The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump’s inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under “extraordinary circumstances” before she embarked on a lobbying campaign last year that ensnared the president’s eldest son, members of Congress, journalists and State Department officials, according to court and Justice Department documents and interviews.
This revelation means it was the Obama Justice Department that enabled the newest and most intriguing figure in the Russia-Trump investigation to enter the country without a visa.
Later, a series of events between an intermediary for the attorney and the Trump campaign ultimately led to the controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr.
Just five days after meeting in June 2016 at Trump Tower with Trump Jr., Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Moscow attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya showed up in Washington in the front row of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Russia policy, video footage of the hearing shows.
She also engaged in a pro-Russia lobbying campaign and attended an event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., where Russian supporters showed a movie that challenged the underpinnings of the U.S. human rights law known as the Magnitsky Act, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has reviled and tried to reverse. (Read more from “DOJ Let Russian Lawyer Into the US” HERE)
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday it reached a settlement agreement with Panda Restaurant Group Inc., a chain of more than 1,800 Chinese-cuisine restaurants the DOJ accuses of discriminating against non-U.S. citizens in its hiring practices.
The deal resolves the department’s investigation into whether Panda Express discriminated against non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act, or INA, when verifying employees’ permission to work, according to a DOJ press release.
According to the DOJ investigation, Panda Express “unnecessarily required lawful permanent resident workers to re-establish their work authorization” when their green cards expired, “while not making similar requests to U.S. citizen workers when their documents expired.”
It was not clear from the press release what “documents” a U.S. citizen would have that could expire and need to be re-verified. WND called and emailed the DOJ press office Wednesday and did not get a return call.
The investigation also concluded that Panda Express “routinely required other non-U.S. citizen workers to produce immigration documents to reverify their ongoing work authorization despite evidence they had already provided sufficient documentation.” (Read more from “Popular US Restaurant Gets Massive Fine for Being Too Careful Not to Hire Illegals, DOJ Charged “Non-Citizen Discrimination” HERE)
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s letter detailing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) rationale for calling for the dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey is heavy on professional grievance.
The memo, submitted to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, strongly suggests that officials at the Justice Department felt Comey improperly assumed prerogatives that rightly belong to career prosecutors at DOJ, instigating a bureaucratic turf war that left department officials displeased.
The memo opens with Rosenstein’s conclusion that Comey’s press conference on July 5, 2016, where he announced he would not recommend criminal charges over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, “usurped” the authority of his superiors at the Justice Department.
The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General’s authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the FBI had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors. The Director now defends his decision by asserting that he believed Attorney General Loretta Lynch had a conflict. But the FBI Director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the Justice Department.
The use of terms like “usurp” and “supplant” are both arresting and telling, as is Rosenstein’s assertion that Comey effectively “assumed command” of DOJ. This section of the memo argues Comey’s public statements stripped DOJ officials of prosecutorial discretion. In disclosing legal conclusions to the public, the former director foreclosed a number of options for department officials, leaving them little choice but to decline to pursue a case against Clinton. What’s more, the memo also states it was improper for Comey, whose role is restricted to finding facts, to reach any legal conclusions in the first place. (Read more from “Comey Dismissal Memo Suggests Turf War Between DOJ, FBI” HERE)
Our country is filled with young Muslims attempting to join foreign terror networks. Our communities are full of criminal aliens and are also experiencing an uptick in violent crime. One would think the Department of Justice would be stretched thin and fully consumed by the endless criminal cases related to national security and public safety. Yet, in May the Justice Department focused its attention against the sovereign state of North Carolina and sued them for recognizing only those with male plumbing parts as males. Now, in their alacrity to get this issue settled, they have filed a motion for an injunction against HB2, the law that prevents local governments from allowing men into private female dressing rooms and bathrooms.
The day after Independence Day, DOJ Civil Rights attorneys filed a motion for an injunction with the Middle District of North Carolina. First, it’s worth noting that this motion is full of inaccuracies about HB2, as noted at length by local activist A.P. Dillon on her blog, such as its claim that the law requires someone to produce a birth certificate in order to use a public restroom. More importantly, this motion is built upon a legal theory that should raise the hair on anyone’s neck. The motion asserts that HB2’s dictates that only someone with a penis use the men’s room and one with lady parts use the lady’s room “impermissibly discriminates against transgender individuals based on sex stereotypes.”
Folks, pinch yourself for a minute and realize that this is not an Onion article or April Fool’s joke. Typically, I like to use absurd analogies to illustrate absurdities taking place in our government, but I can’t quite conjure up a metaphor that is more radical and absurd than the reality of our Justice Department codifying the most grotesque contortion of natural law and biology into law. One might offer the analogy of a white person claiming to be black for the purpose of obtaining affirmative action benefits (in itself unconstitutional), but trans-racism is not nearly as absurd as transgenderism. A white male has a lot more in common biologically with a black man than he does with a white female.
Taking this line of thought to its logical conclusion, why can’t any male say they feel like a woman for the purpose of obtaining a spot on a girls’ sports team? Or taking this to other areas of law, why can’t a non-lawyer say they feel like a lawyer today and be eligible to run for Attorney General or a judge in a given state? Why can’t I tell the cops in Maryland that I feel like I have a concealed carriers’ license and carry a gun in the [not so] Free State? Remember, as absurd as these suggestions sound, nothing is as immutable as sexuality.
Several former DOJ attorneys, including a former supervisor, also pointed out another disturbing observation. One of the attorneys who signed onto this lawsuit is Sean Keveney, who, from what I was told, was one of the few conservatives left at DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. One source told me that Keveney “wouldn’t have ever attached his name to something so despicable and contrary to his values as a transgender case built on a frivolous legal theory, but when you are around these people long enough, it looks like you lose your moral compass.” There was no reason for Keveney to lend his name to this lawsuit if he hadn’t begun drinking the Kool-Aid. This is the frog in the boiling water theory. No matter how extreme and destructive the legal profession becomes, even conservatives will acclimate themselves to the new “climate” and shred natural law, federalism, and bedrock values of civilization, much less a modicum of jurisprudence.
There are also a couple of other important observations worth mentioning:
DOJ purposely shopped this lawsuit to the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which has two Obama appointees. The original issue began in Charlotte, which is in the Western District and the capital is in the Eastern District. The Eastern District is also home to North Carolina State University, but they deliberately chose to go after the University of North Carolina, which is in the Middle District. What this shows is that there are enough lower courts that will agree to the most extreme legal theories of the Left that they always have a venue to enjoin every single common sense conservative law in every state. In this case, once they get a liberal district judge, it’s smooth sailing to the insufferable Fourth Circuit, which has already codified transgenderism. If you think merely adding one more conservative to the Supreme Court will solve our judicial problems, you are not paying attention.
The DOJ is going after a state for defining the most immutable nature of biology, but refuses to prosecute local officials who flagrantly violate immigration law, the one area of policy that was designed to be under federal control. Yesterday, all but two Democrats (who merely came along for the ride) voted to punish sanctuary cities.
Senate Republicans just debated the Justice Department funding bill on the Senate floor. Although they offered an entire week of debate over Democrat gun proposals, they found no time to vote on an amendment barring DOJ funds for any lawsuit against North Carolina.
When the colonial states agreed to declare independence from King George, could they ever have envisioned joining a federal union that would impose gender-bending tyranny on them, which violates the most literal sense of natural law of nature’s God? The ongoing social transformation without representation makes taxation without representation appear trivial. (For more from the author of “Obama’s DOJ Flushes Gender Sanity Down the Toilet” please click HERE)
The Senate may take steps to end a Justice Department slush fund that has channeled millions of dollars in banking settlements to outside organizations, including left-wing groups such as La Raza and NeighborWorks America.
Four Republican senators—James Lankford of Oklahoma, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Utah’s Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee—said they would introduce legislation Friday to prohibit federal settlement agreements that require donations to third parties.
The Justice Department currently allows corporations found guilty of wrongdoing to pay a portion of their financial penalty as a donation to certain preapproved nonprofit groups.
“In 2011, the Department of Justice directed $30 million from a banking settlement to go toward left-leaning nonprofit groups,” Lankford’s office wrote in a press release, “like the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and NeighborWorks America.”
Conservative opponents of the practice charge that it not only bankrolls liberal groups, but also circumvents congressional authority. Lankford called it the “definition of abuse.”
“When the Department of Justice agrees to settlements on behalf of the U.S. government that includes financial penalties,” Lankford said in the four senators’ release, “it is not their job to force penalty money to be paid in the form of donations to third parties of their choice.”
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, banks found guilty for their role in inflating the mortgage bubble paid millions in penalties. In some cases the Justice Department would allow donations to third parties to be counted twice toward their fine.
While collecting billions, the Justice Department is able to collect a fee of up to a 3 percent to pay for processing debt litigation. A majority staff report commissioned by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., revealed that the Justice Department had collected $575.7 million in fees from JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup.
Hatch said in the release:
Settlement payments should be used to redress harm, not line the pockets of groups that government lawyers happen to favor. This bill will prevent the Department of Justice from continuing to treat settlement agreements as a source of free money for pet projects.
“The Department of Justice is supposed to work for all Americans, not just whichever special interests are favored by whoever is currently in this White House,” Lee said in the release.
The legislation mirrors a similar bill introduced by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The House version is expected to come up for a vote before the end of June.
Goodlatte introduced a similar measure as an amendment to last year’s omnibus spending package. It was stripped out of the bill when it advanced to the Senate.
As a stand-alone piece of legislation, though, it’s unclear whether Lankford’s bill could reach the 60 votes necessary to achieve what’s known in the Senate as cloture and advance for a vote. (For more from the author of “Senators Ready Bill to Stop DOJ From Bankrolling Liberal Groups” please click HERE)
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In 2014, Attorney General Eric Holder invited attorneys-general across America to not defend laws banning same-sex “marriage” if they could not do so in good conscience, stating that he would not have defended segregation laws in the past if he had been required to.
This pattern continued when the DOJ petitioned the Supreme Court to redefine marriage in the Obergefell v. Hodges case last year to the point that current Attorney General Loretta Lynch issued a congratulatory statement on June 26, 2015, after the Court took it upon itself to change the very definition of marriage.
Lynch closed her statement with these words: “The Justice Department is proud to have been a part of this journey, from Attorney General Eric Holder’s unwavering leadership in advancing the cause of equality to the groundbreaking progress we have witnessed today. Going forward, we are committed to standing on the side of equality — and standing with the LGBT community — to keep up the fight for safety, opportunity, dignity and justice for all.”
What the DOJ has now made clear is that in its aggressive solidarity with the LGBT community, it will wage war against the rights of everyone else. Be aware and be on guard, conservative Americans and people of faith. The DOJ might soon be targeting you.
This past Wednesday, May 4th, “U.S. Justice Department officials repudiated North Carolina’s House Bill 2 on Wednesday, telling Gov. Pat McCrory that the law violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and Title IX — a finding that could jeopardize billions in federal education funding.” In the typical fashion of bullies, the DOJ’s letter gave North Carolina five days to respond “by confirming that the State will not comply with or implement HB2.”
Should North Carolina refuse to bow to this pressure, it could risk losing $4.5 billion in federal aid to its 17 universities, all because the state ruled that men should not be able to use women’s locker rooms and bathrooms in public facilities.
Talk about an outrageous example of government overreach. Talk about Big Brother in action.
In response, Gov. Pat McCrory said to North Carolina business leaders that the DOJ letter is “something we’ve never seen regarding Washington overreach in my lifetime. “This is no longer just a N.C. issue. This impacts every state, every university and almost every employee in the United States of America. All those will have to comply with new definitions of requirements by the federal government regarding restrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities in both the private and public sector.”
Lt. Gov. Dan Forest had even stronger words for the Obama administration, saying, “To use our children and their educational futures as pawns to advance an agenda that will ultimately open those same children up to exploitation at the hands of sexual predators is, by far, the sickest example of the depths the … administration will stoop to (to) ‘fundamentally transform our nation.’”
As for Title IX, which the Department of Education (DOE) claims requires schools to allow transgender-identified students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity rather than their biological sex, a new lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Thomas More Society demolishes this faulty reasoning — the very reasoning that is behind the DOJ’s attack on North Carolina.
The suit has been filed “in federal court against School District 211 and the Department of Education (DOE) on behalf of 51 district families who rightly claim that the district and the Department of Education ‘trample students’ privacy’ rights and create an ‘intimidating and hostile environment’ for girls who are being forced to share the girls locker room and restrooms with a boy who wishes he were a girl.”
In the words of ADF Legal Counsel Matt Sharp, “No government agency can unilaterally redefine the meaning of a federal law to serve its own political ends. The Department of Education is exceeding what it is legally and constitutionally allowed to do. In fact, at least five other federal and state courts have rejected the DOE’s interpretation of Title IX.”
It is critical that these matters be pressed in the courts, and we need to publicize this new lawsuit as loudly and widely as we can. Justice and sanity and common sense and fairness must prevail, otherwise the nation will completely unravel. And while these cases are being litigated, it is imperative that families, schools, churches, businesses, cities, and states stand up to the bullies and expose their illicit tactics. Only then will the bullies back down.
In my 2011 book A Queer Thing Happened to America, I devoted more than 50 pages and 138 endnotes to the topic of “Big Brother Is Watching and He Really Is Gay,” noting that, “The really frightening thing is that it would be easy to write an entire book focusing on the subject matter of this chapter alone, and the book could be much longer than this present book — and this is one long [700 page] book!”
Just four years later, in Outlasting the Gay Revolution, I cited scores more examples, noting that here too I was only scratching the surface. What is coming next?
This much is sure. With the DOJ’s latest actions, we can safely say that we have moved from “Big Brother Is Watching and He Really Is Gay” to “Big Brother Is Taking Action, He’s Radically Pro-Gay, and He’s Coming Your Way.”
To be forewarned is to be fore-equipped. (For more from the author of “When the DOJ (Department of Justice) Became the DOGA (Department of Gay Activism)” please click HERE)
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A Justice Department program used to gather data from U.S. cellphones apparently has a secret partner: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The CIA played a role in helping the U.S. Marshals Service develop technology that imitates cellphone towers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The system, used on airplanes, allows federal agents to scoop up identifying and location information for thousands of cellphones in every sweep.
The spy agency’s role in the so-called “dirtbox” program was previously unknown, and is considered unusual, given that the CIA is banned from most domestic spying operations . . .
Development of the “dirtbox” devices began approximately 10 years ago when the CIA arranged for the Marshals Service to receive money to conduct surveillance, the Journal reported. The two groups worked together for years to develop the technology, versions of which are used overseas to track terror suspects. (Read more from “CIA Aided Program to Spy on US Cellphones” HERE)
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The Justice Department will pay $134,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who was impersonated online by a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer without her knowledge.
The settlement was revealed in a court filing made available on Tuesday. It was first reported by the Associated Press.
The woman, Sondra Arquiett, was arrested as part of a drug case in 2010. An agent with the DEA used her name and images from her phone to create a sham Facebook profile designed to target others they suspected were involved in the case while she was awaiting trial. (Read more about the DEA’s fake Facebook profile HERE)
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Photo Credit: Newsmax A press official at the Department of Justice attempted to coordinate the leak of documents concerning the IRS targeting scandal with Democratic staffers, but accidentally called the wrong office, according to House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa.
The official, which both Breitbart News and The Hill identified as Brian Fallon, called Oversight Friday afternoon.
The staffer who picked up the phone answered “Oversight Press,” according to Issa’s letter, which was sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday.
Thinking he had reached the office of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic ranking member of the oversight committee, Fallon said that the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs would not okay the release of the documents, but that he was eager to do so anyway “before the Majority” – Issa’s office – could do so.
According to Issa’s letter, the documents concerned former Justice Department attorney Andrew Strelka, who worked with IRS Exempt Director Lois Lerner, who has been accused of unfairly targeting conservative groups.
The Department of Justice has announced that it is suing the small town of St. Anthony, Minnesota, after a two-year investigation into the town’s denial of a permit to create an Islamic cultural center.
The DOJ claims that the north Minneapolis town broke a federal law when it rejected the center in 2012.
“An injustice has been done,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said on August 27. “I will not stand by while any religious group is subject to unconstitutional treatment that violates federal civil rights laws.”
The DOJ claims that the city violated the law when it refused the Abu Huraira Islamic Center the right to create an Islamic cultural center in the basement of the St. Anthony Business Center. The DOJ cites a violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act that was enacted in the year 2000.
In his press conference, Luger said that if local voters rose up to force their politicians to allow the Islamic center to be established and follow his interpretation of the law he would consider withdrawing the lawsuit.
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