Chairman Paul Ryan, Meet DOJ Lawyer Daniel Freeman
Since you chair the Budget Committee, perhaps you can help out Rep. Trey Gowdy and Senator Lindsey Graham. See, both of them have demanded that Eric Holder provide them the approval memo, but naturally Holder has refused, twice. Perhaps your office can help get the information since they have ignored Gowdy and Graham’s request.
Freeman also led DOJ’s Section 5 attack against Texas voter ID.
In Pennsylvania, Freeman’s 2012 DOJ attack turned into a DCCC fundraising letter within hours.
Obviously, Freeman’s employer has enormous power over the conduct of elections. And Freeman’s inaugural outburst is not the exception for Voting Section lawyers. You can order up my book Injustice from the Library of Congress and see the photographs of Obama campaign posters adorning lawyer offices at the DOJ Voting Section.
That’s just the partisan tip of the Democrat iceberg.
Don’t be fooled by members of the House Judiciary Committee who sing the praises of DOJ’s enforcement of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Section 5 has become a partisan weapon used by the DOJ civil service against Republicans and election integrity. The boos manifest themselves as DOJ Voting Section policy over and over again against conservatives, Republicans, and election integrity.
And don’t assume Freeman’s rude behavior towards you will hurt his career. The opposite is true. Even though some managers in the Voting Section recognize Freeman is arrogant and difficult to deal with, they think he is good with data. Most of all, the political appointees treasure a fellow traveler in the career ranks.
I expect Freeman will get a cash award next October at the DOJ Civil Rights Division awards ceremony, unless of course your committee passes a proviso clamping down on cash awards.
Holder even gives cash awards to liberal Civil Rights Division lawyers who lose cases! (Gotta read Injustice for that one, sorry).
More than likely, Freeman will get promoted as soon as some of the more sensible managers in the Voting Section leave or are forced out (like the ones who recommended approval of South Carolina’s law).
Freeman’s career at DOJ will not suffer. His outburst is the symptom of a deeper problem – a career civil service at the powerful Civil Rights Division ideologically militant against conservatives and the rule of law. His bosses will feel pride at his outburst, not shame.
Don’t make the mistake that some of your GOP colleagues in the House have made: when you deal with Holder’s Civil Rights Division, you are not dealing with fair, impartial law enforcement officials.
If you’d prefer to ask Freeman directly why he was so rude to you, he can be reached at 202-305-4355 or daniel.freeman@usdoj.gov. But forget about Twitter. Freeman’s account was deleted after his incivility became national news yesterday.
Good luck, and sorry about the boos from the civil service. I promise, in time, they are really great fun.
Sincerely,
J. Christian Adams
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 ..