OUR NEW JUSTICE DEPARMENT IN ACTION - 10:33 P.M. ET:  The Department of Justice, under Eric Holder, is likely to become a major political issue.  The decision to try the mastermind of 9-11 in a civilian court in New York is one factor.  Here is another:

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group.

The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group’s activities and recent efforts to distance the government from it.

COMMENT:  Notice the day this comes out - the day after Thanksgiving, when no one is concentrating on the news. 

Earlier this year, Eric Holder and his band little litigators abandoned a perfectly winnable case against a group of new Black Panthers who were charged with intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place on election day, 2008. 

We have a Justice Department being run as a political adjunct of the left wing of the Democratic Party.  Eric Holder, who had a reputation as a very political Justice Department official during the Clinton administration, and who approved the pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, should never have been made attorney general.  Obama's mistake is now our curse, and it must be lifted as soon as possible.

November 27, 2009