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The Department of Justice under President Barack Obama’s watch has involved itself more with pushing an ideological agenda than enforcing the nation’s laws, according to attorneys speaking at the Republican National Lawyers Association’s annual National Policy Conference in Washington.

M. Edward Whelan III, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative nonprofit, started off the discussion titled “The Rule of Law versus The Obama Justice Department” by outlining his view of the “administration’s malfeasance” and the “DOJ’s sabotage” of the Defense of Marriage Act . . . .

In terms of national defense, the problem does not stem from the Justice Department’s refusal to defend the law but rather is the result of a pattern within the administration to take action without an explanation as to the legal precedent that gives them the authority to do so. . . .

A former DOJ voting section attorney, J. Christian Adams, said that Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has stacked the deck in favor of Democrats by hiring lawyers who have previously worked with far-left organizations like the Junta for Progressive Action. This selective hiring has permeated the voting section to the degree that Obama election posters graced the walls of the section’s office space even after a memo was distributed instructing employees to remove them, he said. . . . “

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