Gunrunner: Judge denies Eric Holder’s appeal to keep subpoenaed documents hidden

  This is a story which has gone largely unreported but last week a Federal judge ruled that Eric Holder and the Injustice Department must turn over the documents which were subpoenaed by Darrell Issa’s Oversight Committee. These are the same documents over which Eric Holder was held in Contempt of Congress for failing to provide in the first place.

  Eric Holder immediately sought and appeal of this decision but it is now being reported in this story that his appeal has been denied.

A federal judge has refused Attorney General Eric Holder’s request that he be allowed to proceed now with an appeal in a case where the House of Representatives is seeking to enforce subpoenas for documents related to the controversial Operation Fast and Furious gun investigation.

In a ruling Monday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said her September 30 ruling rejecting Holder’s request to dismiss the lawsuit was not such a close call that it deserved immediate review from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

“While the Court agrees with defendant’s characterization of the matter as significant, that is not the test,” Jackson wrote in her new four-page decision

“The Court is not of the opinion that its denial of the motion to dismiss involves a controlling question of law as to which there is a substantial ground for difference of opinion,” she wrote in her Monday order, issued just one business day after Holder’s lawyers asked for the immediate appeal. “The ruling was based upon Supreme Court precedent and Circuit precedent, and it was decided in accordance with an opinion issued by another judge of this court in a substantially similar matter…. Defendant has not pointed to any precedent that would supply the grounds for a difference of opinion.”

  However, this does not mean that we are going to learn what is in these documents any time soon:

Jackson’s latest ruling means it is likely the Justice Department will have to produce a detailed log of what was withheld from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and why. Rounds of protracted litigation over the legitimacy of the withholdings seem all but certain, unless the sides come to an agreement which has heretofore eluded them

  Eric Holder, and the Obama regime, are clearly trying to run out the clock here and it may just work because it could be years before we learn the truth about the gun running scandal which lead to the deaths of Brian Terry and Jamie Zapata. So much for the Obama regime being the most open and honest administration in United States history.