Barr on Trump: “I felt the rules were being changed to hurt Trump, & I thought it was damaging for the presidency over the long haul.” Longtime champion of unitary executive theory, Barr bristles at charge he’s a Trump loyalist via @WSJ https://t.co/WQki7PyFwX— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) May 20, 2019
These are probably not some of the "rules" AG Barr is worried about:
Trump accuses the FBI and Democrats of treason. He then has to pause as his fans chant, "lock them up!"— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 21, 2019
"We have a great new attorney general who will give it a very fair look," Trump says. 👀 pic.twitter.com/TNEoVny7pJ
But they should be:
This is despicable, frightening & yet another attack on the rule of law. We can’t laugh this off anymore @HouseDemocrats. And if AG Barr had any shred of decency, independence or pride in the DOJ he would denounce this. https://t.co/p5z8UxQ0So— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) May 21, 2019
How, exactly, are Trump's comments justified by the "unitary executive theory"? Except that the latter is a three word euphemism for "absolute monarch"?
Unitary executive, created out of some of the stupider things said by Hamilton and others of the "founders" will always, now, risk turning quickly into this kind of gangster-fascist thuggery. It has to be totally discredited then removed from the Constitution with no legalistic poetics but in explicit, clear, something you teach kids in fifth grade language. Barr is a mob lawyer, he has been his entire career, the legal elite (Mueller, for Pete's sake) have coexisted with that kind of thuggery for at least the past thirty years. Some of the most elite of Harvard Law faculty have been pushing that kind of gangster-fascism in legal journals for ages.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to give this stuff all of the discreditable association that identifying it with mobster criminality that it, in reality, is. None of this should be seen as credible enough to get its proponents through a confirmation hearing.
I think it is essential to give the House confirmation responsibilities since they are subject to the garbage that regularly gets through the Senate.