Eric Holder actually said...

the duty of the Justice Department is to defend statutes that have been passed by Congress, unless there is some very compelling reason not to.

Holder states the Justice Department's obligation to uphold Congressional statutes.

01/14/2009

More Eric Holder Quotes

We are not going to be inventing things. It is not going to be a new way of doing things at the Department.

This notion of 'leftist lawyers' somehow prolonging this, the vast majority of the time in which these matters were not brought to trial, to...

The position of the administration is that there should be a basis for law enforcement to share information about gun purchases.

I think the legislation that was initially proposed by the Bush administration was well conceived, and we will continue to support that.