{"id":1919063,"date":"2023-04-25T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legal-group-sues-justice-department-for-documents-related-to-political-weaponization\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:42:32","slug":"legal-group-sues-justice-department-for-documents-related-to-political-weaponization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legal-group-sues-justice-department-for-documents-related-to-political-weaponization\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Group Sues Justice Department for Documents Related to Political Weaponization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegal-group-sues-justice-department-for-documents-related-to-political-weaponization%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1919063&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0425\/3c76bded-1907-4ba7-8140-4520e5b105e1\/audio.mp3?length=4810221&#038;duration=401\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Are political appointees at the Department of Justice (DOJ) being used to push the Biden administration&#8217;s radical agenda? America First Legal (AFL) thinks so and is suing the DOJ to obtain their records. AFL sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the DOJ, but has received no replies. AFL&#8217;s vice president and general counsel, Gene Hamilton, said, &#8220;We will continue to do everything in our power to hold the Biden Administration accountable for violating the law and concealing these records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AFL had sought information on the appointees\u2019 names, positions, titles, salaries, ethics pledges, and more. On April 11, the organization filed a lawsuit (<a href=\"https:\/\/aflegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AFL-v.-DOJ-Complaint-as-filed.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) against the DOJ for an \u201cimmediate release\u201d of these records.<\/p>\n<p>The politicization of the DOJ became a heated issue after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in August in an apparent effort to retrieve official documents that Trump took from the White House. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who heads the DOJ, said he had \u201cpersonally approved the decision to seek a search warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative organizations accused Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray of having \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/conservative-groups-slam-blatant-politicization-of-doj-over-fbi-raid-of-mar-a-lago_4667182.html\">grossly failed<\/a>\u201d in dealing out justice when they approved the unprecedented moves against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told NTD News, sister outlet of The Epoch Times, in March, \u201cHe\u2019s used the Department of Justice and the FBI as a weapon to attack his political enemies,\u201d Cruz said, \u201cand I think it is profoundly harmful to the rule of law and to justice in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFL runs an <a href=\"https:\/\/wokewagon.aflegal.org\/\">online database<\/a> of thousands of documents the organization has obtained on political appointees in the federal government. In total, 4,548 documents, 2,137 contacts, and 361 organizations are covered under this project.<\/p>\n<h2>Politicization of Federal Agencies<\/h2>\n<p>In November, Republicans from the House Judiciary Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/42-biden-admin-officials-put-on-notice-by-house-republicans_4887955.html\">sent letters<\/a> to at least 42 officials in the Biden adminis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0425\/3c76bded-1907-4ba7-8140-4520e5b105e1\/audio.mp3?length=4810221&#038;duration=401\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Is the DOJ being used to push the Biden administration&#8217;s radical agenda? America First Legal (AFL) thinks so and is taking action. AFL is suing the DOJ to obtain records of political appointees employed at the agency, alleging that these individuals have been placed there to advance the administration&#8217;s agenda. AFL sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the DOJ, but has received no replies. AFL&#8217;s vice president and general counsel, Gene Hamilton, is determined to hold the Biden administration accountable for violating the law and concealing these records.<\/p>\n<p>AFL had sought information on the appointees\u2019 names, positions, titles, salaries, ethics pledges, and more. On April 11, the organization filed a lawsuit (<a href=\"https:\/\/aflegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AFL-v.-DOJ-Complaint-as-filed.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) against the DOJ for an \u201cimmediate release\u201d of these records.<\/p>\n<p>The politicization of the DOJ became a heated issue after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in August in an apparent effort to retrieve official documents that Trump took from the White House. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who heads the DOJ, said he had \u201cpersonally approved the decision to seek a search warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative organizations accused Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray of having \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/conservative-groups-slam-blatant-politicization-of-doj-over-fbi-raid-of-mar-a-lago_4667182.html\">grossly failed<\/a>\u201d in dealing out justice when they approved the unprecedented moves against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told NTD News, sister outlet of The Epoch Times, in March, \u201cHe\u2019s used the Department of Justice and the FBI as a weapon to attack his political enemies,\u201d Cruz said, \u201cand I think it is profoundly harmful to the rule of law and to justice in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFL runs an <a href=\"https:\/\/wokewagon.aflegal.org\/\">online database<\/a> of thousands of documents the organization has obtained on political appointees in the federal government. In total, 4,548 documents, 2,137 contacts, and 361 organizations are covered under this project.<\/p>\n<h2>Politicization of Federal Agencies<\/h2>\n<p>In November, Republicans from the House Judiciary Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/42-biden-admin-officials-put-on-notice-by-house-republicans_4887955.html\">sent letters<\/a> to at least 42 officials in the Biden adminis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America First Legal (AFL) is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain the records of political appointees employed at the agency, alleging that these individuals have been placed there to \u201cadvance the Biden administration\u2019s radical agenda.\u201d AFL sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the DOJ, seeking to obtain basic records and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":1919064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[12872,4724,5407,4901,4431,3753,5178],"class_list":["post-1919063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-weaponization","tag-department","tag-documents","tag-justice","tag-legal","tag-political","tag-sues"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}