{"id":83616,"date":"2021-09-09T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=83616"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:16:03","slug":"biden-administration-continues-to-violate-u-s-constitution-like-it-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=83616","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Continues to Violate U.S. Constitution Like It Doesn&#8217;t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>New Evidence Surfaces That The Biden Admin Committed To A Knowingly Unconstitutional Act<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2021\/09\/06\/did-the-biden-administration-commit-to-a-knowingly-unconstitutional-act-new-evidence-surfaces-on-the-presumed-invalidity-of-the-farm-debt-relief-provision\/\"><em>Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2021\/08\/27\/supreme-court-delivers-new-rebuke-to-the-biden-administration-in-reinstating-the-remain-in-mexico\/\">discussing a growing list of losses<\/a>\u00a0of the Biden Administration in court, a record that began soon after inauguration.<\/strong>\u00a0Most concerning is the litigation of legal claims that most legal experts viewed as unsustainable given recent Supreme Court precedent.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2021\/08\/09\/canceling-the-constitution-biden-hailed-for-violating-rule-of-law-to-extend-eviction-moratorium\/\">In one such case on the eviction moratorium<\/a>, President Biden admitted that his own White House counsel and their favorite legal experts all told him that the moratorium would clearly fail but he listened to Professor Laurence Tribe at the urging of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\u00a0 Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the \u201crule of law,\u201d Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out of the door as possible before being barred by the courts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They lost as many of us predicted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_1__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now however there is a new email that suggests that the Biden Administration may have<strong>\u00a0pushed another program that it viewed as presumptively unconstitutional<\/strong>\u00a0under controlling precedent:\u00a0<strong>the exclusion of white farmers under the debt relief program during the pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ccc005b8-0dfc-4fab-a542-64b56214ad84-AP_Black_Farmers.jpg?itok=k5c-gI1i\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ccc005b8-0dfc-4fab-a542-64b56214ad84-AP_Black_Farmers.jpg?itok=k5c-gI1i\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/ccc005b8-0dfc-4fab-a542-64b56214ad84-AP_Black_Farmers.jpg?itok=k5c-gI1i\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0a4f954d-540f-4a9a-ab34-50fcce9b88f5\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2021\/06\/13\/discrimination-at-the-hands-of-their-government-another-federal-court-has-halted-a-federal-relief-program-as-racially-discriminatory\/\">As we discussed earlier<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>the exclusion has been struck down by judges in various states as racially discriminatory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, now a document has surfaced as part of discovery by the Bader Family Foundation in its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacermonitor.com\/public\/case\/40964312\/BADER_FAMILY_FOUNDATION_v_UNITED_STATES_DEPARTMENT_OF_AGRICULTURE\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against the Agriculture Department.<\/p>\n<p>The June 2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BFF-v-USDA-Biden-transition-team-warned-black-farmer-relief-was-unconstitutional-says-Lawrence-Lucas-of-Justice-for-Black-Farmers-Group.pdf\">email<\/a>\u00a0from Lawrence Lucas of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justiceforblackfarmers.com\/about-us\">Justice for Black Farmers Group<\/a>\u00a0ends with an intriguing statement :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cPlease remember it was the Biden\/Harris transition team that you headed up that told us that debt relief for Black farmers was \u2018unconstitutional.&#8217;\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That agriculture transition team was headed by now Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However, Vilsack then proceeded to add the provision to the law while critics were denounced as effective racists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the racial preference was \u201cone of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in decades.\u201d The media also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/03\/08\/reparations-black-farmers-stimulus\/\">heralded the legislation<\/a>\u00a0without even addressing the obvious constitutional concerns over its racial classifications. Federal courts later declared it as racial discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislation included a loan-forgiveness program for farmers and ranchers under Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). The program pays up to 120% of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances for Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American or Pacific Islander farmers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the ARPA, Congress appropriated \u201csuch sums as may be necessary\u201d to pay for the cost of loan modifications and payments to \u201csocially disadvantaged\u201d farmers and ranchers. \u00a7 1005(a)(1). The term \u201csocially disadvantaged farmer or rancher\u201d is defined under 7 U.S.C. \u00a7 2279(a). \u00a7 1005(b)(3) as a farmer or rancher who is a member of a \u201csocially disadvantaged group.\u201d \u00a7 2279(a)(5).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cSocially disadvantaged group\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is then defined as \u201ca group whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities.\u201d \u00a7 2279(a)(6).<\/p>\n<p>The Biden Administration defines \u201csocially disadvantaged farmer or rancher\u201d to include individuals \u201cwho are one or more of the following: Black\/African American, American Indian, Alaskan native, Hispanic\/Latino, Asian, or Pacific Islander.\u201d American Rescue Plan Debt Payments, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmers.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.farmers.gov<\/a>\u00a0\/americanrescueplan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lawsuit was previously criticized as baseless or,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/behalf-white-farmers-trump-allies-wage-legal-war-against-equity-n1269737\">as NBC reported<\/a>, part of a \u201cwar against equity\u201d by Trump supporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the court found that the program was unambiguously discriminatory since \u201cthe only consideration in determining whether a farmer or rancher\u2019s loans should be completely forgiven is the person\u2019s race or national origin.\u201d\u00a0<strong>As such, \u201cPlaintiffs are excluded from the program based on their race and are thus experiencing discrimination at the hands of their government.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2021\/06\/13\/discrimination-at-the-hands-of-their-government-another-federal-court-has-halted-a-federal-relief-program-as-racially-discriminatory\/\">\u00a0federal judge in Wisconsin found<\/a>\u00a0on the required compelling interest that the Administration failed to state a case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, Defendants lack a compelling interest for the racial classifications. Defendants assert that \u2018Congress targeted the debt payments in Section 1005 to the minority groups that it determined had suffered discrimination in the USDA programs and that had been largely left out of recent agricultural funding and pandemic relief.\u2019 But Defendants have not established that the loan-forgiveness program targets a specific episode of past or present discrimination. Defendants point to statistical and anecdotal evidence of a history of discrimination within the agricultural industry. But Defendants cannot rely on a \u2018generalized assertion that there has been past discrimination in an entire industry\u2019 to establish a compelling interest. J.A. Croson Co., 488 U.S. at 498; see also Parents Involved, 551 U.S. at 731 (plurality opinion) (\u2018remedying past societal discrimination does not justify race-conscious government action\u2019). Defendants\u2019 evidence of more recent discrimination includes assertions that the vast majority of funding from more recent agriculture subsidies and pandemic relief efforts did not reach minority farmers and statistical disparities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>According to this email, that may also have been the conclusion of the Biden transition team before the Administration introduced the provision and declared it to be \u201cone of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in decades.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/new-evidence-surfaces-biden-admin-committed-knowingly-unconstitutional-act\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/new-evidence-surfaces-biden-admin-committed-knowingly-unconstitutional-act<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Evidence Surfaces That The Biden Admin Committed To A Knowingly Unconstitutional Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}