Post by Daniel on May 23, 2016 9:19:59 GMT -5
Federal Court Throws “Rulebook” at Obama’s “Intentionally Deceptive” DOJ in Scorching Smackdown
By Matthew Clark
May 20th, 2016
A federal court just issued the most scorching smackdown of the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) I have ever seen.
Any time a federal judge calls the lawyers for a party “intentionally deceptive,” “unethical,” and accuses them of having “clearly misled both counsel for the Plaintiff States and the Court,” it’s worth taking notice. But when it’s done against the federal government’s lawyers (the Obama Administration’s lawyers) over the course of 28 searing pages of judicial excoriation, it is epic.
A few weeks ago I told you about the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ blistering takedown of the IRS and DOJ over the targeting of conservatives. It was awe-inspiring and rightly deserved. This new order from a federal district court in Texas takes it to the next level. It is by far the most scorching judicial repudiation of “intentionally deceptive,” “bad faith,” and “unethical” actions on the part of the federal government in this Administration.
More importantly, the court went further than a mere scolding, this order has serious teeth behind it, imposing six substantial and concrete penalties on the Obama Administration’s DOJ.
It literally reads as if this court were taking the DOJ out behind the woodshed, and for good reason.
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The case concerns how the Obama Administration ignored the “rulebook” – the Constitution – in making its lawless Executive action on immigration, “chang[ing] the law” to grant legal status to four million illegal aliens. (This became known as the DHS directive.) The decision in that case is currently in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, but this order concerns the fact that the Obama Administration’s lawyers “knowingly” made “multiple misrepresentations” to the federal district court that the Administration’s scheme had not gone into effect. In fact, the Administration was “surreptitiously acting,” implementing the DHS directive in over 100,000 instances.
The court did not mince words in excoriating the Administration, the lawyers involved, and “unknown” leadership within the DOJ who authorized or failed to correct the intentional misleading of the court.
The entire opinion is a must read, but here are just a few snippets of the brilliant and at times breathtaking order...
continue reading
www.redstate.com/matthewclark/2016/05/20/federal-court-throws-rulebook-obama-intentionally-deceptive-doj-scorching-smackdown/
By Matthew Clark
May 20th, 2016
A federal court just issued the most scorching smackdown of the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) I have ever seen.
Any time a federal judge calls the lawyers for a party “intentionally deceptive,” “unethical,” and accuses them of having “clearly misled both counsel for the Plaintiff States and the Court,” it’s worth taking notice. But when it’s done against the federal government’s lawyers (the Obama Administration’s lawyers) over the course of 28 searing pages of judicial excoriation, it is epic.
A few weeks ago I told you about the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ blistering takedown of the IRS and DOJ over the targeting of conservatives. It was awe-inspiring and rightly deserved. This new order from a federal district court in Texas takes it to the next level. It is by far the most scorching judicial repudiation of “intentionally deceptive,” “bad faith,” and “unethical” actions on the part of the federal government in this Administration.
More importantly, the court went further than a mere scolding, this order has serious teeth behind it, imposing six substantial and concrete penalties on the Obama Administration’s DOJ.
It literally reads as if this court were taking the DOJ out behind the woodshed, and for good reason.
...
The case concerns how the Obama Administration ignored the “rulebook” – the Constitution – in making its lawless Executive action on immigration, “chang[ing] the law” to grant legal status to four million illegal aliens. (This became known as the DHS directive.) The decision in that case is currently in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, but this order concerns the fact that the Obama Administration’s lawyers “knowingly” made “multiple misrepresentations” to the federal district court that the Administration’s scheme had not gone into effect. In fact, the Administration was “surreptitiously acting,” implementing the DHS directive in over 100,000 instances.
The court did not mince words in excoriating the Administration, the lawyers involved, and “unknown” leadership within the DOJ who authorized or failed to correct the intentional misleading of the court.
The entire opinion is a must read, but here are just a few snippets of the brilliant and at times breathtaking order...
continue reading
www.redstate.com/matthewclark/2016/05/20/federal-court-throws-rulebook-obama-intentionally-deceptive-doj-scorching-smackdown/
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