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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If all these civil rights organizations and foundations were indeed intended to help the black community the entire population would be out of the victim mentality they hold to today and well established as participants in society.
But of course they were never established to help the community......rather then, and now, to sustain the Democratic Party.
Congrats, j.haven! (Are you related to Angelina, btw? ;) Would be neat if you were)
But there are many tests of what makes a true FReeper. Verbosity is certainly one, but the main test is this: do you read the article before posting? LOL!
The Left is largely funded, directly or indirectly, by government grants. Grants to “non profits”. Research grants to “social scientists” who spend much of their time being activists. Shut down the government grant mechanism, and you shut down much of the Left.
Winning bigly by a thousand micro wins
More winning! MAGA!
Obama’s army die one at a time good.
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