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Five Reagan White House lawyers endorse Biden, saying Trump has 'fomented hatred'
Source: Washington Post
While the surge of new coronavirus cases dominates the closing days of the presidential campaign, five lawyers who worked in President Ronald Reagans White House want other Republicans who may be torn about how to vote next week to remember what they believe will be President Trumps enduring legacy.
Mr. Trumps lawless, amoral and dishonorable ethos makes a mockery of the democratic accountability that is fostered through respect for law and our constitutional principles, they write in an open letter today explaining their decision to endorse Joe Biden. He has overtly refused to honor the independence of the judiciary, failed to acknowledge the authority of Congress and the corresponding constraints imposed on a president by the separation of powers, demonized the free press that speaks truth to power, and undermined due process and the fair administration of justice by relentlessly politicizing the investigation and enforcement of the criminal law.
The signatories are Peter Keisler, Robert Kruger, Alan Charles Raul and J. Michael Shepherd, who were all appointed by Reagan to be associate White House counsels, as well as Nicholas Rostow, who was the legal adviser to the National Security Council. Raul and Rostow also served under President George H.W. Bush.
Chanting lock him (or her) up or enemy of the people are statements we could not have imagined Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush or any president before this one uttering about a political opponent or about some of our leading news organizations, they write. Those ugly sentiments are the very antithesis of American ideals and echo the authoritarian tyrants that every previous president would have challenged.
Mr. Trumps lawless, amoral and dishonorable ethos makes a mockery of the democratic accountability that is fostered through respect for law and our constitutional principles, they write in an open letter today explaining their decision to endorse Joe Biden. He has overtly refused to honor the independence of the judiciary, failed to acknowledge the authority of Congress and the corresponding constraints imposed on a president by the separation of powers, demonized the free press that speaks truth to power, and undermined due process and the fair administration of justice by relentlessly politicizing the investigation and enforcement of the criminal law.
The signatories are Peter Keisler, Robert Kruger, Alan Charles Raul and J. Michael Shepherd, who were all appointed by Reagan to be associate White House counsels, as well as Nicholas Rostow, who was the legal adviser to the National Security Council. Raul and Rostow also served under President George H.W. Bush.
Chanting lock him (or her) up or enemy of the people are statements we could not have imagined Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush or any president before this one uttering about a political opponent or about some of our leading news organizations, they write. Those ugly sentiments are the very antithesis of American ideals and echo the authoritarian tyrants that every previous president would have challenged.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/30/daily-202-five-reagan-white-house-lawyers-endorse-biden-saying-trump-has-fomented-hatred/
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Five Reagan White House lawyers endorse Biden, saying Trump has 'fomented hatred' (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2020
OP
K&R. I'm glad of this, I just wonder if any of today's republicans will care.
scarletwoman
Oct 2020
#2
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)1. Somebody is having a good laugh at American democracy
Older, wiser, smart people are all lined up on one side, for the most part. Yet unless we win through elections, no guarantee, we still have to deal with this stooge. America's enemies, those who oppose democracy, our historic enemies, the ones we've defeated, are having a good laugh.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)2. K&R. I'm glad of this, I just wonder if any of today's republicans will care.
The politicians are impervious to shame, and their voters would never read the Washington Post.