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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Feb 17, 2020, 09:51 PM Feb 2020

Democrats fear rule of law crumbling under Trump

Democrats are issuing dire warnings that the rule of law is under attack by President Trump after the Department of Justice (DOJ) overruled career prosecutors to seek a lighter sentence for longtime Trump aide Roger Stone.

The move incensed Democratic lawmakers and raised new questions about potential White House interference at the agency.

“Left to his own devices, President Trump would turn America into a banana republic, where the dictator can do whatever he wants and the Justice Department is the president’s law firm — not a defender of the rule of law,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday on the Senate floor in response.

Many lawmakers called the shocking development just the latest in a series of assaults on the rule of law during Trump’s presidency. For many, the Stone controversy appeared to be a tipping point for the politicization of the top federal law enforcement agency under Trump and what they fear is an unprecedented expansion of presidential powers.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/483206-democrats-fear-rule-of-law-crumbling-under-trump

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Democrats fear rule of law crumbling under Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 OP
If they're issuing dire warnings that IT IS HAPPENING ... that's not just 'fearing' it ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #1
what the F*$K have we been seeing for three years? A little late for fear...how about waking up and NRaleighLiberal Feb 2020 #2
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. If they're issuing dire warnings that IT IS HAPPENING ... that's not just 'fearing' it ...
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 09:55 PM
Feb 2020

It's saying IT IS HAPPENING.

But, it's The Hill, so ... Dems are just a'skeert, like little kids.

NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
2. what the F*$K have we been seeing for three years? A little late for fear...how about waking up and
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 09:59 PM
Feb 2020

actually doing something?

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