Posted on 03/17/2015 4:04:59 PM PDT by bestintxas
There has been a flurry of procedural developments in the lawsuit filed by 26 states in a Texas federal court against President Obama’s amnesty plan for 5 million illegal aliens. On March 19, Justice Department lawyers — and officials of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — will be in the hot seat at a hearing scheduled by Judge Andrew Hanen. Sitting in the dock, they will have to explain whether they misled (others might say “lied to”) the court. Or, as Hanen put it in formal judge-speak: “be prepared to fully explain to this Court all of the matters addressed in and circumstances surrounding” the “Advisory” filed by the government on March 3. Many lawyer jokes play off the premise that lawyers are congenitally incapable of telling the truth. But in reality, lawyers have an obligation to be honest in their dealings with a court: They have to tell the truth. Under the American Bar Association’s Model Rule of Professional Conduct 3.3, attorneys have an ethical obligation of “Candor toward the Tribunal.” They shall not knowingly “make a false statement of fact or law to a tribunal or fail to correct a false statement of material fact or law previously made to the tribunal by the lawyer.” This is particularly important because judges often make their decisions — or delay making a decision — on the basis of what they are told by lawyers. Candor is especially crucial from government lawyers, given the enormous consequences often at stake in the cases they prosecute or defend, like this immigration case.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Were their lips moving?
I'll be betting on the judge...
5.56mm
To paraphrase: How many divisions does Judge Hanen have?
The Obama Administration blatantly lies about just about anything and everything.
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