Representative Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Circus continued with his latest act — radical militant leftist law professor Pam Karlan. Not only is Karlan a radical militant leftist law professor, she is a dishonest one. You won’t find a single mainstream outlet that is giddy over her shrill testimony touch on her false scholarship.
Karlan worked at the Justice Department during the Obama administration. Not much got done on her watch. Where she really excels, however, is lobbing false charges at conservatives or Republicans.
When I was an attorney at the Justice Department, I worked on a Voting Rights Act case that Karlan hated. Why? Because the victims of the racial discrimination were white. We proved our case and won, but that didn’t matter to Karlan. She was still bitter that the Bush administration protected white people from racial discrimination against a black defendant election official.
She even peddled the nonsense in a published law review article. Karlan falsely wrote, “For five of the eight years of the Bush Administration, [they] brought no Voting Rights Act cases of its own except for one case protecting white voters.”
Karlan’s sleight of hand might be interesting… if it were true. Sadly, for her credibility, it is demonstrably false, and she has never once corrected her false scholarship. Her fellow travelers never mention her falsehood and instead praise and elevate her, still.
This is demonstrably false; any visit to the DOJ website demonstrates this. Karlan says the Voting Section brought no cases to protect minorities under the Voting Rights Act in five of eight years — let’s look at the record:
2001 (1 of 1)
United States v. Alamosa County, CO, (D. Colo. 2001)
United States v. Crockett County, TN, (W.D. Tenn. 2001)
United States v. Charleston County, SC, (D.S.C. 2001)
2002 (2 of 2)
United States v. Osceola County, FL, (M.D. Fl. 2002)
2003 (3 of 3)
United States v. Berks County, PA, (E.D. Pa. 2003)
2004 (3 of 4)
No Section 2 case.
2005 (4 of 5)
United States v. City of Boston, MA, (D. Mass. 2005)
United States v. Osceola County, FL, (M.D. Fla 2005)
United States v. Ike Brown and Noxubee County, MS, (S.D. Miss 2005) (Karlan’s dreaded case to “protect white voters.”)
2006 (5 of 6)
United States v. Village of Port Chester, NY, (S.D.N.Y. 2006)
United States v. City of Euclid, et al. OH, (N.D. Ohio 2006)
United States v. Long County, GA, (S.D. Ga. 2006)
2007 (6 of 7)
United States v. City of Philadelphia, PA, (E.D. Pa. 2007)
2008 (7 of 8)
United States v. Euclid City School District Board of Education, OH, (N.D. Ohio 2008)
United States v. Salem County and the Borough of Penns Grove, NJ, (D.N.J. 2008)
United States v. The School Board of Osceola County, FL, (M.D. Fla. 2008)
United States v. Georgetown County School District, et al. SC, (D.S.C. 2008)
Even if Karlan were to claim she meant only “vote dilution cases” (commonly thought of as “redistricting” cases), she is still lying. Dilution cases were brought in four of the eight years, not three of the eight, as she falsely claims. In any event, it’s impossible to claim she only meant dilution cases: she made the bold, broad statement that the Bush DOJ “brought no Voting Rights Act cases of its own” in five of eight years. Taken literally, Karlan’s claim is especially false, as cases under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act were brought — as we see above — in every year except 2004.
Perhaps in 2004 the DOJ lawyers were too busy suing Ventura County (Calif.), Yakima County (Wash.), Suffolk County (N.Y.), San Diego County (Calif.) and San Benito County (Calif.) under Section 203 of the same Voting Rights Act that Karlan claims the Bush administration didn’t enforce in five of eight years.
The truth: Karlan claimed that no cases were brought by the Bush DOJ under the Voting Rights Act to protect racial minorities in five of eight years (except of course to protect those undeserving whites). Yet the record shows that cases were brought under the Voting Rights Act to protect non-white racial minorities in all eight years of the Bush administration.
I even testified to the House of Representatives about her dishonest scholarship in 2012.
So, will any mainstream media outlet covering Karlan’s oddly detached and cold testimony mention this? I doubt it.
Hat tip to Joel Pollak for reminding me of all of this.
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