Author Archives: J Christian Adams

Another sad day for DOJ lawyer misconduct

Most DOJ lawyers aren’t crooks.  Some are.  (Stay tuned for a big PJ Media story about more lawlessness inside DOJ when it comes to voting issues).  If you had any doubt that some inside DOJ are totally corrupt – and that Office of Professional Responsibility runs interference for them – read this court opinion from this week.

The long opinion relates to DOJ lawyer misconduct in the criminal case against New Orleans police officers arising out of Hurricane Katrina.  The case was brought by the US Attorney in New Orleans and the Civil Rights Division at DOJ. 

At page 33, the court makes clear what he thinks of the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility’s ability to handle DOJ lawyer misconduct.  The judge shares the opinion I expressed in this piece at PJ Media, “The Justice Department Fix is In,” involving to the OPR on the New Black Panther dismissal. 

Over the last few years, I have met numerous statewide and federal elected officials who fully understand that when they are dealing with the Eric Holder Justice Department, particularly the Civil Rights Division, they are not dealing with honest brokers – and sometimes outright rouges.  It seems members of the federal bench are also starting to get the message.

Of course you can read extensive details about more lawyer misconduct at DOJ, some of it costing millions of dollars in sanctions, in my book Injustice.

Filling out your Christmas list with Injustice

Injustice continues to sell well 14 months after release.  Why?  Because it makes a great Christmas present of course.  If you haven’t read it and want to learn about the rot and crime that affects American elections, and the paltry response of law enforcement, grab a copy today.  Link over there on the left, <——-

Way down the page you can see the sales tracker for 4 election-related books.  If you already read Injustice, you might check out Who’s Counting by Fund and von Spakovsky.

“Learning from the Election”

 Victor Davis Hanson:

“Romney was supposedly the new Andrew Johnson who would wreck civil rights in the way the latter undermined Reconstruction. The point was not that Democrats believed any of this racialism, but that it prepped the campaign battlefield to prevent Romney, as it had prevented McCain, from running the sort of bare-knuckles campaigns that Ronald Reagan had run against Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush had run against Michael Dukakis, and George W. Bush had run against John Kerry. The fact that “Racist! Racist!” is now a broken record — Eric Holder gets into hot water over his knowledge of Fast and Furious and suddenly his auditors are racists; Susan Rice misleads the country and suddenly her critics are racists and sexists — does not mean that it does not work in deterring critics. A white liberal can all but destroy Condoleezza Rice or Alberto Gonzalez and feel very liberal, but a peep about Barack Obama or Susan Rice from a white male is akin to a KKK slur. The next Republican candidate must be ready to reply to all sorts of false charges and to make them rebound on the accusers.”

New NAACP LDF Leader rewind: Calling Ft. Hood Terrorism “Premature and Irresponsible”

A reader with a background in national security issues sends this link about the recently appointed new head of the NAACP-LDF, Sherrilyn Ifill.  She wrote at the time:

“To call it terrorism is to deliberately press a million buttons that we know will trigger very particular, and perhaps inappropriate responses. It’s premature and irresponsible to deliberately push those buttons while the investigation into this tragedy is still in its very early stages. . . . Our most pressing concern right now should be honoring the dead and the living by safeguarding against a similar incident happening in the future. For now, that means taking a clear-eyed view of what happened and recognizing that Maj. Hasan did not commit these murders because he was Muslim — anymore that those who murder abortion doctors do it because they are Christian. He committed these murders because he’d had some kind of mental collapse that was undetected by those around him.”

Perhaps Ifill eventually amended her assessment, which I am happy to republish here if someone sends it, but I wasn’t able to find it.

Transgender Credit Card Felon Wins NH State House Seat

This story is too much.



“I am sorry for the people that can’t let my past go,” she wrote on her public Facebook page.

I suppose some let the past go easier than others.

In addition to the conspiracy to commit fraud charges, Laughton was charged with slashing the tires of a neighbor’s car in 2006. The same year, Laughton reportedly admitted that she faked illness to gain an ambulance ride for herself and her now ex-wife, Lisa Laughton, also a Gate City selectman, from Weirs Beach back toward their home.


Laughton’s felony conviction stems from a 2007 incident, the Laconia Daily Sun reported Saturday, when Laughton and her ex-wife reportedly opened a credit card in a former neighbor’s name, using it to purchase electronics and pay bills.


Laughton was indicted on one felony count of conspiracy to commit fraudulent use of a credit card; one count of conspiracy to commit identity fraud; and one count of falsifying physical evidence, for disposing two computers, two cellphones and a printer after learning of the police investigation.