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Lost in the shutdown show: Truly Deplorable DOJ and Court Nominees
Some of Capitol Hill's Worst Problems Have Nothing to Do with Trump
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If confirmed by the full Senate, Brian Benczkowski will head the Criminal Division of the DOJ. Benczkowski, alas, has Russian problems. He did a lot of work for the Alfa Bank, a Putin-connected institution that came under scrutiny when it was revealed that it was in cyber-communication with a server inside the Trump Organization.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Jeffrey Clark will head the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ. Brother Clark, it seems, is dubious about the science behind the Great Climate Hoax. He called the science “contestable.” This sent Whitehouse—who, after all, represents a state that like the human body is 60 percent water—up the wall. “You can’t find one scientist at any of our great universities who will say that the science is contestable,” Whitehouse fumed. Clark also defended British Petroleum in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, so he’s lucky no pelicans get elected to Congress.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Eric Drieband will head the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. Drieband’s career is notable for the fact that he never has prosecuted a single case. Nor has he brought a case of any kind to jury. In 2008, Drieband testified against the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act, saying, among other things, that:
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As for the judicial nominees, they were pretty much what you’d expect. Several of them have demonstrated a hostility to the civil rights of the LGBTQ community and to the reproductive freedoms (and thereby the right to privacy) of 51 percent of the population. Several of them are on the “religious liberty” bandwagon regarding the right of merchants to discriminate against LGBTQ citizens. One of them, Michael Kacsmaryk, who’s ticketed for a seat on the federal district court for northern Texas, is something of a career hysteric on the subject of transgender citizens. He signed onto a letter that described transgender people as suffering from a “psychological condition in need of care.” Lovely. But nobody had as permanent a residence in people’s craws than did Thomas Farr, a nominee to be a district judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a15391420/judiciary-nominees-2018/
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If confirmed by the full Senate, Brian Benczkowski will head the Criminal Division of the DOJ. Benczkowski, alas, has Russian problems. He did a lot of work for the Alfa Bank, a Putin-connected institution that came under scrutiny when it was revealed that it was in cyber-communication with a server inside the Trump Organization.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Jeffrey Clark will head the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ. Brother Clark, it seems, is dubious about the science behind the Great Climate Hoax. He called the science “contestable.” This sent Whitehouse—who, after all, represents a state that like the human body is 60 percent water—up the wall. “You can’t find one scientist at any of our great universities who will say that the science is contestable,” Whitehouse fumed. Clark also defended British Petroleum in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, so he’s lucky no pelicans get elected to Congress.
If confirmed by the full Senate, Eric Drieband will head the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. Drieband’s career is notable for the fact that he never has prosecuted a single case. Nor has he brought a case of any kind to jury. In 2008, Drieband testified against the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act, saying, among other things, that:
“The proposed Fair Pay Restoration Act would not be in the best interest of the American people.”
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As for the judicial nominees, they were pretty much what you’d expect. Several of them have demonstrated a hostility to the civil rights of the LGBTQ community and to the reproductive freedoms (and thereby the right to privacy) of 51 percent of the population. Several of them are on the “religious liberty” bandwagon regarding the right of merchants to discriminate against LGBTQ citizens. One of them, Michael Kacsmaryk, who’s ticketed for a seat on the federal district court for northern Texas, is something of a career hysteric on the subject of transgender citizens. He signed onto a letter that described transgender people as suffering from a “psychological condition in need of care.” Lovely. But nobody had as permanent a residence in people’s craws than did Thomas Farr, a nominee to be a district judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a15391420/judiciary-nominees-2018/
Farr has a long history of screwing with the vote, and voting rights, of African-Americans. The district he's nominated for is heavily African-American. Charles Pierce notes that every Republican on the Judiciary Committee voted for every one of these.
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By the end of three more years, who the fuck knows what the shape the country will be in? Obamacare, Medicaid, Education & EPA have already taken serious hits.
