Biden plan to restore the corrupt DOJ slush fund should stop now

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The Biden administration is putting a knife into sound public policy by reinstating the Obama Justice Department’s biased and subjective “settlements slush fund.”

In 2015, I served as counsel to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and helped end it. So I was disappointed to see President Biden move on day one to reinstate one of the greatest grifts of the Obama years: forcing corporate defendants to donate billions of dollars to politically biased left-wing causes. However, I was not surprised. Democrats are experts at harnessing the bureaucracy to subsidize and advance their agenda.

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