Questions are mounting over what role, if any, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel opinion preventing the indictment of a sitting president may have played in Manhattan federal prosecutors’ decision to back off from filing additional charges in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
It’s. A. Fucking. MEMO!
Why shouldn’t it?
The TRUMPDOJ is there for the exclusive benefit and protection of the PPresident, right?
It’s in that Constitution thingy somewhere…
Thank you, Rep. Cummings. But please don’t hold your breath waiting for a reply. We don’t want to lose you.
Day in, and day out, Cummings is the MAN. He is one of only two guys (“Little Adam Shit” being the other) of the committee chairs that fucking gets it.
Key question: Did you feel you could not indict, or were you told you could not indict, due to it being T-rump.
Cummings should, and probably will, hold a hearing on this, and being in the line prosecutors…
So you can only be found guilty of campaign finance violations if you lose?
I would guess Cummings knows the answers and just wants them on record. Too bad Barr is probably writing a memo at this very moment that says “We don’t need to answer you because…”.
A memo asking “questions.” Um, ok. What’s Rep. Cumming’s Plan B when he inevitably receives the reply “Get bent, sir.”?
This is more like it. News breaks that SDNY is shutting down with no indictments, sentient beings everywhere immediately think, “Barr!” and the next day Cummings is in effect on SDNY’s doorstep with serious questions.
Can he bottle what he has and share it around with the leadership of the Democratic House Caucus, please?
This just reconfirms for me all the suspicions and questions I have had about the DOJ since I was coming of age during the 1960’s and 70’s. I felt funny rooting for the Special Counsel having lived through Ken Starr’s fiasco with Clinton, (and then here in Texas at Baylor) Comey’s actions in 2016 reminded me that I never really trusted Boy Scouts, either.
We got free speech still because people are reading this. The type of people who have this idea of free speech and Rule of Law know that Barr is a treasonous fuck.
And NOBODY not a Trumper should EVER hesitate with offering this equation every day:
BARR=LAWLESSNESS
Nonfeasance was a classic prosecutorial technique in East Germany. Leaving party officials and the well-connected alone was often rewarded later down the line. Perhaps we are witnessing the death of rule of law and the rise of impunity among the well-connected. Of course, this is always a problem in any legal system, but the institutional memory kicks in and corrects. Now nothing happens. Crickets. Baseless excuse-making. What this suggests is that we have people working in our justice system that have given up on rule of law and are bracing for a more East German-like arrangement. We really don’t know what American fascist institutions will look like, but we have countries ahead of us in such a transition, particularly Hungary. There will be a state media, a two-track treatment of “citizens”, and erosion or perversion of meritocracy principles. Such systems have high inertia and eventually collapse economically, but having a well-motivated secret police goes a long way in keeping the wheels turning.
“this would be the second time the President has not been held accountable for his actions due to his position,” Cummings went on to write, referring to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s decision not to charge President Trump with obstruction, adding that the “Office of the President should not be used as a shield for criminal conduct.”
I like this Cummings guy.
A real indicator of what will happen to our elections in 15 months will be the demeanor of Barr, going forward.
So if there’s crystal-clear evidence that Trump rigged the next election, and he wins by virtue of having rigged it (as in 2016), there’s nothing that can be done, because presidential immunity.
That doesn’t make sense. The OLC memo, already monumentally stupid, certainly didn’t contemplate that scenario.
BREAKING: “Bill Barr Eats Elijah Cummings, Chains Princess Leia At His Feet.”
… written by a republican of dubious integrity to protect a criminal republican president (huh, some tautology). And it’s worked.
I think the question is not why you didn’t charge trump. They can truthfully say they didn’t have enough evidence to do anything because they never went beyond Cohen.
I think the question is why didn’t you investigate. According to reports they didn’t even talk to anyone about it.
It’s important that they ask for the evidence Cohen had. Didn’t they just released warrant application information and not the rest?
Another question: how exactly, do you justify allowing a decades old memo to stop you from following the actual law in perusing a dangerous, treasonous, criminal?
