Once again, the Biden administration has its priorities all mixed up.
Fortunately, a group of influential Republican senators is determined to learn why the Justice Department punished three deputy U.S. marshalls for doing their jobs.
The Justice Department placed the deputies on limited duty after opening an investigation into their actions to defend a federal courthouse from Antifa rioters eager to burn it down. The decision came despite the commendations and excellent evaluations the three marshalls had received from their superiors.
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the senators declared, “the timing of this decision is inherently suspect, appears politically motivated, and smacks of retaliation.”
A press release from Sen. Grassley, the longest-serving Senate Republican in office, adds:
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined colleagues in demanding to know why the Justice Department placed three deputy U.S. Marshals (DUSMs) on limited duty and opened an investigation into a use-of-force incident during the defense of the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon in July 2020. The questions were raised in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and cosigned by Grassley and Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Kennedy (R-La.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
“According to information that we’ve been given, these DUSMs have never been reprimanded for their actions in Portland; to the contrary, they received the Director’s Award, received outstanding or excellent evaluations in 2020, and had been subsequently deployed on numerous dangerous missions as part of the USMS Special Operations Group, including to other cities where there was anticipated civil unrest. Accordingly, the timing of this decision is inherently suspect, appears politically-motivated, and smacks of retaliation,” the senators wrote.
“In addition, before they were confirmed, Associate Attorney General, Vanita Gupta, and Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, made concerning comments about the riots at the Portland courthouse that could create a conflict with their involvement in any decision relating to these DUSMs,” the senators continued.
The full letter can be found HERE.
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Donny Ferguson is a professional fundraiser and organizational manager. Born and raised in Texas, he has lived in Washington, D.C. for 16 years. Ferguson also served as Senior Communications and Policy Adviser in the United States House of Representatives, operating one of Capitol Hill's most effective media operations.
Hopefully , Peter Doocy will quiz psukee on this. I love watching a communists’ blood boil.
biden and his whole administration are WRONG about everything.
Maybe the village idiot biden wouldn’t investigate if antifa burned his house down.
Antifa attempting to burn down a Federal Courthouse was true Insurrection. What happened on Jan. 6th, in my opinion, was not!
Why is anyone surprised at this? The left wing bleeding heart liberals bend over backward to suck up to the blacks in order to keep their votes. There is something wrong when our country allows 13% of our population to determine what the other 87% can say, do, and even think. They are pushing this country towards that second civil/race war that has been brewing for years now, and it will be another blood bath, even more so than the first one.
Antifa is mainly white though. It’s not really that Democrats suck up to blacks so much as that they have few or no enemies to their left. Non-progressive blacks such as Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, and Candace Owens are castigated as traitors, even – illogically enough – as white supremacists! The “Left” knows what it wants and isn’t about to let silly little things like truth and logic get in its way.