Justice Dept sidelines office dedicated to expanding legal aid to poor citizens: report

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY BRANDON CARTER - 02/01/18 04:44 PM EST


The Department of Justice (DOJ) has effectively shuttered an office established under former President Obama to increase the accessibility of legal aid to needy Americans, according to a new report.

People familiar with the matter told The New York Times that the Office for Access to Justice has seen its staff leave the office over the past few months and its acting director, Maha Jweied, step down from the department.

Career Justice Department employees told the Times that new administrations often change or end projects begun by previous administrations in order to reallocate resources to their own priorities. Attorney General Jeff Sessions can’t officially close the office without informing Congress, but can reallocate its resources to other divisions.

The office, which began in 2010 under former Attorney General Eric Holder, was dedicated to improving the accessibility of legal aid for the poor and needy in civil and criminal courts.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/371895-justice-dept-sidelines-office-dedicated-to-expanding-legal-aid-to

[Ohiogal]

1. Help the needy????

We can't have that! Let them hire their own lawyers! Stop the enabling nanny state! <sarc>

[Matthew28]

2. Give the rich and the elite all the power

and make the poor serfs.

That is the plan.

[Gothmog]

3. Keeping poor people from getting legal help is a key goal of the trumpies

[bluestarone]

4. and they don't even bother to hide it

Just the hell with all the people that don't have funds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[summer_in_TX]

5. GOP Grinchy Oppressive Party

War on the Poor. Damn.

Get. Him. Out.