Scalding: Salt Lake Tribune editorial slams Republicans in congress for "surrender[ing] their duty,

[kpete]

Scalding: Salt Lake Tribune editorial slams Republicans in congress for "surrender[ing] their duty, their power and their part in defending American democracy..." and instead choosing obedience to Donald Trump................

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By abandoning the role the Constitution assigns them, to jealously defend the power of their branch of government against encroachments by other branches, Republicans in Congress surrender their duty, their power and their part in defending American democracy.

Ambition no longer counteracts ambition.

And for what?

To get themselves on the good side of a chief executive who is so clearly corrupt, engaging in obstruction, campaign and ethics violations, using the presidency as a cash cow for his personal business interests, who disrespects the separation of powers, freedom of the press, the rights of minorities and immigrants and our long-standing international alliances.

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The report from special counsel Robert Mueller laid out a litany of fishy contacts during the campaign and acts by the new president that would have been obstruction of justice if anyone had carried out the president’s orders. Or if it were considered possible, as Justice Department guidelines faithfully followed by the Mueller team says it is not, to indict a sitting president.

Mueller’s handicap through all of this is that he is an honorable man who stands by the rule of law, operating in a city that is neither. Investigating a president through the federal grand jury system is difficult because prosecutors are used to assembling and presenting their evidence in secret and only making it public if there is an indictment — which triggers a process in which the accused is able to defend himself.

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It may be painful for the special counsel to publicly call out the attorney general for willfully misrepresenting — that is, lying about — the conclusions of his report and the evidence underlying it.

But Mueller can handle it. Even if the Republicans in Congress cannot.



the rest:
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2019/05/04/tribune-editorial/

[panader0]

1. When the R's lose the Salt Lake City Tribune--

there's change in the air....

[corbettkroehler]

4. My Thought Exactly

Change is a-comin'!

[StevieM]

10. The Salt Lake Tribune is not a conservative newspaper.

It endorsed Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in 2012.

[kentuck]

2. I hope Mueller can handle it...

It would do a lot to enlighten America, in my opinion.

[madaboutharry]

3. What we have always known: Washington is a cesspool of corruption.

"Mueller’s handicap through all of this is that he is an honorable man who stands by the rule of law, operating in a city that is neither."

[Honeycombe8]

5. So it joins the chorus of saying that, along with many others for last 2 yrs.

But no one has a solution on how to make the checks and balances system work. So we notice it, and watch our democracy be eroded, unable to do anything.

[chowder66]

8. The only possible solution short of the Republicans in congress waking up is the courts and that's

not even a sure thing.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Yep. nt

[PatrickforO]

6. Wow. Utah.

That's really something.

[Nitram]

7. I hope this a sign that the tide is turning. Maybe we can get our country back.