After a two-hour hearing Friday in a case with major First Amendment implications, the Justice Department looked likely to lose the battle over its emergency motion to block the release of John Bolton’s book.
We, the taxpayers, pay the salaries of the DOJ lawyers, who are arguing on behalf of their president, to stop his former employee (whom we also paid) from telling the truth about his former boss. We pay the salaries of the judge and everyone in that court too.
Meanwhile, media outlets are already releasing all the dirtiest tidbits from the book that was already sent out to them, weeks ago.
And Conservatives want us to believe they’re the party of fiscal responsibility.
This is so much worse than that $10,000 Pentagon toilet-seat.
So, it looks like we might just get that best-case scenario:
So, no judicial orders / rullings yet … books still moving out into the supply chain … kinda like a whole herd of horses have left the barn!
no magical directives to make existing knowledge vanish ?
Nakaone is a four-star general, and “Four Star stars in the military are not shy about standing up to this particular President,” the judge said.
Based on what evidence? True, other Generals have had tiffs with Trump, but unless the judge has personal experience or evidence of Nakaone “standing up” to Trump, this is just opinion and undue deferrence.
Based on the statements of 11 generals and admirals.
But right now, it still looks like the DOJ has a very good shot at recouping his earnings, even if its arguments for the emergency request fell way short.
I don’t buy this. The government was acting in bad faith, which is demonstrable with the shift from the career employee to the political appointment employee and other evidence. This will come back to bite them as they try to lie their way out of it. Tangled webs, etc.
Basically, the book will be out on Tuesday. Gotcha.
Contains the same amount of sh*t
Wonder how much time Hitler will spend on this topic tomorrow at his Nuremberg Rally?
I won’t give Bolton one dime. Fucking traitor!
I don’t want to watch it or listen to it but I hope there are highlights!
This is a shit show from which Barr and DOJ emerge as major turds. DOJ needs a clean sweep once Trump is gone.
Flash!
What you saw was Swamp Gas.
A task comparable to that of Hercules cleaning out the Augean Stables.
I had not seen that article. Thank you.
The role played by Michael Ellis — the political appointee who intervened in the prepublication review — came up repeatedly in the hearing. Bolton claims that Ellis got involved in the review because the book would be embarrassing for the President.
The main issue is how this is all going to end. Will they be walking into the sunset? Will there be a chase? Or will it all just be a sudden ending?
I just want it to be January 20th so we can all become human beings again and live our lives (even if with covid–that would be easy if it was just that) and have this hellish world behind us. I want to wake up each day and hear the birds, and kiss my dogs, and hug my wife, and get some coffee and not check my phone to see if (1) we are in WWIII, or (2) someone I despise is dead. I think we all just want to be left alone. Biden will right the ship and leave us alone. That’s fucking good enough for me.
it’s the perfect outcome, really.
the best parts of the book are out already!