PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: JeffDG on May 20, 2016, 06:36:31 AM
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For those not familiar with the term...a bench slap is when a judge goes off on lawyers in their court in a particularly eloquent way.
The case in question is the DACA injunction lawsuit in Texas, where Texas and 25 other states have sued the Feds to stop the implementation of Obama's executive amnesty
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/05/20/federal-judge-lowers-the-boom-on-doj-after-bad-faith-misrepresentations/
This Court has found no authority to support the concept that it is ever ethical and appropriate conduct to mislead a court and opposing counsel; nor has the Government provided any authority to that effect. That being the case, the Court finds no need for a comprehensive dissertation on the duty of candor and honesty because counsel in this case failed miserably at both. The Government’s lawyers in this case clearly violated their ethical duties.
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The misconduct in this case was intentional, serious and material. In fact, it is hard to imagine a more serious, more calculated plan of unethical conduct. There were over 100,000 instances of conduct contrary to counsel’s representations; such a sizable omission cannot be classified as immaterial.
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Therefore, this Court, in an effort to ensure that all Justice Department attorneys who appear in the courts of the Plaintiff States that have been harmed by this misconduct are aware of and comply with their ethical duties, hereby orders that any attorney employed at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. who appears, or seeks to appear, in a court (state or federal) in any of the 26 Plaintiff States annually attend a legal ethics course.
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Ouch
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WHOA!!
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Wow...
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Awesome
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This is what you get when a tyrant sets the tone at the top, says the law and the Constitution say only what you want it to say, and hires inexperienced and unethical ideologues to pull it all off.
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That's great. Finally someone called out the DOJ for their shenanigans in court.
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So I hear this is being punted up the flagpole for political motives and might not survive. That judge was appointed by HW Bush...need I say more?
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So I hear this is being punted up the flagpole for political motives and might not survive. That judge was appointed by HW Bush...need I say more?
I guess it takes a Texan to call out lawyers for unethical behavior.
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So I hear this is being punted up the flagpole for political motives and might not survive. That judge was appointed by HW Bush...need I say more?
Perhaps if the liberals appointed judges with the integrity to call out unethical behavior...
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So I hear this is being punted up the flagpole for political motives and might not survive. That judge was appointed by HW Bush...need I say more?
Yes, you do. Every federal judge is appointed by a president. Must they recuse themselves for every case where the opposition party is involved?
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Perhaps if the liberals appointed judges with the integrity to call out unethical behavior...
Liberal and integrity don't go together, but unethical does.