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Mike 03
(16,616 posts)This is apparently the opening statement of Aaron Zelinsky.
Tomorrow is going to be
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)BOOM, MUTHAFUKKAHS
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)By whom?
Is it recorded?
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Is that inferred in his statement? Sorry, I just glanced at it and immediately started sending it to all my friends and loved ones!!
Nevilledog
(51,093 posts)Don't know if it was text or phone call. For some reason I think text.
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)Nevilledog
(51,093 posts)leftieNanner
(15,084 posts)But only because I said it with my WW of the W voice!
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)I had the House Judiciary Committee on my calender but no other details.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)hearing - whoo hoo, get yourself good nightss rest!!!!
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)By 10 MDT I'll be in the kitchen making doughnits with the laptop charged and running.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)barr is hoping for a nice spot on a big island off the coast of Australia. Lots of wealthy survival types will sequester there for a few centuries until the other land-masses are ripe for re-destruction.
Caliman73
(11,736 posts)Barr has been pedaling the concept of the Unitary Executive since the late 80's. at least. Him, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and a few others were around during Nixon's administration, then hopped around from Ford to Reagan, to Poppy Bush and Jr. pedaling that bullshit. Barr was the focal point (As Attorney General) during Poppy Bush's term and coordinated the last parts of the cover up of Iran-Contra.
He won't back down until we have a king-like executive in this country. He likely sees Trump as his last grasp at the ring, so he will not turn whistleblower.
Barr truly believes that the administration should answer to NO ONE, not the Congress, nor the Courts. It really is a weird and blinkered view of the Constitution.
EleanorR
(2,391 posts)Barr is all in corrupt and acting in the interests of trump.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)"What I saw was the Department of Justice exerting significant pressure on the line prosecutors in the case to obscure the correct sentencing guidelines calculation to which Roger Stone was subject and to water down and in some cases outright distort the events that transpired in his trial and the criminal conduct that gave rise to his conviction."
"What I heard repeatedly was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president. I was told that the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Timothy Shea, was receiving heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Department of Justice to cut Stone a break, and that the U.S. Attorneys sentencing instructions to us were based on political considerations."
"I was explicitly told that the motivation for changing the sentencing memo was political, and because the U.S. Attorney was 'afraid of the President.'"
more...
https://www.axios.com/roger-stone-prosecutor-testimony-doj-intervened-023ae7b0-8283-474d-b0d7-c643d1fd3af6.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics
erronis
(15,241 posts)The most recent:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/06/23/even-the-first-roger-stone-sentencing-memo-was-politicized/
She (and many others) have been analyzing the rat-fucker and his various defenses for at least a couple of years.
Of course, there are many other interesting stories about Barr, Mueller, Rosenstein, Epstein, etc. And the grandest dolt of them all.
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)You might want to change that. You're like me, I get typing so fast my mind can't keep up with my fingers and everyhiknbg gets a;ll messid up.
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)to do about it; nothing.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,243 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)Assistant United States Attorney Aaron S. J. Zelinsky
House Judiciary Committee
June 24, 2020
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/zelinsky_opening_statement_hjc.pdf?utm_campaign=4024-519
sop
(10,167 posts)If, like Trump and Barr, they have absolutely none, lawlessness rules of the day. I guess the drafters of the Constitution should have forseen this.