William Barr Is Orchestrating a Slow-Rolling Coup Against the Constitutional Order

[ProudLib72]

So, the Attorney General of the United States, having presumably reassembled his gizzard after Senator Kamala Harris took it apart for him on live television, spit in the eye of the constitutional order by refusing to honor a pair of subpoenas from the House Judiciary Committee—one for an unredacted copy of Robert Mueller's report on the Russian ratfcking of the 2016 election, and one for his own sorry ass to sit in another chair in another committee room. This was a remarkable moment, and one that none of us ever should forget. This is a tiny, slow-rolling coup against the constitutional design.

Let us assume, for the moment, that one of the Democrats wins the presidency in 2020, but that the Republicans retain their hold on the Senate and, somehow, regain their majority in the House. You just watch how fast that Congress recaptures its ability to "stand up" to President Biden, or President Warren. You just watch those subpoenas fly. There will be leaks and hearings and grand juries until hell won't have them. No precedent based on their absurd truckling to a criminal president will be deemed valid. In fact, they will turn it back on the Democrats. Look, they will say. Look at how y'all tormented poor El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago. All of this will have the full weight of the wingnut media apparatus behind it, and there will be more than a few respectable journalists and onetime Never Trumpers who will chime in to blame the Democrats for "overreaching."

More: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27344686/william-barr-subpoena-congress-jerry-nadler/

[Iliyah]

1. Even hard core Republicans love the Constitution.

T-rump always blame the Democrats. So do Republicans. Same song over and over again and it's tired.

Republicans are frighten in losing power and their wealth. This will be their downfall.

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2. they love pretending they love the constitution.

but then they also love reading stuff about no cruel and unusual punishment and then saying, hey, water torture is fine.

or claiming the constitution prevents a president from being indicted when it says no such thing at all.

or reinterpreting it to say that the presidency is a 4-year dictatorship when a republican is in office, but a virtually powerless office when a democrat is in it.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. The elected reps on our side need to shout this to the rooftops

and not just in the emails where they ask us for money