[GOP_Party_Animal]

Regarding the author, someone had written that more defense attorneys should be elected officials rather than prosecutors. Although I would prefer attorneys not be involved in making law, I can now see the point. Where defense attorneys are associated with the guilty getting free on technicalities, the government should have a better mindset regarding civil liberties. Prosecutors represent the government against the citizen, and we’ve seen how that’s worked out lately.

[Political Junkie Too]

San Francisco was the first city to elect a defense attorney as the District Attorney when they voted for Terrance Hallinan in 1996. Since then, Hallinan was replaced by Kamala Harris, and Harris was replaced by George Gascón.

How did electing a defense attorney work out for San Francisco?

-PJ

[KeyLargo]

Midterms 2022
Louie Gohmert claims Justice Department and FBI using ‘Gestapo tactics’
by Naomi Lim, White House Reporter |
| June 16, 2022 03:10 PM

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) ripped the Department of Justice and the FBI for lacking moral clarity, likening some law enforcement actions to “Gestapo tactics.”

“They think it’s OK to lie, especially if you’re going after Republicans,” he said Thursday at a conservative conference. “Is it reasonable or even moral for the FBI to bust down doors in the middle of the night of people that have never done anything violent, never done anything threatening?”

He added, “These are Gestapo tactics that have been incorporated in our own country, and it’s got to stop.”

For Gohmert, the country “dodged a bullet” when then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked Attorney General Merrick Garland from being confirmed to the Supreme Court.

“The DOJ has got to admit they’re out of control, and they’ve got to get back to following the Constitution,” he said.

Gohmert also urged schools to return to teaching morality and discussing God in classrooms, asserting that “there’s only one true source of morality.”

“We’ve got to ensure that students learn America is the last home for freedom in the world,” he said. “And the only reason we have freedom in America is because of the grace of almighty God.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/louie-gohmert-justice-department-fbi-gestapo-tactics

Gohmert made the comments during the opening day of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference. The annual gathering is held to help conservative groups drive voter engagement and turnout in elections.