By james art Biden’s Department of Justice is trying to prevent the Commonwealth of Virginia from purging noncitizens from its voter rolls.
That’s right: less than a month before November’s presidential election, the Department of Justice is suing the Commonwealth for trying to prevent people who have refused to confirm their citizenship from voting.
All Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin did was comply with a 2006 state law created by none other than then-Democratic Gov. (and Hillary Clinton’s former vice president) Tim Kaine requiring the Commonwealth to remove non-citizens from their electoral rolls. Yet, for Biden’s Justice Department, enforcing it is tantamount to disenfranchisement.
In a statementYoungkin called the Justice Department’s case an “unprecedented case” designed to influence the outcome of the upcoming election. While his concerns about the Justice Department’s potential impact on the outcome of the November election are valid, characterizing it as “unprecedented” is pretentious. The Justice Department has regularly engaged in similar acts of political posturing over the past 44 months.
Most of the public is aware of the concerns of many Republicans about how the Biden-Harris administration — in the words of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) — “armed” Department of Justice v. Former President Donald Trump. In short, the Justice Department is bringing criminal charges against him for alleged mishandling of classified documents, even though it is reluctant to indict President Biden for actions that looked strikingly similar. Few know, however, that Biden’s Justice Department appears to be continuing to play politics with the law in the weeks leading up to the upcoming election.
For example, in September, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal accused Biden’s Justice Department to help the Biden-Harris administration find a scapegoat for today’s high housing prices and rents by suing landlords’ pricing software. It has been hinted that technology is responsible for today’s inflated housing and apartment costs.
However, the Wall Street Journal editorial board believes that “what’s really going on here” is not the DOJ trying to stop landlords from raising prices, but the DOJ trying to “distract voters from frustration with inflationary policies of the Biden administration.” With continued housing inflation sky jump and the biggest rent increases are coming swing states, a lot scientists agree with his assessment. It is similar to the previous administration accused “shrinking inflation” for food price spikes, Vladimir Putin for gas price hikes and landlords for increased rent rates.
Biden’s Justice Department also seems intent on working overtime to normalize the administration’s woke social justice wars agenda through the judicial system.
There is initiated many lawsuits against police and fire departments for administering “racist” written exams because minorities fail them at higher rates and “sexist” physical fitness requirements because women pass them in fewer numbers than men. These DOJ suits make the Biden-Harris administration smile, but would make anyone with a solid understanding of the law gasp.
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Biden’s Justice Department is also cracking down on states that enforce laws that limit access to “gender-affirming care” for minors. For example, it sued Tennessee against its law banning gender equality procedures for minors, claiming it violates federal civil rights.
In addition to the administration’s ongoing socialist war against “big” companies, the Justice Department also talks soft and uses a big regulatory stick against many private sector companies simply because they are popular and efficient.
The most recent example was in September court case v. Visa, which sued the company for allegedly monopolizing the debit card market, even though consumers are overwhelmed with so many debit card choices and have been for nearly two decades. Many of them simply prefer Visa’s offerings. However, the Biden-Harris administration, which cancelled the consumer welfare standard—a long-standing antitrust standard that ensures the government intervenes only when consumers face higher prices or poorer quality of service—believes that the simple act of being a big company is often reason enough the government to intervene. And over the past 44 months, the DOJ and FTC have adjusted their interpretation of the nation’s antitrust laws accordingly.
It’s unfortunate that the Department of Justice — once one of the most apolitical and trusted institutions in the country — has become nothing more than the political arm of the executive branch, but that’s the reality Americans face today. They are waking up to almost weekly reminders that there appears to be one set of laws for those caught in the crosshairs of the Biden-Harris administration and one set for everyone else. This is not just wrong; it’s anti-american.
The American experiment depends on the Republic maintaining three separate but equal branches of government and a Department of Justice to enforce federal law and dispense justice to all. If the Justice Department instead modifies its interpretations of the law to accommodate the worldviews and political ambitions of its political appointees, then little will soon separate the United States from the authoritarian regimes we are supposed to be superior to. And that’s in no one’s interest.
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Thomas Stratman, PhD is a distinguished university professor at George Mason University and holds appointments in both the GMU Department of Economics and the Antonin Scalia Law School.
The opinions expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.
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