Monday, August 25, 2014

Did National Review’s Ryan Lovelace Plagiarize VDARE’s Federale? I Reprint, You Decide!

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

By the way, I initially thought Tabaddor was smiling, when I saw her picture. She's not; rather, she's cold as ice.
 

Federale, on August 17, 2014
 

Iranian-American Immigration Judge Ashley Tabaddor In Hot Water Ordered To Recuse Herself On Iranian Cases, Files “Civil Rights” Beef
By Federale
August 17, 2014
VDARE
 

 

A. Ashley Tabaddor, one of the kritarch triumvirate I exposed in Obama’s Immigration “Judges” Plan Their Own Administrative Amnesty, has pushed the limits of legal ethics, even for the Holder Justice Department. Tabaddor has been ordered by the Executive Officer for Immigration Review (EOIR) to recuse herself in all cases before her involving Iranian nationals.

This is no surprise, as “ethnic” immigration judges have a collective horrible reputation for dispensing favoritism to their co-ethnics throughout the immigration system.

Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans August 12, 2014

Judge Ashley Tabaddor Files Suit against Department of Justice for Violating First Amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1964

August 12, 2014, Los Angeles, CA – The Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) was today informed of a suit filed against the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) by Judge Ashley Tabaddor, an immigration judge for the U.S. Immigration Court. In this suit, Judge Tabaddor challenges an order that indefinitely recuses her from hearing cases involving Iranian nationals, citing that the order violates her First Amendment rights of free speech and association. The suit also notes that the order is racially discriminatory under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Interesting that Tabaddor claims racial discrimination as the basis for her lawsuit; is she claiming she is white and was discriminated against, or is she some new unknown race that Middle Easterners like herself want to be? She has shrilly claimed to not be white, despite the legal definition of Persians, among others, as white by the U.S. Census. [Race Matters: Are Middle Easterners Really White? by Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor, Levantine Cultural Center, February 20, 2010].

The PAAIA appears to be a front for the Shi’ite dictatorship in Iran, harping in a Soviet manner about “friendship” between nations.

The lessons derived from the Cold War propose that more assets should be dedicated to cultural and educational exchanges. Such exchanges with Iran will uphold positive features of American society and help cultivate the good will of the Iranian people towards America.

The Iranian American community is in a unique position to help the citizens of Iran and the United States constructively engage with each other. PAAIA’s annual surveys have shown that U.S.-Iran relations are the single most important issue on the minds of Iranian Americans, and that many frequently travel to Iran and/or have relatives still living there. Furthermore, the evolving political climate in Iran, if it continues on its current path, puts the Iranian American diaspora in a much better position than in any prior period since 1979 to help the citizens of Iran and the United States constructively engage with each other.

However, the PAAIA lets slip that Tabaddor considers herself a “leader” in the Iranian community.

The suit, Tabaddor v. Holder et al., [PDF] charges that the DOJ based its disqualification order on racially-motivated and discriminatory criteria, specifically Judge Tabaddor’s Iranian heritage and her leadership role within the Iranian American community.

Well, if she is a leader of an ethnic or national group, then legal ethics prescribe that she recuse herself to avoid the appearance of impropriety, a serious ethical issue for both real judges and the pseudo-judges of the EOIR. One cannot both be a leader in a particular ethnic community and claim that leadership has no appearance of a lack of impartiality. It is clear that Tabaddor considers herself an Iranian first, as Iranian-ness appears to be her major concern in public life.

In desperation, Tabaddor and her Iranian attorney, Ali M. M. Mojdehi, created a new race for the law suit:

18. Judge Tabaddor is Iranian-American. Her race is Near East Asian, Middle Eastern and Persian. Judge Tabaddor is culturally Muslim.

Even more interesting is that she is “culturally” a Muslim. The 1964 Civil Rights Act does not protect cultures, as it does race or religion. And it is clear that Islam is not that important for Tabaddor, as she does not claim to practice the Muslim religion. This lack of religious practice is probably the reason that the lawsuit does not identify any particular evidence that she was discriminated against by race or religion, even though the lawsuit claims discrimination based on three factors:

52. Judge Tabaddor’s nationality, race, and/or religion and association with the same, were the sole and/or motivating reasons for the recusal order.

Note the “and/or.” apparently her crackerjack attorneys can’t decide which of the three was the reason for the alleged recusal order. Occam’s Razor then leads us to the obvious, it is the appearance of a lack of impartiality that motivated the recusal order.

Which brings us to the obvious, immigrants in the United States have not been acculturated and have an obvious dual loyalty. In this case, the dual loyalty is treasonous in that Iran has been waging war on the United States since 1979.

The solution, beside denaturalization and deportation of Tabaddor, is the first step, impeachment.

Tabaddor is the face of dual loyalty. As Holy Scripture teaches, one cannot serve two masters. From Matthew 6:24, Douay-Rheims:

No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 

Tabaddor cannot both serve the Iranian community as a leader and the American people as an immigration judge who is tasked with ordering the deportation of Iranians.

The big hint here is that the PAAIA refers to her as Judge Ashley Tabaddor, while in the lawsuit, she is required by law to user her full name, Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor. Clearly she is trying to downplay her Persian identity before the American people, but gets caught up by her lawsuit.

Impeachment is the answer to many problems derived from lawless Presidents to disloyal kritarchs.
 

Ryan Lovelace, on August 22, 2014
 

August 22, 2014 7:19 PM
Immigration Judge Sues Justice Department for Anti-Iranian Discrimination
Iranian-American judge believes Iranians are not white; claims Holder DOJ disciplined her for being a proud Persian.
By Ryan Lovelace
NRO

An immigration judge in California claims the Justice Department disciplined her because of her heritage and an appearance she made at the White House. Afsaneh Ashley Tabaddor, a judge for the U.S. Immigration Court in Los Angeles, is suing the DoJ to challenge its order that she indefinitely recuse herself from hearing cases involving Iranian nationals.

In her complaint, Tabaddor says that in the summer of 2012 she was invited to an event titled, “Roundtable with Iranian-American Community Leaders,” held by the White House Office of Public Engagement. While the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EIOR) permitted her one day of leave to attend the event, EOIR recommended she subsequently be recused from all cases, and cease to be assigned any cases, involving Iranian nationals, according to the complaint. When she protested the request, the complaint says, the Justice Department made it an order.

“This truly is unprecedented and extraordinary,” says Ali Mojdehi, Tabaddor’s lawyer. “Mind you this judge was a former prosecutor and you know she went on the immigration bench in ’05 and she has an impeccable record.” Tabaddor, who was appointed as an immigration judge in November 2005 by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, declined to comment citing DOJ policy prohibiting her from speaking to the press.

The Los Angeles immigration court where Tabaddor practices has a backlog of 309 cases involving Iranian nationals, according to data compiled as of June 30, 2014, by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, says she does not know if any of the backlog resulted because of the DOJ order, but says she knows Tabaddor has had cases involving Iranian nationals removed from her docket and had cases assigned elsewhere.

Mojdehi says Tabaddor, who was born in Tehran and immigrated to the United States at the age of 10, made the decision to move forward with a lawsuit after an Equal Employment Opportunity investigation sided with DOJ. He says he challenges the reasoning of the investigation and points to an affidavit signed by JuanCarlos M. Hunt, EOIR’s director of EEO and Diversity Programs. In it, Hunt said the matter was not brought to his attention until after Tabaddor filed the complaint, and had he known sooner he would have changed the order because he viewed it as discriminatory regardless of the order’s intent.   

An EOIR spokesperson tells National Review Online the office will not comment on pending litigation. Jeffrey Rosenblum, former chief counsel of EOIR’s Employee/Labor Relations Unit and now EOIR’s general counsel, gave Tabaddor the order to recuse herself in an email, according to the complaint. The complaint says Rosenblum’s email said in part, “[Tabaddor] should disqualify [herself] from cases involving respondents from Iran to avoid any appearance problems.” He went on to explain that the general counsel’s office was not suggesting that Tabaddor had an actual bias.

Tabaddor’s outspoken comments regarding how she identifies herself may provide greater insight about her motivation. Tabaddor’s complaint identifies her race as “Near East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Persian,” but the U.S. Census Bureau says a person having origins in the original people of the Middle East should legally be identified as “white.” In a 2010 article titled, “Race Matters: Are Middle Easterners Really White?” Tabaddor, who is also an adjunct law professor at UCLA, complained that the television show Beverly Hills 90210 did not have an Iranian-American character despite being set in an area with a large and prominent Iranian-Americans population.

“Being legally ‘White,’ therefore, has created an additional obstacle for the Middle Eastern community in trying to achieve equality in the United States,” Tabaddor wrote. “By accepting ‘White’ as an identity, the community has been placated into silence, believing that it is part of the majority voice, leaving it disarmed in times when its members need protection the most. The ‘whiteness’ has essentially whitewashed the identity of the Middle-Eastern community to the detriment of its social and political voice in America.”

Hundreds of thousands of people of Iranian descent reportedly live in Southern California. The large concentration of Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles County has led to the nickname “Tehrangeles,” and the City of L.A. has officially dubbed a Westwood location “Persian Square.”

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, whose department is charged with the alleged discrimination, has spoken at great length about how his life experiences as a black man influence his view of justice. But he has not so far commented on what, if any, insights he might have, as a non-white person, into the unique Iranian-American experience.

— Ryan Lovelace is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow at the National Review Institute.
 
N.S. I think Lovelace and NRO got some ‘splainin’ to do!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ashley. Her whitey name.

She needs to stop using that name.

You would think she would voluntarily recuse herself in ALL cases involving Iranians. But she did not.

She needs to be removed from all judicial activity.

Anonymous said...

Ashley had better not let those mullahs in Tehran see that picture of her. They might have a fatwa declared against her for being too sexy.