The Middle District of Tennessee, which includes Nashville, will likely be receiving a new U.S. attorney after the Biden administration tapped a new lawyer for the job.
“These individuals were chosen for their devotion to enforcing the law, their professionalism, their experience and credentials, their dedication to pursuing equal justice for all, and their commitment to the independence of the Department of Justice,” the White House said in naming Henry Leventis and two other U.S. attorney nominees last week.
All are subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
But Leventis, who is a partner at the law firm Spencer Fane LLP and who served as assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee from 2015 to 2020, spends his spare time working with a far-left group known for labeling and listing conservatives as racists and bigots.
According to his Spencer Fane LLP biography, Leventis sits on the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Southeast Regional Board.
The ADL says it fights hatred, but pushes a far-left agenda.
“ADL fights all forms of antisemitism and bias, using innovation and partnerships to drive impact,” according to that organization’s website. “A global leader in combating antisemitism, countering extremism and battling bigotry wherever and whenever it happens, ADL works to protect democracy and ensure a just and inclusive society for all.”
The group has become particularly notable for its pro-transgender agenda.
It often claims, without evidence, that those who do not support transgenderism are guilty of inciting violence.
“This administration is choosing bigotry and exclusion over protecting students’ rights and safety,” it said in 2018, during former President Donald J. Trump’s presidential term. “At a time when violence against trans people is drastically increasing, dismissing assaults on trans rights is unconscionable.”
This administration is choosing bigotry and exclusion over protecting students’ rights and safety. At a time when violence against trans people is drastically increasing, dismissing assaults on trans rights is unconscionable. https://t.co/jUUu2mSCMF
— ADL (@ADL) February 12, 2018
Notably, the ADL has also pushed anti-police rhetoric.
On its website, it has a sample lesson plan for teachers called “The Future of Policing in the U.S.: Reform, Transform or Abolish?”
According to the lesson plan:
- Students will explore the purpose and role of policing in the U.S.
- Students will identify different categories for their visions of changes in policing (reform, transform or abolish) and evaluate specific suggestions according to those categories.
- Students will reflect on their own views of policing in the U.S. and write an essay or speech that reflects their vision.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Joe Biden” by The White House. Background Photo “Tennessee State Capitol” by Andre Porter. CC BY-SA 3.0.
I’m surprised that ADL would be mentioned here. Contrary to popular belief in conservative circles, the ADL is definitely not a “socialist” organization. It’s specific to a group, but not socialists.
Don’t need any more politically successful ADL henchmen, helping the bigoted Joe Biden and the Democrats redefine bigotry as all opposition to systemically legalized racial discrimination, providing the targets for politically enforced racial suppression and its loss of opportunities and benefits of taxation is applied only to whites, with political favoritism funding the undeserved educational and economic advancement of blacks and Hispanics.
Not to mention their support for progressive criminal pandering that has inhumanely increased criminal victimization percentages.
Mr. Henry Leventis does NOT sound like the type of man we need as U.S. Attorney in ANY district of Tennessee! Everything the Biden Administration has a hand in is intended to bring our nation to ruin and the socialist state. This lawyer appears to fit Biden’s evil intentions to a tee. God help us all.