Justice Department Under Holder is the subject of this article in the Weekly Standard by Jennifer Rubin.  Citing then-nominee Holder's remarks during his confirmation hearings, Rubin notes numerous contradictions in Attorney General Holder's actions over the past seven months.  She makes the case that he has already politicized the Justice Department far more that the oft-criticized Bush administration.

Cop Killer Gets Life:  A San Jose Judge today sentenced DeShawn Campbell to LWOP for the 2001 murder of a police officer during a traffic stop.  SF Chronicle writer Henry K. Lee reports that most of the seven-year delay, in what appeared to be a straightforward capital murder case, is due to fallout from the 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Atkins v. Virginia.  Atkins announced that it was unconstitutional to sentence a mentally retarded murderer to death.  Justice's Stevens' opinion left it to the states to decide how to define mental retardation.  In April of 2007, the California Supreme Court determined the standard in People v. Superior Court (Vidal) 40 Cal. 4th 999, 155 P. 3d 259, 56 Cal. Rptr. 3d 851 (2007).  Later that year, Judge Diane Northway ruled that Campbell did not meet it.  Last December, after California's Sixth District Court of Appeal reopened the case, she changer her mind - announcing that he was retarded.  In May, the jury responded by convicting him of second degree murder of a police officer.