Today’s paragraphs come to us from David French, writing for nationalreviewonline.com. They concern a ruling by a sitting federal judge – which, if mainstream media had any integrity, would have been among the lead stories in the news this week.
Think I’m overstating? Let me show you:
In one of the most stinging court opinions I’ve ever read, federal district judge Andrew Hanon blasted Department of Justice officials for misleading the court during the course of executive amnesty litigation. What did the DOJ do? Here are the court’s words:
In summary, this Court and opposing counsel were misled both in writing and in open court on multiple occasions as to when the Defendants would begin to implement the Secretary’s 2014 DHS Directive establishing the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (“DAPA”) program and amending the DACA program. Opposing counsel and this Court were assured that no action would be taken implementing the 2014 DHS Directive until February 18, 2015. Counsel for the Government made these assurances on the record on December 19, 2014, and in open court on January 15, 2015. Similar misrepresentations were made in pleadings filed on January 14, 2015, [Doc. No. 90 at 3] and even after the injunction issued, on February 23, 2015. [Doc. No. 150]. For example, on February 23, 2015, the Government lawyers wrote that: “DHS was to begin accepting requests for modified DACA on February 18, 2015.”5 [Doc. No. 150 at 7]. This representation was made despite the fact that in actuality the DHS had already granted or renewed over 100,000 modified DACA applications using the 2014 DHS Directive.
In other words, the Obama administration launched its executive amnesty program behind the court’s back, and lied about it — ultimately granting lawful residence to more than 100,000 illegal immigrants until the court halted the program with an injunction. If the government had told the truth, the state plaintiffs (including Texas) would have been able to seek a temporary restraining order to attempt to block the program. The judge was furious:
Such conduct is certainly not worthy of any department whose name includes the word “Justice.”7 Suffice it to say, the citizens of all fifty states, their counsel, the affected aliens and the judiciary all deserve better.
Here is a federal judge calling the “Justice Department”, headed by the Attorney General of the United States – the chief law enforcement officer of the United States – a bunch of liars….and telling us exactly why.
If that isn’t major news, what is?
There are two reasons that David French wins Paragraphs Of The Day honors.
One is that this segment of his essay (and the rest, every bit as devastating, which you can read by clicking here) is so important.
The other is that it again shows how diligently those media work to keep this kind of news from the general public…and, by so doing, protect the people they favor.
When I googled “Judge Andrew Hanon Justice Department and looked at the first three pages, other than CNN and the New York Times (credit to them both), there was virtually nothing from any mainstream source. Certainly not NBC, CBS or ABC.
Keep ’em ignorant and you own ’em.
Isn’t this the case where the judge has ordered that the DoJ lawyers must attend ethics classes before going into court on this matter again???
Had I followed Ken’s advice before commenting I would have gotten my answer.
In response, the court ordered the DOJ to provide lists of each affected illegal alien in each of the plaintiff states, required each DOJ attorney who practices in each of the plaintiff states to take additional legal ethics courses for a period of five years, and ordered the Attorney General to produce a comprehensive plan for ensuring that similar misconduct will not occur in the future. The court did not have the power to disbar the individual lawyers who made the misrepresentations, but it did revoke their permission to appear in the case.