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Nevilledog

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Tue Nov 10, 2020, 01:33 PM Nov 2020

"We've now seen 7 veteran career prosecutors resign from 4 different high-profile cases..."



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Elie Honig
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For those keeping score, we’ve now seen 7 veteran career prosecutors resign from 4 different high-profile cases (Stone, Flynn, Durham, now this) to protest Barr’s political weaponization of DOJ.
Attorney General William P. Barr met with Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, at the Capitol on Monday.
Barr Hands Prosecutors the Authority to Investigate Voter Fraud Claims
The attorney general said that he had authorized “instances” of investigative steps but that inquiries should not be based on specious claims.
nytimes.com
8:01 PM · Nov 9, 2020
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"We've now seen 7 veteran career prosecutors resign from 4 different high-profile cases..." (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 2020 OP
Unfortunately, their resignation means the DoJ might be left with shameless GOP hacks and Quislings. haele Nov 2020 #1
I just have one question about Barr. hedda_foil Nov 2020 #2

haele

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1. Unfortunately, their resignation means the DoJ might be left with shameless GOP hacks and Quislings.
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 02:24 PM
Nov 2020

We're running out the clock here. True, it will now take more time for the criminals to actually make up the evidence and build their "cases" to go before a judge, but it also means that if the hacks are lucky with their judge-shopping, they may actually be able to do some serious damage instead of the what would normally be a tacit slow-walking that actual, experienced prosecutors with some modicum of honor and/or shame might do to to run out the clock before the electoral college meets.

There's a bit of cowardice at this point with just quitting. I'm a Vet - most military people understand that defense is as critical as offence, and if you truly believe in the Constitution and Rule of Law, quitting is not an option. Make the fucking criminal fire you.

Unless they know for sure that they won't just be replaced by a souless zombie, they will be complicit to the ruination of the rule of law in this country by omission.

Haele

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