Posted on 02/04/2018 12:18:41 PM PST by markomalley
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has “quietly” put an end to most work at the Office for Access to Justice (ATJ), one of the lesser initiatives of the Eric Holder era, according to a Thursday New York Times report.
The tiny ATJ was founded in 2010 under then-Attorney General Eric Holder. Its last published organization chart, from 2015, shows only three appointees and their support staff. ATJ distributed grants and drafted “statements of interest” aimed at supporting the right to competent legal representation for the poor and indigent secured by the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court’s famous 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright.
In 2014, however, ATJ also provided $1.8 million to left-wing open-borders groups like the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, the George Soros-funded Equal Justice Works, and the New York Immigration Coalition to provide lawyers for so-called “unaccompanied children” who surged across the southern border that year in their immigration hearings. This week, even the notoriously liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected the idea that the Constitution requires the government to pay for lawyers for these child aliens.
The Civil Rights Division leaders of the Obama administration are dejected at the news ATJ was being all but shut down. “Sessions’ shutting down the Access to Justice Initiative sadly speaks for itself,” Vanita Gupta, President Barack Obama’s Civil Rights Division chief, told the Times.
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Couldn’t have happened to a better treasonous operation.
GOOD...now get rid of ALL of the Obama holdovers !
Every little bit adds to the winning feeling...
If they didn’t waste money on Mueller, they would have plenty to spare.
Tragic.
If I was Trump I wouldn’t let a day go by without killing something near and dear to Obama and the democrats.
YES!!!! Hope this is just the beginning.
DEFUND THE LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get rid of all these slush funds
They need to shut down that DoJ Office of Incitement that ran down to Ferguson, Mo. to assist in burning the place down.
This is what Offensive Winning feels like.
I assume this is what droolin’ Joe Kennedy was talking about when he talked about DOJ rolling back civil rights. I didn’t know what he was yapping about on this point
Yay!
“Tiny organization” ... even tinier violin...
.....”ATJ provided $1.8 million to left-wing open-borders groups like the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, the George Soros-funded Equal Justice Works, and the New York Immigration Coalition to provide lawyers for so-called “unaccompanied children”.....
Everything the BO administration did was deceptive wherever there was a flow of revenue to divert elsewhere.
“Sessions’ shutting down the Access to Justice Initiative sadly speaks for itself,” Vanita Gupta, President Barack Obama’s Civil Rights Division chief, told the Times.”
Put some ice on it, Vanita.
What did we expect from Maumau Holder, who reminded us that His main purpose in office was to act as Omugabe's wingman??
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