What Other Federal Judges Need to Know about the Civil Rights Division


This week, United States District Judge Kurt Englehardt wrote a 129 page indictment of the Justice Department, and particularly the Civil Rights Division.  The opinion documents the dishonest, unethical and disturbing conduct of both Civil Rights Division lawyers, but also the Deputy Attorney General’s office in influencing a series of reports to the court in the New Orleans case.

What federal judges need to know is that the misconduct documented by the Civil Rights Division in the Danziger bridge case this week is just one of many examples. There are many other examples of Civil Rights Division employees lying, stealing, perjuring and misrepresenting the facts and the law. 

Some of the same anonymous blogging that occurred during the New Orleans trial by Civil Rights Division staff has occurred in other contexts, as documented by the DOJ Inspector General here.  This is but one similarity between the lawlessness in New Orleans and longstanding behavior by Civil Rights Division lawyers.

I will soon have a much longer article detailing this long history of misconduct by Civil Rights Division staff and lawyers – some of which is already documented in my book Injustice.

Right now a series of questionable cases are before federal courts.  Consider this one.  The Justice Department is suing, get ready, to force apartments to accept “emotional support animals.”  These are not seeing eye dogs.  These are animals such as hamsters and ferrets to give tenants emotional support, even if the apartment has a no pet policy, or a pet deposit policy.

So if you are a federal judge, or a clerk to a federal judge – recognize that Judge Englehardt’s crushing exposure of DOJ misconduct is but one of a long train of abuses.  The public at large has a right to a catalog of the long train of abuses, lies, thefts and misstatements of the law and facts.  Stay tuned.

Voter Fraud in Maryland: Guilty

A great example of how dirty voter rolls lead to voter fraud:

“A Frederick County woman pleaded guilty to voter fraud after she was charged with signing her dead mother’s name on an absentee ballot in the 2012 presidential election, the state prosecutor’s office announced Thursday.

Elsie Virginia Schildt, 46, was sentenced to probation before judgment and ordered to perform 40 hours of community service in the first 120 days of her probation.”

More trouble in Motor City: Three Hamtramck men charged with felony voter fraud



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“Salim Ahmed, 50, Armani Asad, 33, and Mohammed Russell, 32 are accused of possessing and returning multiple absentee ballots during Hamtramck’s August primary election.


 


“It is a felony to possess or return absentee ballots unless you are the person voting, the voter’s family member, a mail carrier, or an authorized official.”

If found guilty, the three face up to five years in prison and/or a $1000 fine, stiff penalties whose deterrent effects are diminished by the fact that they are rarely imposed.


Texas Secretary of State focused on voter ID education not politics

Texas Secretary of State John Steen said Wednesday in Waco that he isn’t focused on the politics of the Voter Identification Law, but educating the public about the new requirement to present photo ID in order to vote.  “I think voting is a sacred right, so I’m working very hard to make sure everybody who is eligible to vote is able to cast their vote and have their vote counted,” he said.  Steen spoke Wednesday to a group of about 20 local officials from Waco and surrounding cities to educate them about how to administer the upcoming changes.  Link

Justice for Tom Delay years later – conviction from political prosecution overturned

The conviction of former House Majority Leader Tom Delay is overturned.  It is a shame that Justice was delayed for so long.  There should be checks and balances to these types of political prosecutions by eccentric District Attorneys trying to keep their name in the paper.  In this case, the only check and balance was the Texas Court of Appeals.  

Another example of Injustice perpetrated by progressives in the name of campaign finance regulation.

Wisconsin Rep. Sensenbrenner wants to give Dept of Justice the power to stop Wisconsin Voter ID and other election laws

Despite public popularity and legal stamp of approval from the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other advocacy groups continue to sue states over legitimate voter ID laws.  The Voting Rights Act already allows groups to sue if they believe the law violates civil rights. For example, the Advancement Project is suing Wisconsin over its photo ID law under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.  

Congressman Sensenbrenner is working against his own state’s voter ID bill.  The lawsuits are apparently not enough for him.  Sensenbrenner wants to go one step further and adopt a new coverage formula under Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act to require states, including presumably Wisconsin, to submit every election or voting change to the federal government with the right of the DOJ to simply administratively object to the election law.    

Despite the Supreme Court weighing in and affirming photo ID, the DOJ has already made up its mind to oppose these photo ID laws at every turn.  Of course, Sensenbrenner knows this.  That is why he called Attorney General Holder to voice his displeasure over a Section 2 lawsuit against the voter ID bill in Texas.  The lawsuit revealed Holder’s true intent to the public.  Sensenbrenner knows that Holder, if given the opportunity and power, would promptly file a Section 5 objection to the Wisconsin photo ID law.  Yet he persists in giving Holder this additional power over Wisconsin.

It is remarkable that  Representative Sensenbrenner would want to give the federal government a veto over Wisconsin voting laws, including important issues such as photo ID, redistricting and the other proposed reforms recently offered by his fellow state Republicans. 

“DOJ Lawyer Karla Dobinski’s Misconduct Sends Police Officers to Prison”

PJ Media:

“What does it take for an employee to get fired in Eric Holder’s Justice Department Civil Rights Division?


Certainly perjury doesn’t do it.   Neither does using a government credit cards to book airfare for romantic liaisons with a Miami girlfriend. That just gets you a nice buyout.  Wanting to use civil rights laws to only protect black victims of discrimination?  Ho hum.  The culture of lawlessness is so pervasive at the Civil Rights Division, that a former Voting Section Chief felt comfortable telephoning current DOJ employees and suggesting they turn over confidential memos because they were worth cash. (Page 145 for details).


Now we learn that that an attorney in the infamous and lawless Civil Rights Division was engaging in clandestine blogging at a major newspaper in order to help convict New Orleans police officers in a matter which she was assigned.

Enter Karla Dobinski, DOJ Civil Rights Division lawyer by day and secret blogger by night.  Dobinski was blogging in the comments at newspaper websites and anonymously polluting the atmosphere about the cases against New Orleans police officers on which she was working.”