Calls For Removal Of Bill Barr Hit Fever Pitch After Insane Federalist Society Speech
Bill Barr has made a habit of delivering unnerving speeches since becoming attorney general, and on Friday, during remarks at an annual meeting of the Federalist Society, he took things up another notch still.
"Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they call 'The Resistance' and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the functioning of the executive branch", he declared.
Then, he accused "the left" of "undermin
There is much to learn from cheney and nixon actions, as they relate to trump abuses. Apologies in advance for a wall of text, but just trying to open a few doors:
EXECUTIVE SESSION
(Senate – November 08, 2007)
” … But, President Bush said he
had authority to disregard the statute because he had constitutional
authority.
As a matter of constitutional doctrine, you can’t amend the
Constitution with a statute. To amend the Constitution, you have to
have a constitutional amendment. An amendment must pass the Congress by
a two-thirds vote and be ratified by three-fourths of the States.
So the President took the position that his constitutional power
superseded the statute, and he rejected it and ignored it. I have grave
doubts about the propriety of what the President did. We didn’t find
out about it until it was disclosed in the newspapers in mid-December
of 2005 when we were in the midst in this Chamber of debating the
PATRIOT Act.”
That is why I was so disappointed by Judge Mukasey’s answers
suggesting that he sees little occasion to check the President’s power.
I was disturbed by his insistence that, with regard to warrantless
wiretapping and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the
President has inherent authority outside of the statute and could
authorize and immunize conduct contrary to the law. I fail to see a
valid distinction justifying his assertion that the President could
have the power of an executive override in the surveillance context,
but not in the torture context, and I worry about where his reasoning
could lead us.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2007/11/08/senate-section/article/S14147-1
Also see: “Unilateralism in secret is sometimes necessary at the height of a crisis, and Cheneyism was effective in the short run. But it is disastrous over the medium and long term. The president cannot accomplish much over time without the assistance of his bureaucracy and the other institutions of government. And he cannot garner that assistance through mere commands. He must instead convince these institutions that his policies are good and lawful ones that they should support”
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/how-dick-cheney-reined-in-presidential-power.html
Irrespective of President Trump’s ego trips and wild behavioral swings, You cannot point fingers at “Conservatives”, some of which are “Republicans” and at the same time support the behaviors being exhibited,by the so-called “Democratic” Party. Exhibit A is the dismal failure of the State of California, a wildly degenerate political sweatshop that became divorced from reality several decades ago. The voters need to get better informed before voting any more clowns into high office.
This comment has no basis whatsoever in reality, and as such, the person who left it has been banned permanently from commenting.
yeah, right. Failed state, LOL.
gross state product of Cali is the largest in the US, by a wide margin.
If California were a country of it’s own, it would sport the 5th-largest GDP in the world.
It is home to some of the most valuable companies in the world.
Plus, the Cailfornia goverment, unlike the federal one under president stable genius, has been running a balanced budget for the last couple of years.
But I guess facts fall on deaf ears in this case.
incidentally, my banning that person isn’t arbitrary. as far as i can tell, that person is the same person who has made inflammatory comments of other sorts previously.
As a nation we can only hope that barr follows in the footsteps of Nixon’s AG — and removed from office ASAP.
After his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, he served as chairman of Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign. Due to multiple crimes he committed in the Watergate affair, Mitchell was sentenced to prison in 1977 and served 19 months.
On February 21, 1975, Mitchell, who was represented by the criminal defense attorney William G. Hundley, was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and sentenced to two and a half to eight years in prison for his role in the Watergate break-in and cover-up, which he dubbed the “White House horrors.” As a result of the conviction, Mitchell was disbarred from the practice of law in New York.[55] The sentence was later reduced to one to four years by United States district court Judge John J. Sirica. Mitchell served only 19 months of his sentence at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery (in Maxwell Air Force Base) in Montgomery, Alabama, a minimum-security prison, before being released on parole for medical reasons.[56]
From a distance – a different country but only a couple of hundred miles from where I’m writing this to our border – Barr’s words seem to reflect the single most consistently perverse (and phsycologically telling) form of response – “projecting”. That is, accusing the “others” of exactly what you have done / not done , said / not said. This is not new to this president. Remember “no, you’re the puppet, you’re the puppet” in one of the debates with Ms. Clinton?
It is as if the paucity of facts and imagination with which to attack your opponents is so limited, and therefore their positions and arguements are so weak, as to leave no alternative but to twist and otherwise bastardize what they do and say and then accuse those “others” of exactly what you and your cronies do and say. Sad, pathetic and unacceptable. Hopefully, this charade will become as glaringly obvious and persistent enough that a sufficient number of Trump “supporters” eventually change their views and vote accordingly.
As one of your othe readers notes, this is not the first time the Dept. of Justice / A.G. has been co-opted to defend a guilty president. Maybe it is time to take the DOJ and its leaders away from the Executive” (sic) branch of government and put them into “The Judiciciary” along with the Supreme Court….
As it is, this is a sad and sick circus…