As a tenured professor of law at Stanford University, Pamela KarlanEarned $1 million per year. We now know this. sheThe stayed on StanfordPayroll, at the same impressive salary, for the entire 17-month period sheThis is the Justice Department’s principal deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights.
KarlanLeft herDOJ posted on July 1, just one-day before the departmentUnder a Freedom of Information Act request, the American Accountability Foundation received documents that were revealed to it. herUnorthodox and ethically questionable arrangement with the Biden administration
Karlan is a radical Leftist. She was a political appointee to DOJ and threatened to sue Arizona Senate for its audit of the 2020 elections in Maricopa County. This absurdly claimed that the audit violated the Voting Right Act. She was also behind DOJ’s latest lawsuit against Arizona for trying to verify the citizenship of its voters.
Karlan has been opposed to efforts to ensure the integrity of our elections for many years and is not afraid to play loose with the facts. In the 1990s, Karlan, a private attorney, tried to overturn the convictions of Greene County Democrats, Alabama for vote fraud. These local Democrats had stolen votes from black voters in local elections.
She stated that the George W. Bush administration had refused to enforce the Voting rights Act for five years, except in one case on behalf white voters. In reality, however, the Bush administration filed many more voting cases that the Obama administration. Karlan was also a member of the Obama administration. Justice DepartmentAlso,
The FOIA documents raise serious ethical questions. As a senior citizen, you are supposedly working full-time. Justice DepartmentKarlan, who was also working for the public’s best interest, had made an official promise to do so. Stanford UniversityIndirectly, university donors funded her extravagant salary.
This arrangement creates the conditions for conflicts of interests. For example, StanfordAmicus brief filed in lawsuit by Asian American students against Harvard University for its racially discriminatory admissions policies. Stanford supports and engages in the same discriminatory behavior, claiming it “is essential to achieving the educational mission” of Stanford. The Supreme Court heard the case. Justice DepartmentAlso, an amicus brief was filed arguing that such racially discriminatory acts do not violate the Civil Rights Act of 644. Karlan’s name is on that brief as the “Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General.”
Karlan, a senior DOJ lawyer took a position that appeared to be designed to protect the university paying her $1,000,000 a year from any possible liability and allow the university’s admissions policies to continue to discriminate. Such a position does not serve the public’s interest as a whole, and certainly does not serve the interests of the Asian American students who are being kept out of elite schools like StanfordBecause of the color of their skin.
In normal circumstances, such an arrangement could be considered a criminal offense under 18 U.S.C. § 209. Per the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, this statute “prohibits [federal] employees from being paid by someone other than the United States for doing their official Government duties.” As the Government Accountability Office says, citing a 1922 attorney general opinion, “no Government official or employee should serve two masters to the prejudice of his unbiased devotion to the interests of the United States.”
The However, Justice DepartmentKarlan was temporarily transferred to her federal position by the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (5 U.S.C. § 3372). This statute allows an executive branch department to appoint, in addition to state and local government employees, “an employee of an institution of higher education to a Federal agency.”
Karlan continued to be paid her salary, however. StanfordThe Justice DepartmentShe donated $183,100 of her federal salary to the university
StanfordIt has a substantial endowment. Why did the administration feel compelled to give Karlan’s government salary to the school? And what gives Justice the right to make a $183,100 “donation” to StanfordBecause Congress clearly didn’t authorize public funds being spent for that purpose,
For some, this may appear as a shell game. It is reminiscent of the money laundering schemes pursued by the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Karlan was being paid one million dollars and protected Stanford’s interests while working as a federal employee. The federal government paid her an official government salary to a university which has received billions in federal grants over the years.
The Office of Professional Responsibility at Justice DepartmentShould investigate ethical issues raised by Karlan’s appointment. department’s inspector general. If the House, under current or future leadership, holds oversight hearings of this nature Department of JusticeThey can also add it to the ever-growing list.
Originally published by The Washington Times.
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