Rep. Lance Gooden and Sen. Tommy Tuberville are introducing legislation to bar payments to third party groups as part of legal settlements made by the Justice Dept.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha responds to Attorney General Merrick Garland's claim that the DOJ is 'neutral' and 'nonpartisan' and weighs in on a Peter Strzok tweet claiming Trump should be prosecuted, but Biden should not.are introducing a bill to codify a Trump-era ban on legal settlements from the Justice Departments that involve payouts to third-party groups -- due to a fear that such payments go to"slush funds" at left-wing activist groups.
The Trump administration barred such payments, which had taken off during the Obama administration, in 2017. Republicans had accused the Obama administration of negotiating settlements that included payments to outside groups that they said pushed partisan agendas in line with the administration.DOJ SEARCHES BIDEN DELAWARE BEACH HOME AMID CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT INVESTIGATION
Representative Lance Gooden, a Republican from Texas, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, U.S., on Sunday, July 11, 2021. ." But Gooden, who has cracked down on the link between government and non-governmental organizations, said that directing legal settlements to outside groups is"nothing short of legal extortion to fund the Biden Administration’s partisan agenda.
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