Commentary

Obama Team Courts Trouble

By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, May 17 2012

A plethora of recent news items show that the Obama administration’s various legal teams continue to lose cases, embarrass themselves in court, exacerbate racial tensions and trample repeatedly on basic, traditional standards of justice. Each of the following examples probably merits extensive individual treatment which space does not immediately permit – but, in toto, they paint a picture of a biased, rogue and often lawless administration. Item One: Perhaps most disturbing was the discovery on a Facebook page of a key Justice Department official insulting the entire state of Mississippi…

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