WASHINGTON, July 27, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has refused to investigate COVID-19 nursing home mandates issued in four Democrat-led states which likely facilitated the premature deaths of thousands of elderly and frail residents last year.
In March, U.S. Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA), a ranking member of the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, joined five Senators in addressing a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting the DOJ continue its investigation into whether or not state officials from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, violated federal guidelines in pressuring long-term care facilities to admit COVID-19 positive patients, endangering the health and lives of this most vulnerable part of the population.
This preliminary investigation began in August of last year under the Trump administration when the DOJ made an initial request for the governors of these states to submit COVID-19 data to help the department determine whether or not to “initiate [formal] investigations under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)” against officials of these states.
Four months after the March request, Scalise received a response late last week from Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joe Gaeta informing him that each state did provide
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