🏴‍☠️☠️“BAD TO THE BONE” — TRUMP JUSTICE DEPT. SO CORRUPT THAT EVEN THE GUY WHO RAN THE LIBRARY 📚 & SUPPORT SERVICES (“ACTING” AG MONTY WHATSHISNAME) HAS DIRTY HANDS! — Judge Garland Had Better Show Up With A Broom🧹, A Plunger 🪠, The Code of Professional Responsibility, & Lots Of New Lawyers From the Private Sector If He Plans To Restore Justice @ Justice! 

 

“On the day I was born

The nurses all gathered ’round

And they gazed in wide wonder

At the joy they had found

The head nurse spoke up

And she said leave this one alone

She could tell right away

That I was bad to the bone

Bad to the bone

Bad to the bone

B-B-B-B-Bad 

B-B-B-B-Bad

B-B-B-B-Bad

Bad to the bone”

—- From “Bad to the Bone” By George Thorogood & The Destroyers (1982)

“Monty” Python
“Monty Python” Whatshisname
Acting U.S. Attorney General
Photo: Ian Jacobs, Creative Commons License

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/22/monty-wilkinson-biden-acting-attorney-general-doj-lawyer-family-separations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Biden official involved in removal of DoJ lawyer concerned by family separations

Monty Wilkinson worked with Iris Lan in reviewing complaints about prosecutor who said he was ‘disturbed’ by Trump policy

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

Published:

21:31 Friday, 22 January 2021

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The Biden administration’s acting attorney general, a longtime career official named Monty Wilkinson, took part in a controversial 2017 decision to remove a justice department (DoJ) lawyer in Texas who had raised concerns about migrant children who were being separated from their parents.

Emails seen by the Guardian show that Wilkinson, who is expected to serve as acting attorney general until Judge Merrick Garland is formally confirmed by the Senate, worked with another longtime career official, Iris Lan, in reviewing complaints about Joshua Stern, a prosecutor who had told colleagues he was “disturbed” by the Trump administration’s separation policy.

Jeff Sessions impeded inquiry into role in Trump’s family separation policy

The policy ultimately led to the separation of about 1,550 children from their parents, hundreds of whom have still not been reunited, although Joe Biden has said he would make that one of his top priorities.

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Stern, who is no longer employed by the DoJ, was ultimately removed from his post as a temporary detailee, two weeks after senior officials in Texas raised concerns about him to officials in Washington DC, including Wilkinson.

Wilkinson, who Biden chose to serve as acting attorney general until Garland is confirmed, had been overseeing human resources, security planning and the library at the justice department before he was elevated to serve as acting attorney general.

A recent report in the New York Times suggested that Wilkinson was a trusted longtime official, and that his “low profile” all but guaranteed that he was not involved in any of the myriad scandals that defined the justice department under Donald Trump and the former attorney general Bill Barr.

But a report published by the Guardian in September 2020 revealed that Wilkinson was one of several career officials who reviewed complaints that ultimately led to the removal of Stern from the western district of Texas in 2017.

The report was focused on the role a senior justice department official, Iris Lan, played in reviewing those complaints. Lan had been nominated to serve in a lifetime appointment as a federal judge, but the nomination was never taken up in the Senate after a number of immigrant rights groups raised concerns about Lan following publication of the Guardian’s article.

It is not clear whether Wilkinson or Lan privately supported or criticized the administration’s child separation policy when they heard about Stern’s concerns.

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It’s not like Courtside hasn’t been saying it for several years now: Cruelty, lawlessness, inhumanity, racism, and dishonesty end up corrupting everyone. Sessions is essentially a “21st Century Nazi war criminal” — everyone who served him is tarnished by his miserable lack of ethics, humanity, intelligence, honesty, and anything close to the basic qualifications for office. The same can be said for Billy the Bigot and short-timer Matt Whitaker. 

Even a guy like “Monty” — basically considered “safe” because he was a bureaucratic nebbish who kept out of sight and off the radar screen — turns out to have been bathed in the slime 🤮 that Sessions and his cronies unleashed on the Department.

Of course, it’s more fun to come “riding in on a white horse” to rally and save the dispirited troops. But, in this case, the “troops” who willingly carried water for the immoral, racist, lawless, White Nationalist, anti-democracy, and ultimately insurgent kakistocracy at the DOJ are part of the problem. And, that goes for some career lawyers who failed to live up to their oaths of office, not just the vile politicos. 

If “Team Garland” doesn’t knock some heads, re-establish ethical standards, provide some moral leadership, and hold some folks who should have known better accountable, they are not going to be able to get the job done! The EOIR kakistocracy is the obvious starting point. But, it can’t be the end of “operation clean sweep!”🧹

In the meantime, the Biden Administration might have to look in the JMD motor pool or the mail room to find an “Acting” AG not tarnished by the Barr-Whitaker-Sessions kakistocracy @ Justice!

⚖️Due Process Forever!

PWS

06-22-21

🤮👎🏻☠️CHILD ABUSERS ON THE LOOSE — Rosenstein & Sessions Still At Large Even As Those Whose Lives Were Destroyed By Their Unconstitutional Actions Continue To Suffer Irreparable Harm — A Complete Institutional Meltdown Across All Three Branches Leaves U.S. As A Major Human Rights Abuser! — How Low Will We Go Before We Finally Say “No” To Racist Abuses! — “The family separations that followed are seen today by experts as one of the gravest domestic human rights violations to have occurred under the Trump administration.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/23/child-separation-migrants-prosecutors-rod-rosenstein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

From The Guardian:

Revealed: Rod Rosenstein advised there was no age limit on child separations

Former deputy attorney general’s 2018 conference call with US prosecutors in border states shocked some participants, Guardian learns

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

Published:

06:00 Thursday, 23 July 2020

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Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general, advised US attorneys implementing the 2018 zero-tolerance policy that there could be no blanket ban on prosecuting migrant parents who had children under the age of five, the Guardian has learned.

The comments on a conference call in May 2018 privately shocked some border state prosecutors because, in effect, it meant that no child was too young to be separated from its parents under the policy, which called for all migrants entering the US illegally to face criminal prosecution.

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The family separations that followed are seen today by experts as one of the gravest domestic human rights violations to have occurred under the Trump administration.

The policy was in place for six weeks and resulted in the separation of 2,814 children from their parents and guardians, about 105 of whom were under the age of five and 1,033 under 10.

Rosenstein issued his guidance to US attorneys from states on the Mexican border about two weeks after the then attorney general, Jeff Sessions, issued an order that there would be an “escalated effort” to prosecute all illegal entries into the US along the southern border, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian under the condition of anonymity.

Previously, under the Obama administration, most families who crossed the border illegally were detained together if they were arrested or were released pending an immigration trial, but were only separated if authorities deemed children to be in danger.

There were questions among the border state US attorneys at that time about how the zero-tolerance policy would be implemented and the conference call with Rosenstein sought to address those issues.

On the call, one US attorney, John Bash of the western district of Texas, said he had declined to prosecute several cases that had been referred to him by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that involved children under the age of five.

In response, sources familiar with the matter said Rosenstein told the US attorneys that they could not decline to prosecute cases based on the age of the children who would be separated from their parents because there was “no categorical exemption” under the order.

During the call, Rosenstein was also asked whether prosecutors could decline to prosecute parents with children who only spoke indigenous languages, meaning they were unable to communicate in English or Spanish, or those whose children had intellectual disabilities. Rosenstein said that prosecutors could opt to decline to prosecute individuals with children under those two circumstances on a case-by-case basis, sources said.

The comments were met with shock by some of the US attorneys, sources said, because there was concern that children who were under the age of five would not know their own names or their parents’ names and that it posed a risk of children potentially getting lost in the system.

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What does this say about firms like King & Spaulding who offer employment and “cover” to human rights abusers like Rosenstein? Why is serving a racist, neo-Nazi, would-be authoritarian regime considered “OK” by “big law” and other supposedly “legitimate” employers? Where’s the outrage?

If human lives and human dignity matter, why is Rosenstein on anyone’s payroll? Why is he still licensed to practice law?

On the bright side: Unapologetic White Nationalist racist “Gonzo Apocalypto” Sessions is finally off the public dole, hopefully for good.

PWS

07-23-20

 

 

 

PWS

07-23-20