Chairman Paul Ryan, Meet DOJ Lawyer Daniel Freeman
Dear Representative Ryan:
I thought you might like to learn more about the fellow who boasted he started that wave of boos at your inaugural appearance: Department of Justice Voting Section lawyer Daniel Freeman. Here at PJ Media we’ve been covering Freeman’s partisan enforcement of federal election laws for years.
We understand, however, that your duties setting spending levels for federal agencies like the Department of Justice often leave you too busy to keep up with the partisan rot deep inside the civil service at DOJ. If your duties as chair of the House Committee on the Budget permit just a few minutes, PJ Media thought you’d like to learn a bit more about the man who started the wave of boos against you, as well as how his office is corrupting the enforcement of federal election laws.
Come budget time, maybe your committee can boo back.
Mr. Freeman was hired as part of an unprecedented ideological hiring blitz inside the Department of Justice Voting Section soon after the 2009 inauguration. Freeman had all the right credentials for a job as a career civil servant inside Eric Holder’s Justice Department – membership in the Yale Law Democrats and experience with the ACLU attacking Bush administration national security policy. For good measure, he sought out representation of al-Qaeda terrorists at Gitmo.
DOJ’s Daniel Freeman
You’ll note that he didn’t have any experience in federal election law. No matter. Experience in the activist trenches as a radical leftist is the top qualification at Eric Holder’s Civil Rights Division. You can read the biographies of the hundreds of radical leftists hired from 2009-2010 in the Civil Rights Division here.
Stay tuned, because PJ Media hasn’t even reported on the ones hired from 2011-2012 yet.
Once Daniel Freeman was hired, he became a trusted soldier to Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez. He was assigned to politically important voting cases even though he had no experience in election law. One such politically important case was Eric Holder’s battle against South Carolina voter ID.
That case was politically important for two reasons. First, in 2011, President Obama’s base was asleep and unenthused. Blocking South Carolina’s voter ID under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act became part of a political strategy to reawaken his base – a base the president used against you in the fall.
Second, and most importantly, Freeman was assigned to the South Carolina case because of a pesky political problem – other more sensible career lawyers inside the DOJ Voting Section actually recommended in a detailed memo that DOJ approve South Carolina’s voter ID administratively.
You won’t hear much about that memo because reporters in the tank for the administration like McClatchy’s James Rosen have never informed readers that the memo exists. If the memo from the career lawyers had been followed, South Carolina and the federal government would have saved millions of dollars by avoiding a lengthy federal court trial.
But what does taxpayer money matter when a president is up for reelection?
J. Christian Adams. What a badass. Order up a dozen more of him.
Amen. The GOP needs to look at conservatives like J. Christian Adams and start punching libs in the face.
Two questions:
Doesn’t the Civil Service Commission have some sort of Disciplinary Board?
Why can’t these oh-so-smug-clever-lawyers be dis-Barred for unethical conduct?
…….maybe allow for another question: Are these naive questions?….they’d better not be.
The commission was broken up over 30 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Civil_Service_Commission
They will say he was on personel time, not DOJ time.
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That dates me. I was never in it.
Then, is there no system of “accounting” for these august lawyers’ conduct?
OK, I’ll throw this right back at you….
cf:
“United States Merit Systems Protection Board
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Agency overview
Formed 1978
Preceding Agency United States Civil Service Commission
Jurisdiction Federal government of the United States
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Agency executive Susan Tsui Grundmann, Chairman
Website
mspb.gov
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent quasi-judicial agency established to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federal employees against abuses by agency management.”
Why didn’t mention this …..? Screw this “personal business” aspect.
Whether at the state and local or the federal government, merit system boards or personnel boards are just tools of the administration under Democrats, and, frankly, under all too many Republicans. The only thing an employee can really do wrong is get cross-threaded with the administration. Since almost all of our employees were unionized, we wouldn’t let union-represented employees go to the Personnel Board but rather put them in the union contract’s grievance arbitration system, which was a far more objective system.
The real question with employees such as this one is why should employees this close to the formulation and effectuation of policy have merit system protections? I think an incoming administration should have every legal right to fire everyone with the authority to formulate or effectuate policy as the new executive’s hand is still in the air over The Bible. Even though I know that some government lawyers really are apolitical subject matter experts, my experience with government lawyers taught me that ALL of them should serve at the pleasure with no right to appeal discipline or discharge.
P.S.
If this blatant, arrant left-wing B***S**t is widespread in the law profession today, including the ranks of our Civil Service, then I take it as a badge of honor that I was banned from even searching on the ABAJournal.com, in addition to being banned for my alleged “racist” comment posted there on that Ortiz prosecutor in the context of her apparent pique at Aaron Swartz.
If our Civil Service is so infected, then we really do have major problems.
“If our Civil Service is so infected, then we really do have major problems.”
The “Civil Service” of every government at every level in the Country is so infected.
Not quite true. In our office all but one person is a conservative. But the office across the hall from us is almost the opposite! State government.
I reckon the good news for the rest of us is that Daniel Freeman had better assume the position because SCOTUS will likely give it to him fast, hard, and unlubricated on Section 5 in the near future:
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-state-of-section-5
Try again. Here’s Plan B:
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2013/01/10/justice-department-prepares-for-the-demise-of-federal-oversight-of-southern-elections/
The fish rots from the head down. Obama’s DOJ is one really rotten fish.
America is in deep trouble.
These people are truly evil.
When do the purges and pograms begin?
Civil Service was instituted in the late 1800s to protect governments workers from arbitrary dismissals and reductions in rank that was rampant under the ‘spoils system.’ But, and often overlooked reason was it was established to forestall encroachment from the labor unions that were making great strides in organizing workers in the private sectors. Civil Service has evolved over the last century and a half into a government version of a labor union. It’s not there so much to protect the integrity of government as it is shield for arrogance, ineptness and special interests.
Please excuse my grammatical errors – I should know to check more closely before I submit for posting.
Sorry, Paul Ryan is a RINO plain and simple. If you roll with Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, and McConnell, you are a lost cause.
NEXT!
Well, troll, giving a Leftist pos like Freeman a pass so that you can join him in booing Paul Ryan doesn’t do much for YOUR Conservative street cred.
Mr Adams,
Well done sir. Your articles (and your book) are important and disturbing. I want to add my encouragement to the many others who appreciate your work.
“Come budget time, maybe your committee can boo back.”
We don’t do ‘budgets’ anymore…. They just get money no matter what…
Yeah, how dare a guy that we don’t like boo at another guy that we like!!
What a bunch of children. Grow the **** up.
It’s not about the booing dude. But I understand that this was the only toe hold you could get given all of these disturbing facts about DOJ/Democratic abuses of power. Tough job – trolling and protecting this grossly unlawful regime from public scrutiny.
What am i missing? ninth grade civics says the house has to approve expenditures. why do we have a problem when we have a majority in the house…why is there such a thing as obamacare? people, we are not fools…these questions are going to be asked and the answer is not going to be pretty…maybe, the end of the republican party as we know it…
Wonder what mr freeman’s home address is.
This administration is being run by people with the emotional equivalence of children. I am hoping they become so frustrated, they pick up their marbles and go home because they can’t get their way on everything. One legislative house supposedly has a majority of “adults”, and I hope they start acting like it.
Just say no.
So a U S Gov’t employee of some reknown decides he’s ‘gonna make a statement’, and all we see thus far is a Twitter account deletion?
If & when A GOP-er would have “booed” anyone in the Congressional Black Caucus, and then bragged it up, there would-a been blood on the floor and howlings loud and shrill enough to break plate glass, in massive quantities.
But this D B gets no SCUM press and might never even get a love-tap on his snotty, expansive nose.
…but, there’s no bias in The Media…now is there?
Re:#6, MJS : Dude, who ‘squatted’ in your cornflakes, prior to your post?
Folk’s the only way to stop a wrong, is for everyone who feels something is wrong will be to stand togather..It seems as if we allow race,color,or creed to not stand up because we are afraid to offend..Offend who? Offend Why? We are all Americans and we offend too easily if the other person thinks differnt..We have to stand togather.Nothing will ever change if we don’t ..