Federal Court: DOJ Must Reimburse South Carolina for Voter ID Folly
A federal court has ruled that South Carolina was the prevailing party in the unnecessary Voter ID litigation, and therefore the Justice Department is liable for paying the state’s costs. South Carolina spent $3,500,000 to obtain federal court approval of the state’s Voter ID law as non-discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act. The lawsuit was made necessary only because of the political and ideological radicalism of Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez and his deputy Matthew Colangelo.
AAG Tom Perez
PJ Media had this exclusive report detailing that career Voting Section employees, including Voting Section Chief Chris Herren, recommended that the Voter ID law be approved in the first place by DOJ after a careful written analysis inside the Voting Section. Documents prepared by the career staff urged Perez and Colangelo to grant administrative approval to the South Carolina Voter ID law — but they refused. Their refusal was, in part, designed to energize a moribund political base heading into the 2012 election. The cost to the American taxpayers for their stunt will be significant.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office was quick to respond to the court’s ruling late yesterday:
“The state Attorney General’s Office blamed the U.S. Department of Justice for the high cost of the case. They accused the federal government of delaying the case by 120 days by filing numerous frivolous motions, including challenging the 12-point font size on a document the state filed.
“The Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., bears responsibility for the litigation costs,” said Mark Powell, Wilson’s spokesman. “The decision was so emphatic, even the Department of Justice and Interveners did not appeal it. South Carolina was forced to pay a hefty price because a handful of Washington insiders refused to do the right thing.”
Whether Congress will hold Perez and Colangelo accountable remains to be seen. Members of Congress, including Senator Lindsey Graham, have already demanded that Perez turn over the documents about which PJ Media first reported on September 11, 2012. So far, sources tell me that Graham has not received what he has asked for, though he may already possess the documents from other sources.
Tellingly, DOJ has not denied that such internal approval memos exist. They can’t.
All of this raises the question — will Perez and Colangelo be held accountable for what amounted to an expensive use of the Justice Department to energize President Obama’s political base? As we now know, there was no merit to the objection. A federal court approved the law. The many career staff who looked at it said the South Carolina law did not discriminate.
Congress might get answers if they haul DOJ Voting Section Chief Christopher Herren before the House Judiciary Committee for answers. The Democrats could hardly object — after all, they dragged Bush-era Voting Section Chief John Tanner before the Democrat-run House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about Georgia Voter ID. There is precedent. Democrats could hardly object when the Voting Section Chief during the Bush administration was made to dance the dance before the Committee.
Chris Herren
Of course, had the president’s base remained asleep, Perez and Colangelo would be looking for work, with the former earning a slippery reputation over the last four years. MORE ON PAGE TWO.
Perez and Colangelo will be held accountable … GOP will go for the throat on this one!
Dream on the GOP will do nothing more than bark like little lap dogs with maybe a little nip at an ankle. Look at the Libya mess with the real question as to whether the administration ordered people to stand down and let the Americans be killed what is the pressing concern for the senate, they are flustered by Rice claiming it was a demonstration. Congressional GOP are for the most part a group of feckless, neutered whelps worried about rocking the boat too much and in so doing drawing the ire of MSNBC.
What would you two political geniuses have the Republicans in Congress do? They’re in the minority in the Senate which means they have no power to do anything but try to get on the media and whine or try to filibuster appropriations to the offending agencies or Presidential appointees, both of which get them trashed by the MSM and thus the bulk of the electorate. In the House, they can have committee hearings, they can cite Junta officials for contempt, and they can cut the budget. Committee hearings just get the jeered at by the media and since all most Americans hear is the jeering, they thing the Republicans are just picking on these selfless public servants for partisan political reasons and out of spite for having lost the presidential election. They have no way to enforce the contempt except through a long, drawn-out court battle. If they cut the budget, some clerks get laid off, not the bad guys.
The only remedies for Executive Branch malfeasance are criminal prosecution, which the Administration won’t do to its own, impeachment, which the Democrat controlled Senate will thwart, or electoral defeat, and they’ve survived the election. As I discus below, it really is up to the states controlled by Republicans to try to rein in these miscreants, but that will come at a terrible price for the states that take them on.
Simply because they have few options does not mean we should be content when they roll onto their backs and play submissive lap dog. It matters not what they do they are going to be savaged by the media regardless, in which case you may as well try to draw some blood in the process. Look at who is held up as going to get tough McCain, Graham, McConnell the three stooges RINOs all who only talk tough now because of the threat of the tea party during primaries. Hopefully Graham will be defeated in his next election.
“What would you two political geniuses have the Republicans in Congress do?”
That’s funny right there; I don’t care who you are, that’s funny!
I guess I’m expecting too much, from an entity with a reputation for waving the white flag … but at the very least I hope that there is someone within the GOP that can go public with this in whatever way is viable. I bet very few people even in SC even know about these two crooks and their pathetic excuse of a DOJ agenda. I do believe that we’ve reached the tipping point with lawlessness and its acceptance as normal … justice is coming … kinda like the Tombstone movie.
I think you are correct. The US is at a tipping point.
It’s too late crackers, we already won the election!
LMBAO!
I wish you were correct, but as we have seen, the Republicans have no stones.
GOP lacks the intelligence and nerve to “Go for the throat” They have become a bunch of mini democrats. Quitters with no goals. Quicker to surrender than the French army.
They suck…BAD!
Democrats are worse yet.
It will be interesting to see where our leaders lead us to.
Nope, they won’t – unfortunately the “Reds” don’t have the ba lls really get after the blues.
This is not really about GOP vs. Democrats, It’s about State and Local rights (powers) vs. Federal power.
That’s were the fight will be to fix our country.
The GOP has no problem using the force of the Federal government to force it’s will on the States (the people).
We have a one party system with two heads, they work together to consolidate power at the federal level. The complete opposite of what was intended when this country was founded.
GOP will continue to kneel before Obama and his czars, Boehner will weep, and Graham will bend over as he queerly always does… SSDD.
You’re a ratter, Bulldog Adams, and I mean that as a high compliment; you’re like my old Boston Terrier, working the towel between his teeth until it was good and dead, and no distraction able to make him stop until he killed it good. But terrier or bulldog, keep up the great work, you and Andrew McCarthy — our country desperately needs you — to ferret out the rats and expose them as the pernicious characters they are. Now if we just had someone in the right places, courageous and fearless, to apply some searing heat to the tails of miscreants Perez and Colangelo.
…”for what amounted to an expensive use of the Justice Department to energize President Obama’s political base”…should read “only a piddling little bit of the taxpayers money”…you know what they say , anything less than a billion nowadays is chump change
Tell that to the hundreds of people that comprised the people who paid for it.
I seem to recall a First Amendment case out in CA wherein an administrator was personally assessed attorney’s fees after trying to squelch public housing protesters with a threat to find them in violation of the fair housing laws. Now that would get the DOJ guys attention.
Thank you for all the time and hard work you have put into getting the word out on the DOJ. I have read your book “Injustice” and admire you greatly. Please know there are folks like me following you and your work to bring about the changes necessary to make everyone accountable under our system of laws – especially at the DOJ which is the arm of the Constitution supposedly dedicated to being the most law-abiding and the department entrusted with enforcing our laws. Keep up the good work.
Agree! Please keep up your super work Mr. Adams!
The Democrats could hardly object….
Wanna bet?
*sigh*
We will see.
Though this will cost taxpayers, it is among the few federal expenses that clearly reflect the light of reason. Thanks, your honor; may we have another?
Sure. After the election. When it no longer matters. Guess they can afford to be generous.
I don’t have any intrinsic problem with political appointees overuling career employees; I had my fair share of “me boss, you not” conversations with my merit system subordinates. That said, when I did it, and especially if I did it out of political considerations, I knew that there were lines I couldn’t cross or I was tempting an Ethics Act complaint or a lawsuit for my abuse of discretion. Under my state’s laws I enjoyed immunity so long as my actions were within the scope of my job, but if I went outside the scope, as an abuse of discretion would be, I was on my own for the liability. The Department of Law had shown itself more than willing to refuse to defend or indemnify employees on a showing that they had acted outside the scope of their duties and in a few instances courts had acted to find employees and officers personally liable even when the State had accepted responisbility for their actions. The controlling authority on that issue under our law was a State Supreme Court decision in which a merit system employee with explicit ministerial authority failed to exercise that authority by carrying out the illegal directive of a political appointee in firing an employee without cause. The court found the political appointee liable for telling the employee to do it and the merit system employee liable for not exercising her authority to refuse the order. I felt some sympathy for the merit system employee but she was taking the money for a position a level or two below political appointees and if you have one of those positions you’ll face lots of situations where you ask yourself, “is this the one I quit or get fired over.” It comes with the territory.
Could not the State of South Carolina seek damages from these appointees for their abuse of discretion? Couldn’t the Junta’s indemnification of them be pierced by a court? I assume a whistleblower “purloined” the documents and leaked them to Graham who’s now trying to get them through FOIA both to legitimize having them and to protect the source. If the State of SC sued or charged these appointees, would the leaked documents be admissible if, as might be expected, the Junta refused to cooperate with discovery. The states really need to start agressively suing and bringing criminal charges where possible against federal employees for ultra vires actions. The cabinet officers and probably their direct reports are untouchable in this corrupt administration so employees who carry out their directives need to be given the German Choice. I always found public employees to be very, very reasonable people when given adequate information. “Tell me something useful or I’m going to put you in jail” is almost always adequate information. Unfortunately the Congress can’t say that and federal law enforcement won’t say it, so it is up to the states.
Short of throwing the perps of this abuse of power in jail for a goodly stretch I doubt you are going to curb the enthusiasm this administration has for using appointed office holders for campaigning efforts. And that is what this case boiled down to – getting the base revved up in front of the election. Too bad the conservative base didn’t get revved up. These jokers would all have been looking for gainful employment in a few weeks.
Four more years – what a depressing thought!
I doubt there has ever been an administration at any level of government that didn’t use its appointees for political/campaign purposes, but there are limits to it and if holding a state hostage for campaign purposes doesn’t exceed the limit, it should.
You raise good points. Usually, when bad “decisions” come down from an agency it’s by an individual(s). Some actual person is involved, someone’s name on the memo or signing off on the policy. Example, Susan Rice testifying she was given ‘talking points.” Given by who? There is a name somewhere. Threaten her with jail time for obstruction if she doesn’t give up that person. Then go to whomever gave her the “talking points” do the same thing until you get to the brain child. Follow the trail as high up and under as many rocks as one needs to. The bureaucrats are easier but if you use the criminal justice system, filing charges in federal courts, Federal Marshall’s Office, RICO, aiding and abetting, misappropriation, they (even elected officials) can, eventually, be brought down. Under RICO, a person who is a member of an enterprise that has committed any two of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering. Nothing to say a Federal Agency can’t be considered an enterprise.
I’m sure inside the Beltway, there’s a lot of work to be done.
At last, someone is attempting to expose and punish the Obama dictatorship. Albert
Where does DOJ’s money come from to reimburse SC?
Where did the money come from to finance DOJ’s frivolous lawsuit to perpetuate voters fraud in a once-thought-to-be close election?
Where did the money come from for SC to defend itself in DOJ’s lawsuit to support voters fraud?
Obama has trillions of tax revenues to spend to suppress the opposition, and not a cent of spendings to cut.
“DOJ must reimburse South Carolina”? I am not trying to be a wet blanket, but where does this DOJ money come from? Do you think anybody involved here feels badly? Once again, the taxpayers get screwed, and the perpetrators skate. This behavior will not change until the INDIVIDUALS responsible are prosecuted and punished…real punishment, not the traditional fake wrist slap. You are correct, Mr. Adams, their behavior will not change. We have three branches of government, apparently none of which contain any officials with the courage to do their jobs.
obama will have to borrow an additional 3 million from the chinese, that is all.
It’s a recipe for disaster when so much power is given to so little people.
Literally, it would be few people. Figuratvely, these people are very petty and small, so your phrase stands correct.
What can you expect from an administration whose face man, the President, spends three million dollars to fly from Hawaii to DC and back again, just for a media event? How many “middle class families”(TM) earn three million dollars in their entire lives?
as a representative of the DOJ, there would not be any personal liability. As to SC suing for damages, it comes out of our pockets…you can turn me upside down and shake the change out of my pockets, right now about 47 cents, but a few million? just a shrug of the shoulders to this admin.
Not a bit. Neither would any criminal liability attach to the behavior.
Federal employees do not enjoy absolute immunity. Now whether this conduct was sufficiently egregious to pierce their qualified immunity, I don’t know because the bar is high, too high I believe. I think it imperative that some of these miscreants and the people who do their bidding pay a personal price.
Great work dogging these zealots.
Keep trying to suppress the vote, GOPers. Let Americans know what you’re REALLY all about!
Except the federal court rejected your presumption.
And you Dems continue to show what you’re all about- willing to cheat to steal an election. Most Americans hold a low opinion of thieves. Chicago-on-the-Potomac is a den of thieves but you’ll soon find out what’s in store. We’re about to cut off Obama’s tail by repossessing his Thunderbird.
“The vote” doesn’t include illegals, those convicted of felonies, fictional persons, and the dead. “Suppressing” them is not a crime; it’s a duty.
Remember the international observers you clowns brought in for the last election? They were horrified there was no ID requirement across most of the country.
It is instructive that The Retard did not win any state with voter ID in place.
On the other hand we could do as Iraq. Then after the election Republicans could wave their purple finger in the air and democrats/communist could wave all ten of their purple fingers.
Except you and yours are not Americans. The Retard was re-elected by marxists, racists, and parasites. None of which I consider American.
Perhaps one day, and one day soon maybe, you and your un-American comrades , replete with your massive voter fraud will feel the true wrath of real Americans.
Typical liberal bullshiite. If preventing illegals from voting democrap is discrimination (in your rectal world I suppose it is), then I’m all for it.
Continued documentation that the DOJ is nothing more than an arm of the Dem Party and the NAACP. Fighting non-existent racism by using racism and corruption – great. These people think of themselves as the good guys for reasons that escape logic and morality.
What Reagan said of Communists is also true of Democrats: they recognize no morality beyond what will advance their cause. Leftism is the alpha and omega for these heathens, so we shouldn’t put anything past them.
Wake up folks. Perez – from Mexico? Machismo Latinos. Always useless. Always liars. Always wrong. In day-to-day life, not at the exalted level of DOJ executive, it is the goal of every Latino to be recognized as a VICTIM. To the victim, government provides benefits – housing, free schooling, free food, welfare, etc. Get Perez. Get Perez. Get Perez. Make an object lesson of that useless Demo.
Good read–the real problem of course is the “12th man”, a shorthand I use for the Left-leaning media.
They SHOULD be covering this–but just like most issues that reflect poorly on their pre-determined and largely unexamined worldview–they either put their thumb on the scales or they simply refuse to cover it.
If enough people don’t know about it then they can pretend it never happend.
testing…
Why do you call it a “folly.” It was malice and intentional injustice.
“Whether Congress will hold Perez and Colangelo accountable remains to be seen.”
No, it doesn’t. They won’t hold them accountable.
Headlines gotta be short. Get it?
I think you mean we are being punished, unless the DOJ lawyers are paying the fee’s our of their own pockets.
There are two more years we have to suffer before a gleam of relief appears on the horizon. Strengthening our control of the House and gaining control of the Senate would provide the relief. I don’t know what it would take to stop this guy and his appointees dead in their tracks. What is the critical majority number in the Senate? Fifty one? Sixty one? Two thirds? What I;m talking about is defeating the Democrats in the Senate. Overturning presidential vetos. Dare I say it; impeachment conviction. Well, one can dream. I guess.
Good luck with that. 90+% of the press is in the Dems back pocket which means they control mainstream (information) flow. Reports came in from many states that voting machines registered a Dem vote when the person cast a Repub vote. Contracting out voting counts to the third party company in Spain. Busing in “voters” to cast votes in multiple stations. Once the obama person gets a grip on health care and purging the military, it’ll be almost over. Already some Demwit proposed dumping the 22nd amendment. He’s already said after he’s gone after guns, he’s going to “tackle” immigration reform. Which means he’ll have millions more illegals than the current number. And for all those folks out there looking for a fight, ask yourself, how many of those illegals coming in will be greatful Libyan/Syrian/Eqyptian/Central American “freedom fighters” ready to help out? Suggest you get on YouTube, check out “Storm Clouds Gathering” videos. He’s got some good stuff.
“….The cost to the American taxpayers for their stunt will be significant.”
Do tell! How about the “cost” being the whole $#@%ing country?
But looking on the bright side, other states trying to enact voter ID laws now have a model (and even a font size) to pass rules that will be Eric Holder proof.
When the Justice Department is politicized into a Leftist institution, we are close to being a Banana Republic.
Perez will receive NO punishment from this egregious act. Sadly.
Perez is Illiberal, supports ALL things other than Anglo, his boss is ‘My People’ Holder and Perez is other than Anglo.
I’m getting back to the states in ~ 6 months. My East Coast-based company is wanting me to return to their MD office though I’m desperately looking elsewhere.
For if I saw AAG Perez and like-minded enemies of the state in my field of vision.. it’d be ugly.
Barrack Hussein Obama claims to be a Christian, even though the “church” where he was a member had a “minister” who violated the third commandment by taking the name of the Lord in vain, from the pulpit of the “church,” and preached hate toward races other than his own.
As a result of Obama’s refusal to make any cuts in spending, by the time a child born today reaches 40 years old, his share of the public debt will be $279,738 – an increase of 859 percent above what it is today. Can you imagine the poverty in which he will live. Think Hati.
Since Obama claims to be a Christian, maybe he better review Luke 17:2 “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he be cast into the sea than that he should offend one of these little ones.” They will be living in abject poverty that we cannot even imagine.
Who are Tom Perez, Matthew Colangelo, Eric Holder and Obama’s natural Kind? Now do you understand the meaning of a natural born citizen?
A few more borrowed dollars matter not to Obama.
Thank you Mr. Adams for this article. How does the outcome of this case affect the swing states that Obama “won” in as none of the swing states required ID and were not allowed by Obama. What about AZ in the immigration case that Obama sued them on.
CONGRATULATIONS, MR. ADAMS;
You’re on the main page at drudgereport.com.
This is what media should be doing always. Getting to the heart of all the back-handed dirty tricks on both sides
Glad to see the U.S. Dept. of Jive Turkey get what it deserves for a change.
Holder’s DOJT has been a joke from the beginning.
The frightening thing about this partisan action by GOVERNMENT employees is that it shows the ease with which PapaDoc Barack will use ANY means to get his result, whether legal or not, constitutional or not. His entire Justice Department, from Holder on down is a dangerous disgrace.Janet Reno should send Holder a dosen roses with a thnak you because she is not longer the worst attorney general ever.
New to this site and pleasantly surprised: important discussion; one can read through the comment section, and quite profitably, to the end and not once be offended by the profane or the illogical (close call in one post). Good work and thank you, commenters – and adjudicators, probably.
It’s the repressed Nazi within them that makes them act like this. The past few years have seen the loons on the left become increasingly rabid, next, drooling and raving?
No, the guilty go unpunished, and we the taxpayers get to fund this little travesty. In a just world, these immoral partisans would be named, shamed, fired, and shunned. In DC, they move on to the next crusade.
Some suggest that voter ID suppresses the vote, of minorities. The GOP is a minority? Voter ID will keep them from casting multiple ballots and protect the eligible voter base.
This is part of the legacy of the Eric Holder DOJ. Under Holder, this has become the most political DOJ since Nixon. From the start of his term, Holder’s DOJ has enforced laws based on skin color and political affiliation, from the New Black Panther case to this once. The Obama administration was supposed to be ‘post-racial’ and ‘post-partisan.’ The Holder DOJ has helped the president turn his administration into the most partisan and most race-conscious administration in recent memory.
Court ruled the DOJ owes SC the money…Court needs to go further and hold individuals within the DOJ personally liable for the money…as the judgement now stands the US Taxpayer would be the ones paying SC, while the majority of taxpayers sided with SC in the first place.
Justice is coming, right after ATF’s Fast and Furious and State’s Benghazi debacle. Just hang on, Congress will get to it…..
Obama has ushered in a culture of indifference when it comes to democrats’ malfeasance and misbehavior. Whatever they do that would have raised the nation’s wrath ten or twenty years ago is now seen as part of a relativist mindset. “Yeah But,” ought to be the new marquee for the democrat party and their insufferable cohorts in the major media. The halo these latter-day groupies have built around Obama has morphed into a wave of mind-warping ether that has bridged the old line between moral and immoral, right and wrong,and given legitimacy to indifference. He has created the most subtle propaganda machine in human history.
Obama will call for more tax increases to help cover the increased cost of running the Justice Department.
Just another item in the long, ongoing saga of the pathetic, bias, Socialist/Marxist, Scumbag Progressive Obamunist Regime and it’s maggot riddled DOJ. Are there any rocks not yet turned over in finding more political hacks to appoint to the government? I yearn for “the good old days” when some of these goons could be taken care of with a horse, a tree and a rope.
More taxpayer money spent on the Justice Department’s failed, racist agenda. Holder and Obama have no problem spending it though–after all, you can always get more money by raising taxes or inflating the currency.
No one in the federal government will be held accountable for this act ion. This is the most corrupt administration in our history and has deemed itself beyond reproach.
Thank you to the ignorant imbecile s who voted for Obama and his party for sealing the doom of this once great country.
Last year I paid a hefty 34k in taxes. Over a dispute with an old employer – the IRS wants another 50k. But with waste like this / it takes over a 100 people paying a similar sum to meet a fraction of the spend…
Did that Herren fellow play Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movies? I can wait to see him in front of Congress spilling his guts.
Unless Perez and Colangelo are personally punished with something significantly more severe than a slap on the wrist this kind of abusive behavior by those drunk with power in Snafu DC will continue unabated.
In the evil private enterprise, someone would lose their job for using company funds for their personal issues. That there evil corporate world, but when done by political hacks, nothing will be done. May these people reap what they sow.
“Wasting the taxpayer’s money?” Is that what offends you about this?
How about using the austere instruments of justice, which are demanded to be impartial by our founding documents, by natural law, and ultimately by God, and using them for partisan, political purposes? That, alone, is grounds for impeachment and removal, and ought to be grounds for disbarment as well. This is an abuse of the court system and a violation of the 5th Amendment.
The corruption of the Obama Administration is nowhere more clear than in the conduct of the Justice Department, which has been turned into an engine of partisan politics. I favor impeachment, not only of Erich Holder, who is the stink at the heart of this corrupt division, but of President Barack Obama, who appointed that damned criminal to do precisely what he is doing — making a partisan mockery of justice in the United States.
The DOJ officials will never be held accountable.
Not surprised at all.
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If the GOP has any guts or brains – which I doubt -, they would attached voting rights related amendments after amendments to every democratic bill until the power of DOJ is neutered and the entire Democrat voting fraud infrastructure is destroyed.
It doesn’t take guts or brains; it takes votes. Specifically, it takes 51 votes in the Senate to organize as the majority caucus and it takes 60 to defeat a Democrat filibuster. The Republicans don’t have the votes so it doesn’t matter if they have the guts or brains.
It’s refreshing to see that there is still some firewall against the tyrannical activities of this
administration. Gov. Haley had set up a 800 number to assist and offer transport to anyone who
was unable to get an ID on their own. The law and its implementation did not discriminate
or cause any undue burden. Too bad there is no one at the DOJ or DOD to insure that the
military get to vote.
Tom Perez lied under oath to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. The DOJ should investigate their own for perjury. Let’s see if they do.
My source: none other than U.S. District Court judge Reggie Walton who stated that Perez lied in a court decision last year.
BethesdaDog – can you post more details about this: ” U.S. District Court judge Reggie Walton who stated that Perez lied in a court decision last year.”
Republicans won big at the state level in 2010, starting the process to require photo identification for voting. It’s my understanding the DOJ delayed enforcement until after the 2012 election, but that the new laws will have a chance to go through the courts and be enforced by 2014. Christian, what states will likely have new photo ID requirements by 2014? Pennsylvania? Texas? Wisconsin?
Let’s see…
Two lawyers in the Federal DOJ using US taxpayers’ money brought a suit against the people of South Carolina. The court ruled for the people of South Carolina, who now demand reibursement for the $3.5 million defending the suit cost.
These DOJ lawyers cost us, the American people about $7 million. Either way it worked out, us workin’ stiffs pay out the nose for these guys to push paper and attack the idea that voters, most of whom have their photos on their driver’s licenses, need photo ID to vote. Doubtless these two DOJ lawyers, like most governemnt workers, have photo ID badges to get into their offices.
Uncle Sam will take our tax money to pay the suit, and the lawyers will concoct another assault on our culture.
Maybe it’s time to make lawyers, who are trained, tested, and licensed, responsible PERSONALLY for all costs in frivolous, baseless lawsuits. Betcha that would clear a lot of court calendars!
This is a corrupt and treasonous administration. Based on my reading of the U.S. Constitution it has become illegitimate. We are under no obligation to abide by Unconstitutional laws passed by an Unconstitutional group of traitors!
Revolution is needed and we have the Law on our side. I do prefer a peaceful one but I will not shirk from my responsibility if it comes to it!
In what sense was the DOJ punished? Are the responsible employees going to have to pay the fine, or are we, the U.S. taxpayers?
It is not a fine. It is a cost order. Big difference. And yes, the taxpayers are liable. It spreads SC costs to the US taxpayers because the US lost the case.