Federal Judge Finds Justice Department Lawyers Knowingly Lied And Orders Team To Take Ethics Classes

US-DeptOfJustice-Seal_svgJudge_Andrew_S._HanenUnited States District Judge Andrew Hanen issued a remarkable opinion yesterday that found that Justice Department lawyers not only lied to him and opposing counsel but “it is hard to imagine a more serious, more calculated plan of unethical conduct.” What is even more remarkable however is that, after finding such calculated and unethical conduct, Hanen ordered the lawyers to simply take ethics classes rather than refer them to the bar for suspension or disbarment. Many attorneys object that government lawyers routinely escape serious punishment for false or misleading statements. In this case, the judge found that the Justice Department misled him and opposing counsel in a case by Texas and 25 other states that sought to block President Barack Obama’s controversial immigration programs. Hansen blocked the program. Notably, the Justice Department is even opposing ethical classes as a sanction.

The government misled the court on when the government would begin implementing one of the programs. The Justice Department team assured the court the government would not start implementing an expansion of a program called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals until February 18, 2015. The court and opposing counsel relied on that date even though the government implemented a part of the program before February and granted over 100,000 applications. Hansen found that the “Justice Department lawyers knew the true facts and misrepresented those facts.”

Apparently, lawyers, somewhere in the halls of the Justice Department whose identities are unknown to this Court, decided unilaterally that the conduct of the DHS in granting three-year DACA renewals . . . was immaterial and irrelevant to this lawsuit and that the DOJ could therefore just ignore it. Then, for whatever reason, the Justice Department trial lawyers appearing in this Court chose not to tell the truth about this DHS activity. The first decision was certainly unsupportable, but the subsequent decision to hide it from the Court was unethical.

Miracle_on_34th_StreetIn an effort to convey how unethical the Justice Department acted in the case, Hanen even excerpted a portion of the film “Miracle on 34th Street” when a young Tommy Mara Jr. says “Gosh, everybody knows you shouldn’t tell a lie, especially in court.” Judge Hanen noted “There are certain attorneys in the Justice Department who apparently have not received that message.”

Here is the opinion: Immigration Decision.

75 thoughts on “Federal Judge Finds Justice Department Lawyers Knowingly Lied And Orders Team To Take Ethics Classes”

  1. Lying and stealing to get ahead has become part of our immoral fabric…no one in power is ever held to account.

  2. The Justice Department, FBI & Court System are corrupt else they would have indicted the Bush / Obama administrations & Israel for 9/11 and War Crimes years ago.
    A very good note, I am seeing students at colleges and universities become more active in organizing to purge evil from our society. This is a problem they are having; ‘Denouncing Israel’s War Crimes is not anti-Semitism.’
    Here is a letter I wrote to the students and faculty of Oberlin College which may interest you;
    http://BuenaVistaMall.com/LetterToOberlin.html

  3. Directing these attorneys to take an ethics course is ridiculous. They are adults and their character was formed long, long ago. If the judge is serious about expecting ethical conduct, he should apply some serious sanctions. A one-year suspension from federal court practice is warranted.

  4. We need a wall extension as the old wall is rapidly filling up with handwriting. It’s possible that people will start to read the handwriting on the wall but I’m not optimistic.

  5. Phutch: Well put. It must be a dark life for someone who is boxed in enough he or she feels the need to lie to survive.

  6. One-year suspension for a first ethics violation of this kind; disbarment on a second. There’s no good enough excuse for it if trial counsel knew and didn’t disclose it.

    Perhaps the judge was way too lenient so that Justice would not request a new judge every time a case is initially assigned to him. He’d be the judicial equivalent of the Maytag repairman. I don’t know if federal court procedure works that way, but state court here regularly sees that mechanism invoked.

  7. It’s a culture bred in today’s schools. So focused on promoting their agenda, they force-feed until there is only one opinion. Lying is just another method to accomplish.

  8. Justice Department Corruption
    Notes at large on Clinton email scandal
    “Espionage — the removal of state secrets from a secure place to a non-secure place.”
    “The Justice Department has announced that Bryan Pagliano has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony regarding the email scandal. He is the former information technology expert employed by the State Department whom Mrs. Clinton paid $5,000 to migrate her regular State Department email account and her secret State Department email account from their secure State Department servers to her personal, secret, non-secure server in her home in Chappaqua, New York. This was undoubtedly a criminal act. “No honest FBI will ever not [recommend] criminal charges in this case,” former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova. Also he said, “There are going to be referrals for a series of criminal charges involving violations of the espionage statutes, the grossly negligent mishandling of classified information, the grossly negligent storage of classified information.” Intent is not needed to prove either espionage or for lying to federal agents. Both crimes are prosecuted vigorously. Mr. diGenova is confident Department of Justice prosecutors have convened a grand jury in the Hillary Clinton email case. Judge Andrew Napolitano has said, “Pagliano would only be called to testify if the DOJ had already decided to convene a grand jury to indict someone.”

  9. “Ethics” is just a word that is frequently misspelled by judges and lawyers and that is legally acceptable.

  10. An administrative law judge told me to my face, between cases, that an attorney is doing a good job for his client if he lies in court.

  11. The Root of Justice Department Corruption
    http://buenavistamall.com/obamalies.jpg
    Obama is Israel’s chief stooge
    Obama is one of the biggest liars to ever live
    Obama is NOT the president, he NEVER was president
    Table of Evidence regarding Obama’s Forgery and Fraud of Identification
    http://www.BuenaVistaMall.com/Table-of-evidence-of-forgery-fraud-and-fabrication-in-Obamas-IDs1.pdf
    OBAMA is a black Hitler, Mass Murderer / Maimer, Torturer, Baby Killer, Warmonger, Supreme War Criminal, Forger, Fraud, Thief, Usurper, Pathological Liar, Psychopath, Wall Street Stooge, Zionist Lickspittle, Fascist, Nazi, Homosexual
    The U.S. justice system is corrupt
    Obama is one of the Biggest Criminals in World History
    Obama should be Arrested for War Crimes, Innumerable Criminal Offenses
    He should have been arrested years ago!

  12. – the U.S. Department of Justice is Corrupt –
    The Clinton Email Scandal
    “The Fix is in”
    As per usurper Obama’s Justice Dept. the Hilldabeast knows criminal Obama is an ‘illegal alien’
    You and I would already be in prison
    Former US Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe diGenova unloaded on the Department of Justice in
    a radio interview yesterday proclaiming no charges will be brought against Clinton because “the fix is in.”
    WMAL Interview http://BuenaVistaMall.com/diGenova.mp3
    Mr. Putin please leak Hillary Clinton’s emails
    Russia might leak 20000 of the emails
    http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/know-missing-hillary-emails-russia-might-leak-20000/

  13. Trump and Sanders complain that GOP & DNC are rigged. Add justice system is rigged?

  14. Estoppel by conduct. The lawyers should all be estopped from appearing in any federal court in the United States. The lawyers should be forced to wear tee shirts to church on Sunday which say: Liar, Liar, My Pants Are on Fire!

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