Posted on 07/01/2019 9:03:23 AM PDT by kiryandil
He is using the office he holds to advance his extraordinary lifetime project of assigning unchecked power to the president.
Buried behind our president’s endless stream of lies and malicious self-serving remarks are actions that far transcend any reasonable understanding of his legal authority. Donald Trump disdains, more than anything else, the limitations of checks and balances on his power. Witness his assertion of a right to flout all congressional subpoenas; his continuing refusal to disclose his tax returns, notwithstanding Congress’s statutory right to secure them; his specific actions to bar congressional testimony by government officials; and his personal attacks on judges who dare to subject the acts of his administration to judicial review. More blatant yet are his recent assertion of a right to accept dirt on political opponents from foreign governments, and his declaration of a national emergency, when he himself said he “did not need to do this,” he just preferred to “do it much faster.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
After patiently waiting for Barr to start issuing the dozens of indictments against blatantly criminal, high ranking government officials, today, with some fanfare, they announced the first indictment.
Of a no-account, pissant, city councilman in Washington, D.C.
That’s it. While Hillary “John Dillinger” Clinton, Eric “The Gunrunner” Holder, and so many other federal offenders are gallivanting around, scot-free, he prosecutes a city councilman.
NO. NOT ENOUGH. YOU ARE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES. The first major indictments should have begun within two weeks after you got your new job.
Many of these crimes have already been thoroughly investigated. THERE NEEDS TO BE ARRESTS. NOW!
LMAO! The idiots make it so easy to understand their BS.Just read it it opposite and then we get the truth!
DS?
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Deep State
Roger that for sure.
Couldn’t get past the oft-repeated MSM whining points in the first paragraph.
Thanks.
There IS that...
To be precise he was saying things like "Comey *would* be in need of a good lawyer if we had a real Attorney General".But since Barr's confirmation he's been saying things like "Comey *will* be in need of a good lawyer once Barr gets up to speed".
Yep, "small-ball".
I hope that the timing has something to do with maneuvering the torpedo platform into position for optimum effect before the election.
I would love to get the skinny straight from Kellyanne.
:-)
That was one of the most asinine articles that I have ever read.....PATHETIC!!!!
Seriously, any Republican suggesting that criminal prosecution be used for elective purposes needs to be fired.
It has been decades since the promises of prosecuting criminal Democrats began. But they never do prosecute them. Either it is just after an election, where they want to ignore their crimes “to focus on the new agenda”, or they are in the we are investigating and collecting evidence mode like now, where nothing comes of it; or finally, the “we’re too close to an election, so we don’t want to appear to be doing this for political reasons.”
It’s all b.s. Either you prosecute blatant criminals, or you do not. If you do not, you are failing in your job duties, and you are betraying our nation.
Indict, Arrest, hold Trials. That is the ONLY proper means to do this. If you won’t then you need to be fired.
Dan Ayers certainly is not trained in Constitutional law as it has been applied and accepeted through history.
We've already got the Ted Stevens and Duncan Hunter prosecution for elective purposes examples, along with Iran-Contra [L-larry Walsh] before the 1992 election.
But we're not The Enemy that does that.
Atlantic is complicit in the conspiracy to overthrow the government. As a conspirator, the publisher is subject to hard time.
Yes. Barr advocates United Executive Authority/Power, as I recall. That does not mean the President alone; it means the the Executive Branch, including its unelected bureaucrats.
He advocated Federal agents being categorically protected from the legal redress by the citizenry, again as I recall. He defended pro bono Lon Horiuchi, unrepentant de facto assassin.
Others are free to trust him. I am free not to do so. I consider him an Institutionalist, not a Constitutionalist.
Hey Atlantic: But is Bill Barr Trump’s “Wingman”?
As a student of both history and strategic thinking, I too always remain skeptical and aware that all individuals on both political sides may have long term individual motives that differ from their current observable actions.
This applies to Trump as well.
In the interim I observe the “fruits” of their actions and support those who most closely align with my own motives, including sanctity of life at both ends of the spectrum, equal opportunity and level playing field, and a decrease in programs that take away freedoms and the related individual responsibilities that accompanyies those liberties.
In many ways, I am a pacifist independent Libertarian, but also a common sense realist.
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