DOJ Says Top Officials Will Snub Congress Because Committee Was Mean To Barr | Talking Points Memo

The Justice Department on Monday told the House Judiciary Committee that several high-profile witnesses would not testify as requested because legislators had been rude to Attorney General Bill Barr.


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The Justice Department on Monday told the House Judiciary Committee that several high-profile witnesses would not testify as requested because legislators had been rude to Attorney General Bill Barr.

INHERENT CONTEMPT. USE IT!!!

Stop farting around and take back your power.

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And this is when impeachment should be considered.

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There’ve been corrupt governments. But I’ve never heard of one that acts so much like a bunch of bratty middle-schoolers.

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OFFS, Stephen E Boyd was Sessions’ communications director when Jeff was a senator. And this schmuck has nothing but AL schools for his education.
So when this is all over and done I thinks Boyd and Miller will set a business somewhere. These two seem to be muy sympatico.

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Fake snubs.
Nothing said to Barr can be mean only truthful.

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“Elected Democrats/liberals don’t count. The only people permitted to rule this country are white Christian conservatives.”

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Poor, Poor, widdle Snowflake Barr.

The dirty old Congress was MEAN to him (i.e. did not bow down and kiss his ass “as he is accustomed to.”)

What a bunch of cowardly, malevolent, narcissistic pre-schoolers the Trump Administration is.

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When Dems take back DOJ, they can not allow these criminals to escape justice.

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Barr likely won’t be impeached (there was a chance, but); the rest of them though, cut to the chase and do impeachment floor votes.

It won’t happen (Pelosi > me, as it relates to smarts), but one can dream.

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Instead, Boyd wrote at length about the indignities the attorney general experienced during his July 28 appearance before the committee, when Boyd said members of Congress chose “to use their allotted time to air grievances.”

In the main, it’s been a standard of Republican committees and committee members throughout my recent memory.
Another example of “One rule for thee, another for me?”
Why don’t they just come out and push to be made the country’s hereditary elite, wholly subject to different standards of conduct and law than the hoi polloi?

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They already are.

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So…now the House can only conduct Undersight?

WTF…The House has got to hit back. Subpoena and then slap them with a Contempt Citation and send the House Sgt at Arms to haul them in.

Fucking ridiculous.

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Sooo… no more Congressional oversight.
They’re on the verge of a supermajority on the Supreme Court, with lots of toadies in the lower courts. Compete compliance on part of the Senate. They own the DOJ. Who’s left to stop them?
The ballot?
They’ll declare victory regardless of the actual tally. Who’s left to stop them?

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Wuss. Hillary sat through 11 hours of congressional committee questioning and brushed it off like the crap that it was…

Poor liddle barr barr.

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“LOCK HIM UP!”, he said to assuage discobot.

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These last six weeks are going to be the longest decade ever.

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Present.

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Nope…none of that.

NO defeatist shit. RBG worked down til the end…we have no excuse.

Do not feed the throw in the towel gang.

Speak RUTH to POWER!!!

VOTE…

ONWARD!!!

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Yes…you are a gift. Thank you :kissing:

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