Posted on 03/10/2020 1:30:17 PM PDT by ransomnote
In 2017, as President Trump took office, anti-Trump activists vented rage with pussy hats and other leftist agitprop. But the real work of the #Resistance has been carried out by holdover bureaucrats in the executive branch — and activist judges roaming far beyond their constitutional remit.
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Judge Reggie Walton was confronted with a straightforward Freedom of Information Act complaint, a relatively common type of litigation. In this case, the plaintiffs sought an unredacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian “collusion” released last spring.
Walton seized the opportunity to excoriate the attorney general, painting a tendentious narrative that set Barr at loggerheads with his underling Mueller. He also openly questioned whether Barr’s politicized “intent was to create a one-sided narrative” about the report.
The judge, who missed his true calling as an MSNBC talking head, wondered aloud whether Barr “made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse” about the report “in favor of President Trump” and blasted a “lack of candor,” which he said calls “into question” the attorney general’s “credibility.”
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Walton’s impudent gripe may earn him media plaudits, but the stubborn facts belie its content.
First, it was line prosecutors who redacted the Mueller report, not Barr himself. Second, the redactions were made in consultation with lawyers on Mueller’s special counsel team — which disproves any alleged legerdemain or political intent on Barr’s part.
Most important, a joint statement last May by DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec and special counsel spokesman Peter Carr made clear that there was “no conflict” between the statements made by Barr and Mueller with respect to the underlying legal question at the time: Both publicly stated that Mueller never concluded that he would have found Trump had obstructed justice but for a DOJ guideline against indicting a sitting president.
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Yeah, and Eric Holder didn’t set the precedent?
The judge, unlike anyone else, will suffer no consequences from his actions. They are America’s ruling oligarchy...
This judge should be removed for this.
They are being replaced in a swift process by our Senate majority leader. This process will insure future courts and court rulings adhere to basic constitutional principals.
This is the Obama Deep State Resistance...
But how can abusive ones like this- who clearly do NOT know the facts- be removed?
Impeachment, which ain’t gonna happen.
just another affirmative action judge, why am I not surprised?
Yet today the DC Circuit riled the law isn’t the law. It ruled that all the redacted pieces of the Mueller Report must be provided to Congress. The law is clear that this is not the case. The report must redact a grand Jury Testimony, etc.
Coronavirus is going bye bye folks. The Dems will get this stuff and pivot back to Russia Russia Russia and you won’t hear squat about the Coronavirus again.
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