Obama's Enforcer (30 page)

settlement agreements and consent decrees

collusive arrangements with advocacy groups, 210–14

“sue and settle” process, 35–40

transparency, 212–14

sexual harassment, 84–87

Shapiro, Ilya, 56

Shelby, Robert, 66

Shelby County v. Holder
, 92

Sherrod, Charles, 105

Sherrod, Shirley, 105

shoe bomber, 151–52

Sierra Club, 35

Sinaloa Cartel, 132

Siskel, Edward, 122

Slavery by Another Name
, 12

Somin, Ilya, 50

Sotomayor, Sonia, 53–54

South Carolina, voter ID law, 92

Spann, Mike, 158

special counsel appointments, 5, 6

special interest groups.
See
advocacy groups

Speer, Christopher, 157

Speulda, Philip, 16

State Department

Blackwater Worldwide, 164–66

State Department leaks, 125, 173–76

Stuxnet virus leaks, 168–69

state law and powers, 66–68

statute of limitations, 54–55

Stewart, Malcolm, 57

St. Paul, Minn. quid pro quo case, 79–80, 113–14

Strassel, Kim, 30

Stringfellow, John, 103, 107

Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), 10

Stuxnet virus leak, 167–69

“sue and settle” cases, 35–40

Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act, 213

Superior Court of District of Columbia, 13–14

Supreme Court, U.S., 50–58, 66–67, 79–80.
See also
specific cases

surveillance, 46, 53–54, 153

Swango, Natalie, 27

Sweizer, Donald, 60

 

takings of private property, 30–33, 54

Taliban, 158, 179, 180

taxation, 56

Tea Party Nation, 116

terrorism and terrorists

CIA enhanced interrogation techniques, 160–64

due process for, 151–53

FALN pardons, 153–56

lawyers hired by DOJ after pro bono work for, 156–60

Terry, Brian, 3, 122–23, 130, 140

Texas, voter ID law, 92

Thiessen, Marc, 163–64

Thomas, John, 28

Time
, 17

Tobin, Charles, 177

Tolleson, Lee Allen, 190

torture, 160–61

transparency, 167, 199, 213–14

Treasury Department, 213–14

Turley, Jonathan, 41–42, 58

Twenty-third Amendment, 43

 

Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, 32

universities and colleges, 84–88

University of Montana, 85

Univision, 148

UN Security Council, 173

Urbina, Ricardo, 165–66

U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, 54

U.S. Attorneys, 61, 138, 149

U.S. Court of Appeals, 30–31

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 104.
See also
Pigford cases

U.S. Department of Justice.
See
Justice Department

U.S. State Department.
See
State Department

U.S. Supreme Court, 50–58, 66–67, 79–80.
See also
specific cases

U.S. Treasury Department, 213–14

Utah, same-sex marriage, 66

Utility Air Regulatory Group, 39

 

Valentin, Carmen, 154

Vanderboegh, Mike, 116

Vaughn, Karen, 178

Vitter, David, 35

Volokh, Eugene, 16

von Spakovsky, Hans, 95–96, 116, 125–26

voter ID laws, 89, 90–92, 95, 98

voter registration, 89–90, 92–93

Voth, Dave, 137

voting rights, 42–46, 73, 89–94

Voting Rights Act (1965), 62–63, 90, 92, 93

 

Wall Street Journal
, 17, 80, 118, 206

Walsh, Joe, 144

Walton, Reggie, 119

warrantless searches and surveillance, 46, 49, 153, 195

Washington, D.C., voting rights, 42–46

Washington Post
, 77–78, 121, 138–40, 167, 171

Watergate scandal, 146, 147, 167, 201

Weich, Ronald, 142, 144, 145

Wertz, Becky, 76–77

West, Tony, 109, 157–58

Whelan, Ed, 44, 45, 63, 66–67

whistleblowers, 141–42

Wichita abortion clinic case, 80–81

Wide Receiver ATF Operation, 131

WikiLeaks, 133

Wilkinson, Monty, 122–23

Williams, Seth, 64

Windsor, U.S. v.
, 66–67

women, USDA discrimination case, 108–9

Worcester v. Georgia
, 216

World News Tonight
, 172

 

Yemen bombing plot leak, 169–70

Yoo, John, 203–6

York, Byron, 69

Youngstown Sheet & Tube
case, 6–7

 

Zero Dark Thirty
, 179

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JOHN FUND
is a nationally recognized columnist and author whose work has appeared in the
Wall Street Journal
,
National Review
,
Esquire
, and the
New Republic
. He has written several books that touch on Justice Department issues, including
Stealing Elections
and
Cleaning House
. He has also collaborated with bestselling authors such as Rush Limbaugh on their books.

 

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY
, now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, is a former presidential appointee to the Federal Election Commission, serving there from 2006 to 2007. He is also a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department. He is the coauthor (with John Fund) of
Who's Counting: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk
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