Legal group asks Michigan State Bar to investigate Rashida Tlaib’s law license over recent statements

Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) could soon face an investigation and possible sanctions by the Michigan State Bar.

The nonpartisan legal group Coolidge Reagan Foundation is asking the state attorney general to open an investigation into anti-Semitic comments made by Rep. Tlaib, who in addition to being one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress is an active attorney in Michigan.

Dan Backer, the foundation’s attorney, said Fox News the original member of the Democratic radical left team has “clearly violated” the Michigan Bar Code of Ethics with his rhetoric and that people who spread “vile, anti-Semitic lies to incite hatred of a people” should be held accountable.

Explaining that he came across Tlaib’s remarks while watching “some of these snotty kids” at Harvard and Columbia law schools, Backer said he was outraged.

“I was reading … what she was saying, and I was like, ‘You know, this is really outrageous. How’s he doing?’” he said. “And then I remember, ‘Well, she’s in Michigan, I wonder if she’s a lawyer.’

“And I looked for it and it was,” Backer continued. “And so we talked about it internally. We realized that people have to be responsible.”

Stating the obvious in post-Obama America, Backer said the “fundamental problem” today is that “people do horrible things … and they’re never held accountable.”

Backer sits on the board of Accuracy in Media and commented that Harvard students called the nonprofit to request that their name be removed from the organization’s “so-called doxxing truck” for sign a letter in support of Hamas.

“The sooner you start putting cameras in people’s faces, they stop,” he explained.

“When people see accountability for their bad actions, you get fewer bad actors,” Backer said. “I think that’s really essential, and probably this generation of kids and fools hasn’t really experienced it yet.”

The only problem with this theory is that Tlaib and his ilk exist for the sole purpose of drawing attention to their failed agenda and are counting on the media to turn their backs on them when they get out of trouble.

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