. It is in the DREAM Act, which is an unilateral suspension, and the president proudly says this.
He goes out and says, 'I will not allow Congress to stand in the way of x, y and z that I want to do. Well, under our constitution, Congress stands in the way if it doesn't approve of something. In a banana republic, the caldeo stands up and says, 'I will not allow, you know, the old guard, I will not allow a constitution written by autocrats get in the way of helping people.' That's not how we do it here. And it is shocking how little resistance it has gotten not only from the Republicans, but from Democrats who are endorsing this continuous and repeated lawlessness. (Special Report, August 12, 2013)
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