Attorney General
Eric Holder wants to appeal a recent judge’s ruling that allows the House to
continue with its contempt case, related to Holder’s refusal to turn over
documents concerning the Justice Department’s failed Operation Fast and Furious
gun-tracking program. Holder made the request Friday night to U.S.
District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, asking that the Justice Department be
allowed to put the case in front of a federal appeals court before Jackson
makes any final decisions.
In September,
Jackson rejected the Obama administration’s request to have the case dismissed. The GOP-led House voted last year to put
Holder in contempt of court after President Obama invoked executive privilege
and Holder refused to turn over the documents.
Fast and Furious was a 2006-2011 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives operation in which the agency allowed hundreds of guns to be
sold to Mexican drug traffickers in hopes the weapons would lead them to cartel
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