Blatant Disregard of the Law

In legal terms, there are different levels of fault with regard to those who ignore their duties. Carelessness is called "negligence" while those who act with knowing disregard of their obligations are guilty of "gross negligence". For gross negligence the law will award punitive damages in many circumstances; it will also ignore certain defenses that would apply to regular negligence.

The Department of Justice is today essentially admitting that it is intentionally ignoring its duties to enforce the law. The spokeman for DOJ announced that it will not file any suit against so called sanctualry cities that refuse to enforce federal immigration laws. According to the spokesman, these sanctualry cities are just not enforcing the law and that does not interfere with the overall enforcement of the immigration statutes. The spokesman went on to say that Arizona was actively enforcing the immigration law, so that interfered with overall enforcement of the immigration law.

I am not making this up. DOJ has announced that those who intentionally do not enforce the law do not interfere with enforcement while those who do enforce the law are interfering. What is coming next? Will DOJ give enforcement awards to Oakland for announcing that it will no longer make arrests for minor crimes (misdemeanors)? Will DOJ sue the Secret service for actively protecting the president and interfering with his protection? Will those who fail to file tax returns now be given a pass and those who obey the law and file get harassed?

This announcement is an admission of the crass politicization of DOJ under Eric Holder. We are now told that there will be no enforcement of federal immigration law despite the clear duty by DOJ to enforce these statutes. Coming in the same week as the disclosure that DOJ will no longer enforce the civil rights laws if the victim is white, it has become abundantly clear that DOJ ought to be changed to DOSE, the department of selective enforcement.

Holder is a disgrace and has to go. Obama should follow him out the door. In my opinion, these are impeachable offenses. I doubt anything will come of them given the makeup of Congress, but people had better wake up to what is actually going on here. It truly stinks!