Attorney General Eric Holder Admits To Not Reading Arizona’s Immigration Law
Attorney General Eric Holder is catching fire for admitting that, despite speaking out against it, he has yet to read the Arizona illegal immigration law. During a House Judiciary hearing, Republican Congressman Tom Poe asked Holder about his comments that the federal government might sue Arizona over the law and, more specifically, whether he had read the bill himself. Holder, embarrassingly, muttered that he had skimmed the bill but hadn’t gotten around to reading it.
The “read the bill” debate was pivotal to passing of health care reform, though in that case, the bill was thousands of pages and it was nearly universally recognized that no one had actually read every single page of the bill.
That said, none of the clips Sean Hannity uses to attack Holder in the segment below, showing Holder arguing against the immigration law, show him making any definite statements. “It has the possibility of leading to racial profiling;” “I don’t think it’s necessarily a good idea”— both of these are fair statements to make on a bill using only the knowledge of a light perusal and the opinions of those you respect. Where Holder gets into trouble is with his proposal that there might be a federal lawsuit against the law—a very strong threat to make without having actually read the text at hand.
A clip of this back and forth was featured on last night’s Hannity:
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