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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 08:00 AM Feb 2020

A Unique Awfulness...



Bill Barr Must Resign
The attorney general is working to destroy the integrity and independence of the Justice Department, in order to make Donald Trump a president who can operate above the law.


The fundamental problem is that he does not believe in the central tenet of our system of government—that no person is above the law. In chilling terms, Barr’s own words make clear his long-held belief in the need for a virtually autocratic executive who is not constrained by countervailing powers within our government under the constitutional system of checks and balances.

Indeed, given our national faith and trust in a rule of law no one can subvert, it is not too strong to say that Bill Barr is un-American. And now, from his perch as attorney general, he is in the midst of a root-and-branch attack on the core principles that have guided our justice system, and especially our Department of Justice, since the 1970s.

[link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/donald-ayer-bill-barr-must-resign/606670/|
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Without just justice - it is literally in the word - democracy cannot exist, it is impossible.
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A Unique Awfulness... (Original Post) Soph0571 Feb 2020 OP
I never voted for Amash when I lived in his district but at least he's read the Constitution and catbyte Feb 2020 #1

catbyte

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1. I never voted for Amash when I lived in his district but at least he's read the Constitution and
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 09:01 AM
Feb 2020

and puts it over party/power. I disagree with him on 99.999% of his policy stances but I admire him as a man of principle. That's why he's now an Independent and no longer a member of the cowardly, complicit and corrupt gop.

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