Center for Policy and Law Enforcement
A U.S. District Judge in Virginia has rejected the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy’s (IRmep) request to file an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief in the Espionage Act case against two former AIPAC lobbyists. United States District Judge T.S. Ellis III issued a formal order stating that briefs from non-parties would not help him resolve the issues in the case because both parties’ “extensive briefs on the various constitutional arguments thoroughly cover the subject and assure that the issues . . . have been fully explicated.”
“Judge Ellis doesn’t currently feel the need for outside briefs, and that’s certainly his prerogative” said IRmep director of research, Grant F. Smith. “IRmep’s offer to discuss how AIPAC has evolved into a quasi intelligence service, unregistered foreign agent and how AIPAC’s overseas activities place America under heightened risk of terrorism is an open offer. We’re standing by if Judge Ellis feels he wishes to call upon us.”
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