This article is based on an article that was posted yesterday at Yahoo News and an article at the Washington Examiner yesterday.
Yahoo News reports that the Justice Department is filing a lawsuit against Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County. The lawsuit charges that Sheriff Arpaio is refusing to cooperate with a federal investigation into allegations of discrimination and illegal searches and seizures by the department.
According to Yahoo News:
"Arpaio told the Arizona Republic that he thought the lawsuit was "camouflage" for a federal attempt to curtail his anti-illegal immigration sweeps in mostly Latino communities. He also said he had begun cooperating with federal authorities and thought they were making headway toward a solution."
Well, all may not be what it appears to be. The Washington Examiner article reveals:
"...in September 2008, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE, did its own investigation of Arpaio's office-- and gave it a clean bill of health. Arpaio's lawyers recently got a copy of the ICE report through the Freedom of Information Act."
It seems as if the Obama Justice Department has very strange ideas of what legal cases need to be follow up on and what legal cases need to be ignored. I would be a whole lot more convinced that this was not a political lawsuit if the Justice Department had been willing to follow up on the voter intimidation suit against the Black Panters. I believe that the Obama Administration uses the Justice Department for political reasons. As long as the Democrats control Congress, this will continue. Please vote Republican in November and bring justice back to the Justice Department.
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