Chairman. under the pretense of providing the impoverished with access to the legal system. the Legal Services Corporation has cost American taxpayers untold billions of dollars in politically motivated litigation costssome say nearly $2 trilliont Many of these lawsuits are legal sleights of hand designed to undermine existing laws that limit welfare and other entitlements as well as prevent restrictions on LSC activities. I will not go into the long list of cases that demonstrate the flagrant abuses of this agency. But I will tell you that in way too many cases. the LSC has an appalling and inexcusable record of all too often taking money from lawabiding. hardworking taxpayers and then giving it to the likes of convicted felons. delinquent fathers. illegal aliens. and even to drug dealers. And they do this without any accountability to the taxpayers who subsidize their outrageous behavior. Here are just a few examples: First. the LSC engages in litigation that actually harms the poorsuch as preventing the eviction of drug dealers from public housingl Second. the LSC promotes illegal Immigration by suing for public benefits to illegal aliens and litigating on behalf of criminal aliens the Federal Government wants to deport. Third. the LSC Is too often antifamily. The programs hostility toward even the most basic family values is most evident in grantees aggressive advocacy of abortion. support for homosexual rights. opposition to parental authority and a general disdain for the traditional family unit.
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