Posted on 10/28/2022 7:08:49 AM PDT by lowbridge
A federal judge rebuked the DOJ this week for targeting conservative nonprofit Eagle Forum of Alabama with a stunning subpoena — punishing the wrongthinker on gender ideology by process and sending a chilling message to other dissenters from regime orthodoxy.
The judge’s ruling came in Boe v. Marshall, a case in which the Justice Department intervened this spring, suing Alabama over the constitutionality of its Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act.
That law prohibits Alabamans from rendering so-called “gender-affirming care” to minors — which can include giving them puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and even surgically removing their breasts and replacing their genitalia — under penalty of felony.
As President Joe Biden said in a recent interview, he believes no state should be allowed to stop such child mutilation. DOJ is prosecuting accordingly.
Enter Eagle Forum, which had lobbied for the legislation. DOJ indicated it believed the advocacy group might have also been involved in drafting the bill. So in a move that would make the Jan. 6 committee blush, under guise of discovery in August, DOJ issued a subpoena commanding Eagle Forum — a nonparty to the case — to produce 11 categories of documents covering five-plus years’ worth of material related to the bill.
DOJ demanded every scintilla of associated evidence of wrongthink, from notes and research to communications with legislators and other interested parties.
Eagle Forum called on the court to quash the subpoena, arguing not only that complying with it would be excessively costly and complex and that its work was irrelevant to the case — it also threatened Americans’ most fundamental rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Makes me glad I donated to the Eagle Forum of Alabama after I read what they were doing.
Probably got myself added to a list in the DOJ, but it is worth it.
Little doubt you're on the "Potential/Probable Domestic Terrorist" list now. Welcome aboard.
When having to comply with subpoenas one should look in places where there is no data then respond “We did not find anything”, using the DOJ normal response to having to provide data.
Bookmark
This is easy for the DOJ to get around, just go and search the offices of Eagle Forum. Take whatever they want.
What’s to stop them?
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