Billy Barr Disgraces Justice Every Day
 

11 legal experts agree: There’s no good reason for DOJ to drop the Michael Flynn case
“This is a pardon disguised as a technical legal matter.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...barr-trump-doj

Welcome to Billy Barr's America, where the truth makes way for the president

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...arr-flynn-case

Obama says in private call that 'rule of law is at risk' in Michael Flynn case

https://www.aol.com/article/news/202...case/24244199/

Billy Barr is as corrupt as they come. One day soon, he'll be behind bars, if there is any justice.

Silly those of the USA in thinking the rule of law still applies to Trump and his cult.

I'm afraid it not looking good for the long term with all the judges being seated by mich.

2,000 former DOJ, FBI officials call on Billy Barr to resign over Michael Flynn case
Billy is using the Justice Department to further Donny's personal and political interests, the letter said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...-over-n1204601

Billy’s Corrupt Scheme to Exonerate Michael Flynn Just Hit a Brick Wall

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020...-sullivan.html

House Judiciary chairman demands Billy testify by June, warns of potential subpoena
Rep. Jerry Nadler's comments come amid the Justice Department's handling of several criminal cases involving former advisers to President Donald Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...poena-n1206646

Billy's disgraceful abuses of power require that he resign and be imprisoned.

Sen. Richard Burr steps down as Senate intel chair during coronavirus stock sale probe

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/sen-...ale-probe.html

Much more to this than meets the eye, folks. Billy Barr has now effectively shut down the probe into Russian interference of the 2016 election, and is making sure the Russians will have the full ability to help Donny again in 2020, unencumbered by spy agencies and Senate oversight.

The most critical sentence in this piece:

After years of work, Burr was still finalizing his committee’s bipartisan report on the investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election when he stepped down.

Billy, Donny and Moscow Mitch aren't about to let that bipartisan report be finalized.

Raise your hand if you still think as long as the Republicans control a branch of government rule of law will matter?
With them controlling the courts I see little change ahead.


May also add, they have no shame so little other then removal from office will work.

Former federal judge who brought down the 'Teflon Don' steps into Flynn case

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/polit...ile/index.html

Hey, Billy, real judges are disgusted with your many miscarriages of justice. You're the AG for the American people, not Donny's personal lawyer! This is a no nonsense judge, you're not going to pull the wool over his eyes.

That's some good news.

Welcome to the republic of tRumpanistan.
 

[QUOTE=Chicks;383003]Billy’s Corrupt Scheme to Exonerate Michael Flynn Just Hit a Brick Wall
Once Flynn is exonerated then the whole Mueller investigation can be discredited Then Tweety calls the whole thing a deep state effort to thwart the will of the American people and throw that on Biden to see if it sticks. Well before that was set in motion mitch's refusal to allow any bills aimed at strengthening the elections against foreign interference signaled the Repukes intentions of cheating to win in 2020. if you think they gave up attempting to cheat after being exposed in the Ukraine affair you haven't been paying attention.[/B]

This is why I vote Democrat party line. There is no such thing as a good Republican when it comes to supporting or opposing legislation and nominations to the courts.

The Justice Department Has Had to Twist Itself in Knots to Defend Donny on Emoluments
For decades, the department has interpreted the Constitution to err on the side of country first. Now all that has changed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...uments/612004/

Police targeted journalists covering the George Floyd protests

https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/...floyd-protests

Billy Barr's wet dream.

Donny and Billy will designate antifa a terrorist organization as GOP points fingers at extremists

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...oints-n1220321

Complete and utter silence about the armed neo-nazis also protesting, breaking windows, starting fires, intimidating voters and invading statehouses. This is the authoritarian takeover of our democracy.

It certainly is trying to be. Authorities in Minneapolis are pleading with 'legitimate protestors' to stay home at night, so the provocateurs can be perused without confusion. In a first approximation, it's all going to depend on how bad the police are now. Too many are deep in reaction, too sympathetic to the right wing agents. The targeting of media is a bright red warning sign.

Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US
America’s occupation by militarized police is in full view

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/31/2...t-george-floyd

Cops aren't even trying to hide their violence against those they're sworn to protect. They know full well that Donny, Billy and Brett have their backs.

Billy Barr personally ordered removal of protesters near White House, leading to use of force against largely peaceful crowd

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...82b_story.html

Disgraceful.

That drunken buffoon, Dick Nixon at his worst never shut down the People's Park at Lafayette Square.
Interesting times we live in.

Billy Barr Takes Charge of Trump’s Crackdown as the Military Tries to Back Away
It’s a controversial move, even within Barr’s own department. A senior law enforcement official called it “a political ploy to make being anti-Trump look like terrorism.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-b...s-to-back-away

All this happening while the Senate races at light speed appointing Judges. There for all to see with zero shame.
What for?

Get it done before November!

Trump's election was about spite and judges, plain and simple.

Heather Cox Richardson

June 3, 2020 (Wednesday)

Social media roiled all day as users tried to figure out who were the soldiers in Washington, D.C. wearing no identification and saying they reported to the Department of Justice. Tonight the answer came: they were riot teams from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a law enforcement agency under the Department of Justice that oversees incarcerated people.

This is problematic for a number of reasons. First, according to Holocaust scholar Waitman Wade Beorn, who studies ethical decision making in the military, it’s a problem because soldiers are trained to defend civilians while prison guards are used to seeing civilians as their enemies, and are accustomed to using force, rather than de-escalation, to subdue them. The U.S. military, Beorn points out, does not like to be employed against Americans, and has a long tradition of that reluctance.

Their lack of name tags and insignia was also problematic. It hampers accountability-- how can you complain about the actions of an officer if you cannot identify him?-- and it blurs the lines between actual officers of the law and the men on the streets toting guns and demanding protesters answer to them. The use of unidentifiable police is common among authoritarian leaders.

And indeed, backed by Attorney General William Barr, Trump appears to be launching a bid to become an authoritarian leader himself. Law enforcement officers operating under his orders are attacking peaceful protesters and journalists, while the president is framing himself as a powerful leader in front of important Christian symbols: on Monday St. John’s Episcopal Church, the famous “Church of Presidents” where his predecessors back to Madison worshipped, Tuesday at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C.

He has supporters in his quest. Today, the New York Times published an op-ed by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican, calling for “an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers.” With no evidence, he claimed that “cadres of left-wing radicals like Antifa” are “infiltrating protest marches… for their own anarchic purposes.”

On Monday, Trump announced he would call in active-duty troops to “dominate” the streets, and about 1,300 troops were brought to Washington, D.C. early this week.
But his announcement sparked a widespread and concerted push back by American military leaders today, with the Pentagon saying it has no intent to use active-duty troops in any law enforcement roles.

General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense, were both caught in Trump’s photo-op walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church Monday after National Guard officers had cleared peaceful protesters from the square in front of it with tear gas and rubber bullets. Today, they distanced themselves from the president.

Milley issued a memo to all branches of the U.S. military reminding them to honor their oaths to the Constitution, a document “founded on the essential principle that all men and women are born free and equal, and should be treated with respect and dignity. It also gives Americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.” Milley’s wording reflects that forty percent of the nation’s active-duty and reserve troops are people of color who aren’t keen on seeing the president empowering white supremacists.

For his part, Esper told reporters that he did not believe active-duty military should be sent to American cities, contradicting the president, who later chewed him out for it.
But Milley and Esper were not alone. Eager to distance themselves from Trump and the imposition of martial law, a wave of military leaders from the Air Force, Army, Navy spoke up today to call for justice for Black Americans and to reiterate their loyalty to the Constitution.

John Allen, a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, called out June 1, 2020 as the day that might well “signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment.”

“There is no precedent in modern U.S. history for a president to wield federal troops in a state or municipality over the objections of the respective governor. Right now, the last thing the country needs—and, frankly, the U.S. military needs—is the appearance of U.S. soldiers carrying out the president’s intent by descending on American citizens,” he wrote.
Allen pointed out that the dangers of “Antifa,” a loose designation for those opposing fascism, pale in comparison to “violent white supremacist groups,” who have “murdered, lynched, tortured, terrorized, oppressed, and discriminated against black Americans from the beginning of the idea of America.”

James Stavridis, the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, expressed dismay at the use of the military against peaceful protesters. Soldiers ”are not meant to be turned against their fellow citizens,” he wrote. “Our founding fathers feared the use of a standing army that could be used to further the aims of a dictator…. The idea of “boots on the ground” and “dominating the battlespace” in our American cities is anathema to America.” He invoked Tiananmen Square, where the Chinese government brutally suppressed protesters exactly 31 years ago, killing and wounding thousands, as a warning for what could happen if the military gets dragged into domestic politics.

General James Mattis, Trump’s former Secretary of Defense, wrote a scathing public condemnation of Donald Trump himself. “Angry and appalled,” by this week’s events, Mattis said Trump had ordered troops “to violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens,” and warned that we should use uniformed military “only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors.” “We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.”

Remembering that in World War Two the Nazi slogan was “Divide and Conquer,” Mattis noted that Trump “tries to divide us.” “We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must,” he wrote, “reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.” He concluded: “Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.”

It is not just military leaders who have spoken out against Trump. As of today, all four living presidents-- Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama-- have all called for racial justice and a better government.

Today, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison charged all four of the Minneapolis police officers at the scene of George Floyd’s murder. Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on Floyd’s neck, has been charged with second-degree murder. The other three officers, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and J. Alexander Kueng, are charged with felony aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. They face maximum sentences of forty years in prison.

Trump’s reelection campaign is faltering as his poll numbers drop, and his supporters are trying desperately to turn the nation’s focus back to the idea of “Obamagate.” Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the origins of the Russia investigation, interviewing Rod Rosenstein, the former Deputy Attorney General who oversaw the investigation after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself. The committee focused on the applications to the court to allow wiretapping on former Trump aide Carter Page, and while Rosenstein defended those applications, Republicans pounced on his admission that they were poorly prepared. They also attacked presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Obama for what they said were abuses of power that rivaled those of Richard Nixon.

Trump supporters on Fox News media expressed frustration that no one seemed to be paying attention to the hearings.

Meanwhile, across the nation, protesters and city mayors are pulling down Confederate statues, a physical political ritual that is a universal herald for regime change.

Call to honor their oaths to the Constitution.
Reiterating their loyalty to the Constitution.
Sounds like some in charge of the military have no blind allegiance to tRump. As protests seem to be more and more not being agitated into violence it becomes less likely tRump will succeed in turning the military loose on American citizens.

Like the Republican effort to doom the Obama presidency, should Donnie not be able to cheat his way to a win in Nov., the GOP will in spite of the will of the people do everything they can to disrupt efforts to repair Donnie's damage. Control of the courts is one of the ways they plan to do it. Like a cancer that will if left in place destroy it's host. The Current Republican party must be abolished or the republic as it stands will die. A new conservative party responsive to the American people must take it's place.

Like the Republican effort to doom the Obama presidency, should Donnie not be able to cheat his way to a win in Nov., the GOP will in spite of the will of the people do everything they can to disrupt efforts to repair Donnie's damage. Control of the courts is one of the ways they plan to do it. Like a cancer that will if left in place destroy it's host. The Current Republican party must be abolished or the republic as it stands will perish. A new conservative party responsive to the American people must take it's place.

George Will said exactly that.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/george...trump-takedown

White Supremacist Infiltration of US Police Forces: Fact-Checking National Security Advisor O’Brien
It’s more than “a few bad apples”

https://www.justsecurity.org/70507/w...dvisor-obrien/

Numerous studies show that White Supremacist organizations are a FAR greater danger to our democracy, including in police forces across the country, than any of the "leftist" groups being targeted by Billy Barr. Billy is Donny's racist henchman.

The Story Behind Billy’s Unmarked Federal Agents
The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...rcement-302551

America's top cop is a rightwing culture warrior who hates disorder. What could go wrong?
Billy Barr forged his worldview fighting protesters in the 1960s. Now he’s masterminding the US government’s crackdown on unrest

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...floyd-protests

Law and order. How refreshing. BTW, you may enjoy the transcript of his interview on Sunday. It was like watching the intervew between Cathy Newman and Jordan Peterson that propelled him to fame and fortune.

The transcript from Face the Nation

And a fun follow up on how CBS edited out key components of Barr's words: CBS Deceptively Edits Barr

Interview, Leaving Out Key Details On Violent Riots, Police Oversight

And those that only saw the edited version see a completely different picture. No wonder they are confused.

Billy Contradicts Donny's Claim About ‘Inspecting’ White House Bunker

https://www.thedailybeast.com/attorn...e-house-bunker

You can't believe a word from either of these assholes.

When the Trump White House’s false narratives collide

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...tives-collide/

Well-documented WaPo video proves that Billy is lying about the absurd photo-op:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video...146_video.html

Bluster and bullshit:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/its...you-in-bs/amp/

That shows that tRump is not acting alone in the dismantling of our democracy

THE EDUCATION OF BILLY BARR
Many in Washington wonder why the stiff-spined, fastidious attorney general is carrying the water for someone as impetuous and morally untethered as Donald Trump. The answer may lie in the lessons William Barr learned from his father, a combative and deliberately provocative New Yorker—not unlike the president himself

https://archive.vanityfair.com/artic...-of-billy-barr

Billy the Bully. More Daddy issues.

https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/s...22393425616896

Judge who accused Barr of "distorting" Mueller report demands answers after reading unredacted copy
The department must appear in court to “address the court’s questions regarding certain redactions" from the report

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/09/jud...-copy_partner/

Billy lied about Mueller's report. Time for the full truth to come out.

Trump's a pussy. :cool: