This is simply priceless.
The Hill reports:
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday tore into Justice Department lawyers who argued the immigration case involving the Obama administration, ordering them to take ethics classes.
In a blistering court order, U.S. District Court Just Andrew S. Hanen said he was “disappointed” about having to address the subject of lawyer behavior, calling it “at best, a distraction.”
Hanen said any Department of Justice attorney who wants to argue in a state or federal court in any of the 26 states involved in the immigration case must take an annual three-hour ethics course for the next five years.
“Clearly, there seems to be a lack of knowledge about or adherence to the duties of professional responsibility in the halls of the Justice Department,” Hanen wrote in his 28-page order, which quoted the films “Bridge of Spies” and “Miracle on 34th Street.”
The judge ordered Attorney General Loretta Lynch to provide a “comprehensive plan” within 60 days on how to “prevent this unethical conduct from ever occurring again.”
The reprimand Thursday came after the Obama administration granted 100,000 expanded work permits for undocumented immigrants despite Hanen issuing a ruling in February 2015 to temporarily block Obama’s executive action. Hanen said he was misled by lawyers arguing the case as to when the Obama administration would implement the directive.
“The misconduct in this case was intentional, serious and material,” Hanen wrote. “In fact, it is hard to imagine a more serious, more calculated plan of unethical conduct.”
While we’re at it, what the DOJ could really use is a copy of “How to Prosecute a Bank Executive for Dummies.”
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When a federal judge has to sanction a Dept. of Justice attorney practicing at this level of professional responsibility, you can be sure the ROT is endemic and irreversible. There is no “reforming” the system as the system itself is the problem. It has mutated to the point that it can adapt to anything but its total elimination.
We are going to have to start over. Hopefully, through constitutionally approved means. If not, through the means approved by the Declaration of Independence. One way or another, there is not fixing a system now designed to be broken.
What if Trump and company reversed all of Obuma’s executive orders and then removed most of the addendums to the Justice Dept.’s regulations from the last 50 years. Of course, the US Constitution would be focused on with these reversal changes. Carry that theory to all departments of the US government. Eliminate some departments entirely.
You are laid off. I got laid off regularly due to lack of construction work. You might have to get a real job or start a business. That would reinvigorate the entrepreneurial spirit in the USA. Go Trump.
I do not think it will work… two years ago I was talking about Ethics with a professor that teaches it in a university near Philly… and some of his Academic peers (I am not an academic, thankfully), it was quite shocking. Technically they removed the good and bad concept, turning ethics into a construct very cold, very scientific, but… dumb-ing down its fundamental goal which is questioning what is good and bad. Mind, we will never find an answer to this questioning… yet the questioning itself is the exploration that makes us rich and better. The essence of Ethic is this questioning… it is not a scientific construction of building rules of acceptance.
The consequences is staggering. For them Ethics was acknowledging/recording passively the changes that happen in society in virtue of what is right or wrong according to general behavior (for example, if everyone steals they just code the stealing into a new accepted behavioral rule accepted by all… they would code that behavior as a new acceptable standard). Crazy eh? Again it is not about finding the answer about right or wrong, but definitely the questioning is fundamental…
Caning.
It is impossible to use the words progressive and ethical in the same sentence and have anyone believe you…..imho
Awwww, a thlap on the writht.
WTF ever happened to hefty fines and/or imprisonment for contempt of court?!