The Department of Justice sent immigration court employees a link to a white nationalist website in an email this week, BuzzFeed News reported Thursday.
Well, at least it tells us what sort of websites those Trump appointees like to read.
Thatâs my shocked face. (Well, actually, Bill Haderâs shocked face.)
I am more shocked that they didnât provide a link to a youtube video of âTriumph of the Willâ.
I hear that âTwo Girls And A Tiki Torchâ is quite the rage among them.
Iâm glad TPM caught this. I caught wind of it on Twitter and was horrified.
Another day in the Trump administration.
Iâm surprised theyâre not distributing the NAMBLA newsletter to family court judges.
Ladies and gentlemen, your daily embarrassment.
White nationalist president staffs government with white supremacists.
Well, when you got Fred Flintstone running the DOJâŚ
I am also horrified. Will there be any real consequences for this inexcusable behavior? Or, will some lackey be identified to carry the blame with the DOJ announcing, âcase closed?â (I think I already know the answer.)
Itâs still only Thursday.
This wasnât done to shock or alarm - nor was it done in error. It was done because the person doing it had no idea there was a problem with the web site or its material.
One of my nieces (by marriage) is married to a guy who had a clerical job at the county courthouse here locally. It was a great job with good benefits, his first job out of college and probably the best job he was ever going to have. He lost it because he bragged to someone at work about âJewingâ someone down in a negotiation over a car - bragged to the wrong person. He was completely flummoxed and told me after the fact that he did not understand how he could lose his job over using a phrase that is just common English. When he was told it was a racial slur he just couldnât believe it.
This is what we are talking about in many of these cases.
the news briefings âare compiled by a contractor and the blog post should not have been included."
So either nobody reviews the compilation and the DOJ simply sends it out as is, or somebody does review it and the DOJ had not problem sending a link to a white supremacist site.
Iâll go with door #2.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration said the immigration judges union should be decertified entirely.
Of course they did. Get in line now, judges, cause your union is taking a dive before too long.
William Barrâs Justice Dept. Theyâre going to have to have an exorcist in after he leaves.
Door #1 @lastroth.
Sounds like the contractor compiles a morning read of relevant materials.
So⌠Looks like some contractor also scans a bit around the white supremacist side of things.
Theyâre probably going to have to raze the White House, DOJ, and all the rest. Good thing new Air Force 1s are on the way, can burn the old ones.
No simple exorcism is going to work here, the infestation is way too deep.
EOIR Assistant Press Secretary Kathryn Mattingly told TPM in a statement that the news briefings âare compiled by a contractor and the blog post should not have been included. The Department of Justice condemns Anti-Semitism in the strongest terms.â
Ah the old Walmart excuse. It was bullsh@t then and it is bullsh@t now.
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Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg noted that none of the workers were employed directly by Walmart. He said the retailer has taken steps to ensure its contractors treat their employees fairly.
Settle down now.
I mean, itâs not as if the United States Department of Justice sent the federal bench a racist screed full of anti-Semitic slurs or anything.
The story âfeatures links and content that directly attacks sitting immigration judges with racial and ethnically tinged slurs and the label âKritarch,'â the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), Ashley Tabaddor, wrote.
Well, then, I guess I stand correctedâŚ
Whatâs that phrase? Oh, yeah ⌠âAll the best people.â
So, someone at the DOJ is sending out emails linking to racist stories criticizing immigration judges, and is dumb enough to send the story to the judges? First of all, that kind of thing doesnât happen unless the culture has encouraged it, so the fact that it showed up in an email shows what is brewing in the DOJ right now. And, thatâs a pretty sad statement, because it should be impossible to have that kind of change in two years, which means the culture was already leaning in that direction before Trump was elected. Second, it shows complete arroganceâŚwhoever sent that figured it was just fine to send it out to a bunch of judges, likely because they figured the judges would agree with the sentiment. And, third, itâs pretty incompetent, which again says a lot about the DOJ right now.
Whenever the Democrats get back in they are going to have to clean house, we need a justice system that is blind and itâs clear that the current iteration leans far too conservative to be healthy for the nation, and that was likely true even before Barr took over and started wielding it as a weapon for Trump.