The counter-group to the leftist Lawfare team, organized by Stephen Miller, is called “America First Legal.” Today the Miller group filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for racial discrimination against farmers and ranchers in the COVID relief bill.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas to stop the Biden Administration from administering a program created by Congress in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 that discriminates against American citizen farmers and ranchers based upon their race. Specifically, Sections 1005 and 1006 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provide benefits to farmers and ranchers, but excludes many potential beneficiaries based solely upon their ethnicity or race.
AFL President Stephen Miller issued the following statement:
America First Legal opposes discrimination in all forms. We hold fast to the immortal words of Martin Luther King Jr. that Americans “should not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” These soul-stirring words are now inscribed onto the heart of every American. And they flow directly from the Declaration of Independence’s recognition that all men are created equal. And they are embodied by AFL’s founding charter. MLK’s vision is fundamental to our democracy, in which all citizens are equal both in front of the law and in the eyes of their Creator. For this reason, AFL is filing a lawsuit today against the Biden Administration to prevent it from administering programs created under the American Rescue Plan Act that discriminate against American farmers and ranchers based upon the basis of race. As Chief Justice John Roberts plainly avowed, “[T]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” With today’s lawsuit against the Biden Administration, AFL makes clear that it will defend MLK’s vision, our Constitutional order, and the civil rights of all citizens.
The Constitution forbids government action that discriminates based upon race. Yet the Biden Administration’s Department of Agriculture—aided by the new Congress—is actively engaging in outright racial discrimination. While Congress is permitted to provide loan forgiveness and certain additional benefits to farmers and ranchers, Americans of all races and ethnicities must have the opportunity to receive them. (read more)
Will the make believe black farmers get hundreds of millions in COVID relief bill who were never farmers because of whitey ?
Again!
I work in Southside Virginia area and North Carolina and there are many hard working farmers with dark skin. Many more black folk farmers then you might think. But I also will tell you these bubba brothers are very MAGA.
Side challenge for the day, try to find a atheist or agnostic farmer. You might find some somewhere but I doubt it. It takes real faith in the Lord of Glory to own large tracts of land and plant in it year to year and generation to generation.
I’m sure officially they at least have to pretend that in China.
Another reason we need to make sure we don’t lose our farmers.
They want all production in the hands of the mega corps, we cannot let that happen or then they REALLY can control us easily
You realize the 2nd amendment doesn’t even matter if we can’t control food and manufacturing?
If they can starve us or set any price they want on our food, we are controlled
They can also ensure the conservatives get low quality food laced with even more dangerous GMOs.
I hope you don’t mind, but I did a snapshot of your comment on my blog. I’d honestly never considered that control over a strategic resource is, perhaps, even more important than ammo.
Now, I’m starting to think about access to water, and water treatment. And, controlling the flow of that water, from source to the last mile.
About time I got concerned.
https://rau-tng.blogspot.com/2021/04/something-to-think-about.html
why do you think Bill Gates bought up all that farmland? after Bill s run in with obummer s unjustice dept he s realized being part of the team of traitors has a higher upside than being on America s side
<Side challenge for the day, try to find a atheist or agnostic farmer.>
Look for farmers that lose money…they never have prophets.
I was referring to the pretenders who never intended to be farmers but got millions from Osama in the farmer scam.
AKA the Pigford Settlements of 1999 and 2010.
I believe is was called “Pigford” cases, 50k+ to black families who were refused a farming license. (side note: Bruce Springstein claims his home in Rumson NJ as a farm simply by keeping a goat or two) At one point in time there was a small housing project in The Bronx in which every family in the building received a Pigford check.
A scam is a scam, period.
I think I remember the obama reign of horror doing something similar. But it ended up being anyone who had a garden “plot” or flower bed sized veg garden. Then they wanted to tax it as farm land or something like that.
Bingo
They got millions for having a flower bed or wanted to farm but blamed white people who would not let them.
Pigford something or other
The Obama admin did the same thing. They billions to black farmers. Most of who lived it high risers in N.Y. I kid you not.
Pigford vs USDA…it was what turned Andrew Brietbart into a conservative!!
More on that:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/06/pigford_the_unexamined_obama_administration_scandal.html
“Pigford has the distinction of being an out-of-control waste of taxpayer funds and/or a cynical attempt by the Obama administration to curry favor with certain minority groups to which neither President Obama nor Attorney General Eric Holder can plead ignorance of involvement. Both have had knowledge since the court ruled on the Pigford lawsuit; in 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama supported and voted for the funding of the initial settlement. Since then, Eric Holder (and Obama) have been involved in overseeing and managing the Pigford “judgment fund.”“
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“Pigford began innocently enough: as a lawsuit to redress a perceived wrong against a group of 91. But then the number climbed to 400….then 1,600…then… The number of black farmers has metastasized — nay, exploded — and the aggrieved group now includes not only blacks, but Hispanics, Native Americans, and females. In fact over 90,000 people have filed claims seeking a payment under the terms of the original Pigford court ruling. That decision, now referred to as Pigford #1, was anticipated to cost approximately $120 million, including legal fees.
“Pigford #2 is the appellation used to identify an expanded payment regime that funds more payments to African-Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and females. This regimen grew out of the fact that thousands of claimants missed the original Pigford #1 filing deadline of October 12, 1999. Interestingly, Native American potential claimants were estimated at 5,300, while plaintiff lawyers pegged the exposure at an estimated 19,000 Native Americans. The judgment fund announced by Agricultural Secretary Thomas Vilsack and Eric Holder in 2010 was expanded from just over $120 million to $1.25 billion, given the expectation of many more filers.
“However, the explosion of claimants has caused payouts to reach $4.4 billion and has swelled legal fees to over $130 million. More importantly, the claim’s process created a rush to get a share of the monies allocated to the judgment fund, even if no real claim existed. Essentially, the process encouraged people to lie and spawned a cottage industry. Claimants had only to file applications for a $50,000 payment by stating that they had “thought about” applying for loans to become a farmer. Proof of a claimant’s intent to farm also included a statement from that petitioner saying he or she had attempted to farm by planting a batch of tomatoes in his or her backyard and having that statement verified by a family member. In essence, the need to be a farmer at the time of the alleged discriminatory actions by the USDA was not a requirement to share in the financial redress.
“Fraud was endemic to the claims process — for example, every apartment in a New York City building received a settlement of at least $50,000. Further, some families received checks of $50,000 for each family member (see the NYT’s fraud identification narrative of 4-26-13). These payments were dispensed by the judgment fund’s monitor, whose management and control fell to the Executive Branch and Justice Department. Due to the application vetting process, the payouts were criticized by both Representative Steve King (D-IA) and journalist Andrew Breitbart as payoffs to Obama’s/Democrats’ preferred groups to gain a favored political position with those entities.”
I had completely forgotten about this Pigford thing and it being Andrew’s jumping off point.
“…..including loan forgiveness up to 120 percent of the value of the loan—but only if they qualify as a “socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher.”
So what are the qualifications for being “socially disadvantaged?”
fit in a category that is likely democrat voter
It’s in the filing:
…Department of Agriculture has adopted a general definition of “socially disadvantaged farmer and rancher” as follows: A socially disadvantaged group is defined as: A farmer or rancher who is a member of one or more of the following groups whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their iden-tity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities:•
African Americans• American Indians• Alaskan Natives• Asians• Hispanics• Pacific Islanders
https://wordpress.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20210425-Complaint.pdf
does being sicilian count? I own 300 acres and i coud pretend to farm.
Any non-conservative.
If the Judicial doesn’t uphold the Constitution and rule of law then there are 2 remedies 1) succession 2) cw. What else is there, at this point, with these arrogant Democommunists and Rinopolists.
texas splits into 5 states per their agreement and adds 8 more repub senators.
Might only be six but will take it.
I think that would require (in addition to Texas OK’ing it) the House, the Senate and the President.
…and 3/4 of the remaining states
nope – its in their agreement with the constituion. Texas does not to ask anyones permission, nor get approval.
Amen! Finally we are going after Biden on Constitutional principles. How about Disparate Impact which is the foundation of many Obama policies. Will AFL go after this racial policy too?
Disparate Impact does not comport with science and the reasons for the gap between blacks and whites, Asians in testing, for example.
Recall, the black firemen wanting promotions didn’t score high enough to beat out the white firemen, either because they didn’t study or they didn’t comprehend the material or both.
2 can play that game (judge shopping). see how smart miller is? North Texas.
It’s tragic that judge shopping is standard procedure even on clear constitutional grounds.
Yeah but it is what it is and we have to be prepared to fight dirty to push back on their crap. The bully started it. Nobody should feel bad when they get their face smashed in.
Agree it is tragic but the judiciary did this to themselves. They themselves have shit all over the rule of law. They deserve whatever the revolution will bring.
If the “good” ones don’t like it, they should have policed themselves. It is the same solution for every other professional agency that has gone off the rails. Tough cookies if they are chagrined over us using their tactics.
Things might get better at SCOTUS, if the Justices aren’t scared compliant of being made 13 instead of 9 they might find enough integrity to uphold the Constitution on race discrimination if not State election laws.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/26/liberals-expand-supreme-court-democrats-484562
The scoTUS had their chance, and they choked like a young girl on a leather casting couch.
They will not save you. They don’t care about you.
There is nothing but SCOTUS on these matters, Miller’s lawsuit will eventually be decided by them.
Who cares if he wins or loses. He is throwing sand in the gears. This needs to be one of hundreds. If we can’t fix it then we plug it up til it oozes incompetence everywhere.
This is the game the left plays. The lefties have been doing this with environmental law for decades.
As SD says repeatedly, the process IS the punishment. Now it is our turn.
Friends, its time to identify as a black farmer, and those four tomato plants in my backyard are now rows of soy crops.
Where’s my money at!!??? GIMME!!!!
Be careful what you wish for
The price of government gimmes?
Look at any city controlled by Dems, AKA one of our top 20 “murder capitals,” and decide how much you want to enter into the cycle of dependency
Everyone needs to escape what Dems have done (purposely) to blacks, not enter into it
Dems don’t give your taxes to anyone without making sure the recipient is owned and trapped for generations
John R Bakey (a Bernie Sanders supporter) is involved in the Maricopa audit. He had a very impressive interview with Steve Bannon and Bannon’s Warroom (Episode 903). This gentleman certainly has the right attitude about a true election.
https://www.auditelectionsusa.org/
https://rumble.com/vg63hz-episode-903-the-diesel-dupe-of-elections-w-cpt.-maureen-bannon-john-brakey-.html
This is long long overdue. Now we need a raft of civil right lawsuits re gov related illegal surveillance and political prosecutorial targeting.
Also lifting the outrageous anonymity that ABs killer enjoys and bringing him to justice. A possible suspect has been IDd already.
JUST IN: Former Obama White House Adviser Arrested
For wire fraud, money laundering, false statements acc to SDNY!
https://conspatriots.com/just-in-former-obama-white-house-adviser-arrested/
What generally happens with this kind of BS. The White Farmer who wants to farm goes in partners or financial arrangement with the Black “farmer” who doesn’t want to farm…..and everyone but the taxpayers are happy.
Just like affirmative action that includes women. White men who own a construction company just make their wife “president”. Voila’ – female-owned.
I wonder if that’s how Marjorie got her business experience? Didn’t she run or co-own a construction company or something?
If so that sure backfired on the Left
Would be funny if that were the case
The Left is so beatable
All their schemes backfire
They are beatable and it’s time to prove it
…OR, the Black farmer gets the loan and contracts all the work out from wherever… No matter the skin color, you’d be amazed and astounded at the names and locations of beneficiaries of government farm/ranch programs. Some of them “farm” or “ranch” 1,000’s of acres, and the amounts they sometimes receive are staggering! Frequently, women who never step foot on the soil also receive these preferential loans!
I was a farmer, Dad before me and Grandpa before him in the richest farming region in the World….Central California. Believe me I know how it works. You learn to farm the land and you learn to farm the Government.
Personally, I wish the Government was completely out of farming. The Big Multi-Nationals control it all as Sundance has expertly explained. Agriculture in the US is juts one big giant political football.
Farm subsidies are the same as welfare. Also the same as minimum wage. The subsidy floor also becomes the ceiling. Another example; Can you imagine the money Bill Gates received from the 28-billion Chinese Tariff money?
Stephen Miller gave Sean Spicer this scoop yesterday on Spicer’s show (NewsMax).
Stephen Miller starts at 2 minutes in, but the first 2 minutes gives one a glimpse of what Team Trump is doing now (much good stuff…) –
“BREAKING: Biden SUED by Trump advisor over this discriminatory policy” 9:01
Nice. Clean up on aisle four.
According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture:
Farm producers total 3.4 Million.
White 3.1 Million
Hispanic 112k
Native, Indian or Alaskan 58k
Asian 22k
Black 45k
More than 1 race 26k
95% of farmers are White ethnicity.
Like Rodney Dangerfield said, I get no respect. And thankfully AFL is standing up for the new little guy.
You can’t cure racism with racism; only with respect for the individual and individual rights can that blight be ended. With my Slavic roots, I too can claim victimhood as my ancestral kin were abducted in the hundreds of thousands by the Ottoman Turks (the etymology of the term slave comes from Slavic, overwhelming the Latin term from the upper class of Rome to denote their servants). However, I have no time to waste on victimhood; it bores me.
Go to it AFL and kick some hypocritical ass; those Democrats never want to end racism.
Exactly
And it’s COVID money, all races were affected by scamdemic
Sue like the wind, Miller
This is evil racist crap
YES!! I hope this is the first of MANY suits filed against the “Resident-in-Chief” and all of his overlords and underlings!!
how far Biden going to take down Our country,
Thank. God finally are going to after fake president B,
Stephen Miller deserves so much credit.
His AFLegal group is also working with Ken Paxton (Texas Attorney General) on a lawsuit they filed against the Biden administration regarding releasing illegals into the US without testing or the jab.
In the suit about farmer/rancher discrimination, the plaintiff is Sid Miller, Texas Agriculture Commissioner. He is a FULL-ON Trump supporter and a no-nonsense guy!!
I saw a pic of Ken Paxton and PDJT on the golf course at Mara Lago (from about 2 months ago). I knew then that President Trump was getting lots done behind the scenes!
These are fighters and I am thankful for each of them!!!??????????????????
Awesome. Thanks for the update
Its a good start.
That blacks have become the new royalist class trumps the United States Constitution … … … apparently. But then, so-called “affirmative action”, which gives blacks an humongous amount of privilege points, even in medical schools, did that quite some time ago.
Lets not get uppity there, white boy.
Doing great things Mr. Miller.
The Farmers were just the beginning, Biden and the Democrats have an agenda to “Reimagine Capitalism” aka Equity Justice. Their agenda has two goals reparations and socialism, sadly most major corporations are on board with this. All this White Privilege and racial BS is a must right now to accomplish their agenda. I encourage everyone to research “Reimagine Capitalism” so that you are not taken by surprise when it happens. “Reimagine” is the keyword for all that is evil and you will hear it a lot over the next few months.
Maggiemoowho: Yes, “reimagine” means it costs more, you get less, and you’ll be paying for it forever.
I’m going to donate.
Obviously Stephen Miller knows this is exactly what the Left teaches is the way to get your rights.
So Juan Williams’ Eyes on the Prize outlines in a heroic fashion how brigades of lawyers got equlity for black people.
And that’s been taught in major universities for decades and I’m sure there’s a whole industry of those types of books, only they devolved into such crooked shenanigans, totally fallen from justice.
So now it is TIME to do the same for ALL people and I’m proud of Miller for taking this on.
This is true courage and it’s about time.
It’s really a bit overdue, and the effort needs to be HUGE. Brigades of lawyers pushing nonstop lawsuits are a MUST.
For all who say “well, judges are crooked now” wanting to throw in the towel before trying …SORRY. This is how you do it. You do the lawsuits NON STOP and then you have to amplify what you’re doing by publicizing the injustice.
The farmers and ranchers are barely hanging on.
You realize the JOEBAMA EFFORT TO BANKRUPT FARMERS AND RANCHERS IS FURTHER HELPING THE CORPORATE PLANTATIONS FULL OF BIDEN-PELOSI ILLEGAL ALIEN SLAVES
I am so ashamed to watch evil Democrats who claim to rep those who KNOW what discrimination is like, to then do the SAME thing to people who had nothing to do with it by punishing ALL people of the same skin color. The definition of racism.
AND for it to ALSO be a part of their effort to let COVID, China and everyone else bankrupt our producers so the mega corporate illegal alien slave plantations can continue gobbling up all the land is obscene
Of course, Farmer Bill Gates, now the biggest land owner of farmland in America, also benefits for whatever his nefarious purposes are
Here is Miller’s donation page. The only thing I don’t like is it’s run by WinRed. Has anyone vetted that to make sure none goes to RINO central?
Donate to America First Legal Foundation! (winred.com)
Course, I hope they’re also concentrating on getting our right to vote back because that’s the #1 thing
How much of the 28-Billion Chinese tariff money to farmers did Bill Gates receive?
Sock puppet faker here to besmirch patriots.
This group should put out a website for donations. 100 million MAGA donors would crush the opposition. Trump should talk about it.
I grow tomatoes on my roof top deck.
Nobody gave me any Gov. cheese.
So unfair.
Gotta have whine to get cheese.
I guess, it’s OK. I like really good wine and really good cheese.
The Gov. just throws out cheap lo-carb beer and Wallmart Cheese like stuff.
Mind you, I do enjoy Velveeta in the proper place, but when I make mac’n’cheese I use good cheddars. Lots.
Keep throwing sand into the machinery!
NM
The big lie in America is that the left is winning.
The Left, the side that has nothing but failed policies, crumbling cities, and states, negative population moving to red states, rigs elections, opens borders to import voters, aligns with media to censor dissent, and intentionally radicalizes youth through brainwashing is NOT winning.
They are unequivocally desperate. Never let them demoralize you and anyone you love. That is what their goal is. Keep fighting. To paraphrase John Paul Jones, “We have only begun to fight!”
Thank God somebody is fighting back ! Jobama & his coconspirators are the explicit example of RACISM. They keep looking under every rock, and pulling Jussie Smollett with a side of Bubba, to depict an illusion of racism; but THEY are the true racists……….Are the republicans still breathing somewhere???
The chickens are coming home to roost, after all:
Obama White House advisor Seth Andrew arrested and charged with embezzlement…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/obama-white-house-advisor-seth-andrew-arrested-and-charged-with-embezzlement/
This is long over due this is so racist against white farmers.
This is another way for the Illegal President to punish American farmers per the CCP for 3+ yrs of making them pay farmers.
How about farmers find different markets around the world and stop selling to food to the CCP
That’s what we here in Australia have done.The CCP tried to punish us for standing up to them.They refused to accept our goods,so we went and found new customers.Boy are they pi$$ed of with us.
This is refreshing. Most universit ies violate title VI and VII of the civil rights act every day!
American First Legal may want to hop on down to maricopa county and offer their expertise against the “100 lawyers” that were sent to thwart the audit down there. No doubt those 100 lawyers are Lawfare and ‘beach friends’. We have seen this play before. Flynn’s case comes to mind.
Excuse my ignorance but is there such a thing as black farmers?
Yes. Black farmers and black cowboys, have been around forever. Side note – Nate Loves story is pretty neat.
They do not fit the left narrative of black people so they are ignored.
LOL
That filing is masterful. I particularly enjoyed the reference to Elizabeth Warren’s miniscule amount of native American DNA.
Question is, will the court do the correct thing, or will it introduce a blivet of Pretzel Logic to support another one of OBiden’s illegal social justice programs?
Push back at last!
This is awesome.
I have said for years the right will never win because they will not get in the trenches and get some dirt on themselves.
You have to throw their crap right back in their face. Is it juvenile? Yes. Does it work? Most certainly.
The high road is nothing more than a head on the end of a long pike.
Sounds like good news for my dark-skinned farming neighbors….who happen to be immigrant Sikh. If the existing subsidies aren’t sufficient, I trust they’ll make good use of this new cash cow. I wonder if that was what the loud party across the road a few days ago was about. Live band and Indian music at the mansion. Seriously. Very tight community. None who were my customers ever discussed politics and always paid on time. Or is this only for dark skin of the African type?
Pig-gate all over again ?
The demokkkrats are still the party of racism.
he is letting china buy up all our farmland same as that pos obama.