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Holder touts record in speech to Latino group

The Orlando Sentinel –

BAY LAKE, Fla. — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in Central Florida on Thursday preaching civil rights, voting rights and justice but saying nothing about prospects of Congress holding him in contempt.

The beleaguered attorney general is a target of congressional Republicans investigating the Justice Department’s botched gun-running investigation known as Fast and Furious. In his 20-minute speech to the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation’s largest and oldest civil-rights organization for Latinos, Holder stuck to easier topics.

However, Holder told 1,000 LULAC delegates at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, “It’s good to be here and not in Washington, D.C., right now.

Later Thursday, the House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.

In his speech, Holder said that in the past three years, the Justice Department has filed more civil-rights cases than in any previous period in the nation’s history.

He said the department is pursuing “careful, thorough and independent” assessments of voter-law changes, including those in Florida. His department lost a challenge in U.S. District Court attempting to stop a purge of voters whom the state suspected were not U.S. citizens. Though he mentioned the Florida effort, he did not acknowledge that setback by his department.

He highlighted his department’s suit against Arizona that led the Supreme Court to strike down parts of that state’s immigration-enforcement laws.

“I want to assure communities in Arizona and around the country, and you, that the Department of Justice will continue to vigorously enforce federal prohibitions against racial profiling and ethnic discrimination,” he said.

Holder made one more veiled reference to the potential he faced of being held in contempt over the administration’s refusal to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious investigation.

He urged LULAC members to “call on policymakers to go beyond partisan gridlock and political “gotcha games.”

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