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Posted on 12/07/2018 11:06:54 AM PST by conservative98
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who will likely become the next Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, praised President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, William Barr, on Friday, saying he is “highly capable, highly respected and will provide new and much-needed leadership for the Department of Justice.”
President Trump confirmed that on Friday, he will nominate as his next attorney general the man who served as attorney general from 1991-1993 during the George H.W. Bush administration.
“He was my first choice since day one,” Trump said on Friday morning.
Sen. Graham, who will likely replace the outgoing Judiciary chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), praised Trump’s nominee.
“President Trump made an outstanding decision in nominating William Barr to serve as the next Attorney General,” Graham said.“Mr. Barr is highly capable, highly respected and will provide new and much-needed leadership for the Department of Justice.”
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Yes, we’ve already been over this. The whole of our corrupt stasi state is in open rebellion to Trump. Both parties, corrupt courts, and fakestream media. That makes him President in name only. No one in D.C. even recognizes his legitimacy to be President. Putin put him in office dontcha know.
My guess is they’re refusing to release the fisa docs and they’re also blackmailing him with the mueller coup(not a guess). Then again, he maybe literally under the gun. He or his family.
Use your imagination.
My guess is they’re refusing to release the fisa docs and they’re also blackmailing him with the mueller coup(not a guess). Then again, he maybe literally under the gun. He or his family.
Yep. That’s exactly what page I am on. At this point I am assuming Rotten Rod flipped POTUS the bird and didn’t give up the docs. Dared him to fire him for insubordination and without the support of his own party POTUS could not risk it becaues his entire agenda would grind to a halt in the hysteria.
Bottom Line - 40% of likely voters think Trump should be impeached. The fact that Trump will not release any documents in his own defense often makes me wonder if he, or someone he loves, is guilty of something.
Ridiculous assertion. Trump does not have the support of his own party. His admin is in open rebellion. After Comey’s testimony today it is clear he does not have control of the executive branch and without his party covering his flanks he is powerless to change that.
Re: “Ridiculous assertion.”
I disagree.
Trump can pull up the FISA warrants on his Oval Office computer and post them on the White House web site - any time he wants to.
Almost 50 years ago the Supreme Court decided that publishing the classified “Pentagon Papers” was not a crime because “a compelling public interest” outweighs the government’s right to secrecy.
There would be no legal consequences if Trump - who is the Chief Executive Officer of the DOJ - released the FISA warrants.
The “righting” = *writing* is on the wall.
Wow! Nice.
What do you actually know about Barr? Lindsey says he will fully support trump’s intentions...until he falls back off the ledge, I’ll appreciate him....and I trust Trump to be learning from past mistakes.
As long as Barr follows the laws in the USA I think he’ll do just fine.
Oh how I wish the sages on this site would run for POTUS and show PDJT how it’s done!
If I was Trump, I would go back to private life after this term and tell the nation to F*ck off!
Ugh, not Bondi.
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If Trump goes back to private life after one term, I wouldn’t be surprised nor blame him one bit.
Well what I can’t really understand is how someone who worked 2 years in the Reagan administration can 35 years later be viewed as not being a good choice. Seriously, would Reagan have a hard time winning today’s GOP nomination. He was turned my family into Reagan Democrats, and I made the final move to Reagan Republican (was 14 in 1980 so could not vote the first time he ran vs. Carter)
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Did he used to go by the name Bob Barr? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Bob Barr is a different person.
I don’t know if Bush appointed him because he was black, or not; all I know is that he is one of the best SC justices in recent history. Sadly, as we have all seen, some of the appointments are huge disappointments. We’ve just gotten two great ones. We should get one or two more in the not too distant future. Thank GOD it’s the Senate who confirms, and not the House. (Ryan’s House wouldn’t have been any better than the upcoming one -— he would have seen to that, the snake). If Trump accomplished nothing else, SC appointments would be worth it all.
Think about it, the CIA told him to go Deep State and sent him to GWU night school (the same school that Chuck Todd could not managed to graduate from).
"After cutting short his intelligence career, Barr clerked for a federal judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, worked in private practice, and did a stint as a domestic policy adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He then returned to private practice before joining the Bush campaign in 1988, where he helped select then-Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be the vice president's running mate.""Barr has emerged as a sometimes defender of the president in the press. In 2017, he told The New York Times that the Justice Department may have more cause to look at a controversial uranium deal involving Hillary Clinton than any alleged collusion between Mr. Trump and Russia." [ed.note: Oh, hello tagline]
A 2nd term domestic policy analyst under Reagan? Now we know who prompted discussion of consolidating/eliminating Dept. of Education! And of course, even Reagan fell prey to the argument that eliminating Cabinets eliminates Executive power.
Thanks, I thought his pic looked different. Didn’t like him much.
I think the jury is still out on Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
After Clarence Thomas and Scalia testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, I was absolutely certain they were both rock solid Conservative judges.
After watching John Roberts, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh testify, I felt like all three of them might end up as centrists or even center-left.
The good news?
Trump's judicial appointments are better than Hillary Clinton's appointments would have been - which is why I voted for Trump.
I like your thinking on Barr. And I hope the Senate will scratch his itch quickly so we can see what his various govt and private experiences have made him into today. I don't recall having any serious reservations about him back in the glory days of the Reagan era.
I do, though, think you might be off a few years in your quote above. Dept of Ed Secretary Bell, Reagan 1st term, from the beginning was expected by many to help eliminate his own dept. Nowadays we'd say the swamp got him as he later became a driving force to save the dang dept.
Coincidentally, my father was appointed by Reagan as special asst to Bell for a year or so in the early days. As an outsider, my old man (a professor of education administration, retired but still kicking hard, thank the Lord) was frustrated by the high gravity of power in DC, even for a dept that had only been born one admin prior. Young or old, central power does not devolve easily. Reagan, like Trump made some dept head picks which did not work out as planned. Leading some campaign promises / goals on to failure.
But definitely the idea to eliminate Fed Ed was there from the start of the RR revolution. Not just a second term domestic policy item - Bell's turncoat (IMO) influence had already watered/drown the momentum by then as I recall. To be fair, Bell did advocate a relatively light-handed Fed Ed. But as you know, such a creature exists only in mythology.
Reagan had a much clearer mission than Trump, one in pursuit of making America free again.
Trump has a much fuzzier mission, one in pursuit of some subjective greatness. But he loves America, has big balls and learns quickly. Hopefully, someday Reagan's brighter vision will come out of Trump's bigger mouth.
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