Democrats Demand Answers About Trump's Federal Show Of Force In Portland

[Nevilledog]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/portland-protests-trump-federal-show-force_n_5f17b32fc5b6128e681e3dee

More than two dozen Senate Democrats sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday demanding answers regarding the controversial deployment of federal law enforcement agents in Portland and possibly other major U.S. cities in the coming days.

The Democrats, led by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urged Attorney General Bill Barr and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to explain the legal rationale behind President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal officers, which he threatened to expand to other cities such as Baltimore and Chicago.

The letter sought to tie the federal incursion in U.S. cities to the forcible clearing of peaceful protesters in front of the White House last month, which Barr is said to have ordered.

“Critically, it remains unclear what legal authorities the federal government has invoked for its militarized interventions in American cities,” the letter read. “All of this is part of an alarming pattern by the Trump Administration in taking an aggressive and excessive response to protests catalyzed by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many others.”

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[Thekaspervote]

1. Gotta keep the pressure on..and HOT

[SWBTATTReg]

2. And they should complain about the clearing of peaceful protesters to make a point w/ the ...

bible ... protesters were exercising their peaceful right in protesting and these thugs unlawfully cleared the area of peaceful protesters in front of the church to make a point (and idiot still held the bible upside down). What a moron...and barr too, since he was involved too.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. May be a hoop they have to jump through, but they are wasting their time.

Hearings will do exactly jack, no one show up to answer questions.

Again you go through the motions.

Time to sue, ask for injunctions, make the Pig defend the move to avoid the injunction.

Shawn

[global1]

4. Democrats Sent Another Letter....

How many letters have the Dems sent to the Trump Administration in the last 3 1/2 years that went unanswered?

Isn't there something else they could do besides - sending a letter?

[Nevilledog]

5. +1000000