Washington Congressional Delegation to Eric Holder — Please violate federal law with us

On June 17, 2013, sev­en Democ­rats from the state of Wash­ing­ton’s Con­gres­sion­al Del­e­ga­tion wrote a let­ter to the chief law enforce­ment offi­cer in the Unit­ed States ask­ing him not to enforce fed­er­al law. You can read that let­ter here:
Washington-Congressional-Delegation-to-Eric-Holder-June-2013.pdf.

Fed­er­al offi­cials swear an oath when they take office to uphold the laws and the Con­sti­tu­tion of the Unit­ed States. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, for this band of rene­gades, Eric Hold­er is not run­ning for re-elec­tion and does­n’t have to wor­ry about what laws the peo­ple in the state of Wash­ing­ton think he should refuse to enforce. I’m not sure it’s trea­son for these Democ­rats to make such a request, but it comes awful­ly close.

The sad part of this sto­ry is that there is a fed­er­al law that Attor­ney Gen­er­al Hold­er is not enforc­ing. Con­gress put a lim­it on sched­ule one in the fed­er­al drug law that says the Attor­ney Gen­er­al may not clas­si­fy a sub­stance in sched­ule one if it has accept­ed med­ical use in treat­ment in the Unit­ed States. Wash­ing­ton has had a state med­ical mar­i­jua­na law since 1998, but the Con­gres­sion­al Del­e­ga­tion from the state of Wash­ing­ton has nev­er once asked Attor­ney Gen­er­al Hold­er to enforce this pro­hi­bi­tion on fed­er­al sched­ule one.