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President Trump has nominated a slate of solid picks for the federal bench, including a new list of nominees this week. Among them is Kurt D. Engelhardt. Trump nominated Engelhardt to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a district that covers the area from Alabama to the Rio Grande. Engelhardt already serves as a United States District Court judge in New Orleans. Engelhardt will be familiar to PJ Media readers. He is the judge who wrote a scathing 129-page order blistering the misconduct of lawyers at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the local New Orleans U.S. Attorney's...

To the career men & women at DOJ/FBI: your actions and integrity will be unfairly questioned. Be prepared, be strong. Duty. Honor. Country. ___ Eric Holer 30 June 2017

PJ Media has been covering the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division for years. This is the unit that will be investigating the shooting in Ferguson and deciding whether to charge the police officer with civil rights crimes. PJ Media had to sue Eric Holder to obtain the resumes of the lawyers he hired to populate this unit. No wonder. The “Every Single One”series at PJ Media revealed that all of Holder’s attorney hires were leftists, some even with a history of anti-police activities. Read the detailed biographies of the lawyers here. Why does it matter that the DOJ...

Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez was a featured speaker at the convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a militant Muslim organization which has defended terrorists and suggested Jews were behind the attacks of 9-11. Worse, Perez shared the stage with an overtly anti-Semitic publisher of The Muslim Observer, which regularly features anti-Semitic cartoons with degrading stereotypes of Jews. Mr. Perez, even if you didn't know you were going to share the stage with an Anti-Semitic publisher, the sponsor of the conference has a disturbing history that you either knew or should have known about from this backgrounder: ... ...