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Tuesday
May242016

Federal Judges Annihilates DOJ Lawyers: 'You Are Not Worthy Of Any Department Whose Name Includes The Word 'Justice'

FEDERAL JUDGE SAYS OBAMA'S DOJ IS CORRUPT TO THE CORE

This is a must watch clip. Fox News legal correspondent breaks down the story.

This order by a sitting Federal Judge is absolutely unprecedented: the DOJ lawyers are BANNED from ever practicing law in Texas again (for the rest of their lives), and they must take annual ethics classes or they will not be able to practice law in 26 other states.

Federal Judge Orders 'Deceptive' DOJ Lawyers to Take Ethics Classes

A federal judge has ordered annual ethics classes for Justice Department attorneys as a punishment for being "intentionally deceptive" during litigation over President Obama's executive immigration orders on amnesty for illegals. "Such conduct is certainly not worthy of any department whose name includes the word 'Justice,'" U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen wrote in a withering order released Thursday.

Hanen also seemed genuinely disappointed that he could not disbar the DOJ attorneys who lied to him, but he did ban them from practicing law in Texas:

The court does not have the power to disbar the counsel in this case, but it does have the power to revoke the pro hac vice status of out-of-state lawyers who act unethically in court. By a separate sealed order that it is simultaneously issuing, that is being done.

The facts of the deception are not in doubt, Hanen emphasized. "DOJ has now admitted making statements that clearly did not match the facts," he said in the May 19 opinion, first noted by the National Law Journal. "It has admitted that the lawyers who made these statements had knowledge of the truth when they made these misstatements ... This court would be remiss if it left such unseemly and unprofessional conduct unaddressed."

As punishment, Justice Department attorneys who wish to appear in any state or federal court within the 26 states that brought the lawsuit have to undergo annual ethics training. "At a minimum, this course (or courses) shall total at least three hours of ethics training per year," he wrote.

In another case, such "egregious conduct" would lead him to strike the government's pleadings, but Hanen decided not to take that step because the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case in April.

"The national importance of the outcome of this litigation outweighs the benefits to be gained by implementing the ultimate sanction," Hanen wrote. "Striking the government's pleadings would not only be unfair to the litigants, but also unfair, and perhaps even disrespectful, to the Supreme Court as it would deprive that Court of the ability to thrash out the legal issues in this case."

 

 

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Reader Comments (4)

WOW! This guy was PISSED. I've been in front of federal courts for 20 years and have never seen a judge order lawyers to undergo ethics classes.

But that's not even the most amazing part of Hanen's ruling. That distinction belongs to his ordering the U.S. Attorney General to report back to him on the lawyers' compliance with the ethics training. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Obama Administration appeal that part of his ruling in some way, perhaps a mandamus action. Who knows.

What's become increasingly clear over the last 8 years is that the judicial branch is the only one that isn't COMPLETELY corrupt. Congress and the Executive Branch--in their entirety--are gone for good (unless points are awarded for third-rate Kabuki theater productions now and then).
May 24, 2016 at 7:40 PM | Unregistered CommenterCheyenne
But that's not even the most amazing part of Hanen's ruling. That distinction belongs to his ordering the U.S. Attorney General to report back to him on the lawyers' compliance with the ethics training.
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And there's more the ethics training has to be done outside of DOJ by non-DOJ affiliated instructors. It's so freaking awesome. They will be reminded of their lies EVERY SINGLE YEAR for the rest of their lives, or as long as they seek to practice.
May 24, 2016 at 8:35 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
This is the textbook definition of a feel good story.
May 24, 2016 at 8:36 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
"This is the textbook definition of a feel good story."

LOL +1
May 24, 2016 at 9:29 PM | Unregistered Commenterpitchfork

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