Federal judge stops AG Barr's law
enforcement panel from issuing
report, citing lack of diversity
Washington Times,
by
Jeff Mordock
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
10/1/2020 2:34:46 PM
A federal judge Thursday halted a Justice Department commission studying issues plaguing the law enforcement community from releasing its report because the panel excluded civil rights leaders. U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled the much-ballyhooed Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires government committees to receive input from “fairly balanced” viewpoints. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote in his 45-page opinion that the commission was full of law enforcement officials, but none of the members have “a criminal defense, civil rights, or community organization background.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 10/1/2020 2:46:15 PM (No. 558715)
So, who, exactly, did Judge Bates receive input from? The DNC? BLM? Soros?
BTW, Bates is the judge whose ruling cleared the way for the Obama administration to conduct the targeted killing of American citizens who are out of the country...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Nimby 10/1/2020 2:50:24 PM (No. 558719)
Requires "Fairly balanced viewpoints"!! It does not say "color" or "race", but "viewpoints"
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 10/1/2020 3:08:31 PM (No. 558739)
The judge sounds like a racist to me.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 10/1/2020 3:17:05 PM (No. 558749)
Does it take 45 Pages to explain whether the report complies with The Federal Advisory Committee Act's requirement that government committees must receive input from “fairly balanced” viewpoints? Did the judge study the report to determine which "fairly balanced" viewpoints are missing? It's like telling Wolfgang Mozart his new opera has too few notes.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/1/2020 3:24:53 PM (No. 558759)
This may be the law, but doubt its legal. Sounds like a judge can shut down any committee because the people working on it aren't diverse enough Following the 'logic' of this law, a judge can shutdown a committee report because they didn't hear from antifa. This is nuts.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hershey 10/1/2020 3:26:37 PM (No. 558761)
Time to stop these damned Judges from making law and force them to just interpret it...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 10/1/2020 3:57:39 PM (No. 558794)
Ohhhhh I seeeee they didn’t get input from Blacks Lives Matter. Got it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 10/1/2020 3:58:00 PM (No. 558795)
Ignore the judge. Release the report. Challenge this puke to do something about it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/1/2020 4:02:31 PM (No. 558799)
Civil Rights leaders and Community Organizers are the very reason that we need law enforcement.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 10/1/2020 4:06:43 PM (No. 558807)
Presuming some didn't like what they saw in this report, was probably full of too many real changes that weren't directed by one of the other groups this judge wants to say should have been included in the discussion.
Looks like someone is trying to play politics, and deny this President a "win" for doing something, real action, not just some committee to discuss things for years only to have the politicians ignore it.
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No, don't release the report. Have the committee issue a statement saying< "Since the Courts have ruled that we cannot issue a report there is no point in us continuing and this Commission is dissolved.. We have given the Attorney General what would have been in our report."
The next day the Attorney General issues a statement, "Here is what would have been in the Commission's report if the judge had allowed them to release it>"
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
droopydog 10/1/2020 4:24:36 PM (No. 558827)
Ignore it. What's he going to do?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/1/2020 5:15:36 PM (No. 558874)
May I point out that he has no authority to suppress a report. That is executive branch stuff. It doesn't need self-appointed civil rights leaders. He has no say unless it is to rule on written law.
Tell him to EF-OFF!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/1/2020 5:31:46 PM (No. 558887)
Release it anyWAYYYYY.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
planetgeo 10/1/2020 5:37:39 PM (No. 558894)
THIS is why we need Trump. This insanity must be stopped. If not, let the shooting begin. It's like living in an insane asylum.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/1/2020 5:49:36 PM (No. 558908)
Wouldn't it require a trial with each side presenting their evidence before an impartial judge for a judge to make a ruling? This judge has seen none of the evidence, did not participate in the commission's hearing, so how can any ruling be made? And again, isn't the judge making the same mistake as Judge Sullivan, in making himself the prosecutor and the judge in the case? I think so.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
kono 10/1/2020 6:08:16 PM (No. 558918)
Did the panel actively EXCLUDE civil rights leaders? I suspect this point was misleading, if not outright untrue. More likely the panel could not get any of the pet minority 'experts' to participate.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 10/1/2020 6:28:12 PM (No. 558943)
He is a member of the Deep State of Global Marxist Communist Oligarchy One World Government.
Attention U.S. District Judge John Bates.
Our Constitution does not state, 'Your requirement of these; a criminal defense, civil rights, or community organization background experience', must be adhered to nor forced down the throats of every person in the country. That sir is not freedom. That sir is dictatorship tyranny.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/1/2020 6:30:00 PM (No. 558946)
Local LEOs represent the ultimate "community organization background," unless the judge intended to say, "criminal rabble rousers."
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
slipstik 10/1/2020 6:32:31 PM (No. 558948)
I think its really good that we can't get to the roots of the problem. Maybe all the cops will just up and quit, and the problem can take care of itself. Thanx judge.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FunOne 10/1/2020 6:53:34 PM (No. 558965)
Both of the President's Bush seemed to be disinterested in their judicial appointments. They could have done better if the criteria was to select the tenth adult person to exit Walmart on a given day.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HotRod 10/1/2020 7:12:31 PM (No. 558992)
Of course, the DOJ and the judiciary are equal parts of the government. The judiciary has no authority to give direction to the DOJ, just as the DOJ has no authority to direct the judiciary. Barr should tell them to stuff it!
Democrats want the judges to rule the nation from the bench. That isn't the way things work!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/1/2020 8:44:35 PM (No. 559041)
We have a miserable, so-called “federal judiciary.”
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/1/2020 9:05:11 PM (No. 559047)
If one reads the decision, it would appear that any party left out of the process could sue and block publication of any product on the basis that the commission was not "fairly balanced." The term 'Fairly" is not quantitative, but subjective. Seems to me the judge misconstrued the intent, and now opened a fairly large door for malcontents to demand representation on "Presidential Commissions". Next they may demand their recommendations must be forwarded to the President.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
cor-vet 10/1/2020 9:17:59 PM (No. 559055)
How 'diverse' was the gaggle of experts advising this judge. I don't think this judges ruling should stand until a diverse group of judges decides, not just this one judge.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 10/1/2020 9:35:52 PM (No. 559069)
Release the report anyway. When asked by the judge how the report got out, Barr can simply say - I don't know, I don't recall. I'm not aware it was released....
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A George W. Bush appointee. Maybe we need a benevolent dictatorship for a few years; this clown would be shining shoes right now.