Originally published at: Todd Blanche Is Learning From Bondi’s Mistakes - TPM – Talking Points Memo
‘What Being Commander-in-Chief Is About’ It’s been reported that former Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired because, although she spent much of her time as AG trying to carry out President Trump’s retribution agenda, she was not successful enough — both in speed and outcome — at investigating and prosecuting his political opponents. There were…
The last thing we need at the DOJ is Blanche, but it may come down to he’d be an improvement on any of the other candidates.
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Blanche is actually worse than Bondi, because he’s actually smart. I don’t know what happened to him since hooking up with Trump, but unlike most of the misfits around Trump, Blanche is not an idiot. He’s become a vile scumbag, but he actually has a brain. Which makes him worse, because he knows better. So it begs the question why he is doing Trump’s bidding and pushing such outlandish positions and supporting such corruption. There’s really only a couple possibilities — either he’s compromised like many others, or else he is deliberately and consciously being evil and corrupt for the money and power himself.
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Can someone point me to the spot in the Constitution that says the president tells the DOJ who to go after?
And NO ! that is not CF as a doctor.
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So many options that you left off. And essentially, they all likely apply at the same time.
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ummm…this one
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This set up is DonOLD recreating Trump, Org. Every person in his maladministration is paid with our taxes, but they work for DonOLD.
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I suspect Blanche will be singing a different tune once the investigations into ALL of Cadet Toad-glans’ dis-administration, associates and family members begin, which, by the way, the next administration ABSOLUTELY MUST CONDUCT.
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During a press conference last week, Blanche suggested that the Trump-obliterated firewall that once existed between the White House and the Justice Department was something that should be left in the past if a president wants to properly lead a nation.
The answer to your question is while you cannot prove a negative, one of the most important purposes of the constitution is to define or otherwise limit the power of the chief executive and especially over the rule of law. That is one of the most important part of the constitution is to create uniformity in the application of laws even though it does not explicitly say the Chief Executive cannot use the law to arbitrarily prosecute or otherwise harass his critics.
But to Branch’s comment that “Trump-obliterated firewall that once existed between the White House and the Justice Department was something that should be left in the past”, unfortunately I must agree with. That is the biggest mistake Joe Biden made was appointing Merit Garland who tried to run the DoJ like the first Trump presidency never existed.
We need to accept the fact that things will not so quickly, and maybe never, return to what things were like pre-Trump.
Trump has changed Government for ever and all insisting on playing by the rules when the other guy is has no rules is assure the other guy wins.
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Jesus himself was actually kind of a doctor, with his healing the sick and curing blindness and what-not, so by the transitive property the picture does indeed show Trump as a doctor.
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Try…. New Trump Brimstone!
Radiating the spirit of the Antichrist… since 1946!
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Commander-in-Chief is the President’s Military title. Civilians (including civilian employees of the Federal Government) do not have a Commander of any sort, much less a commander-in-chief. There is a huge difference between a work supervisor (a ‘boss’, if you will) and a commander.
And even the Commander-in-Chief is limited in scope: illegal orders by the Commander-in-Chief are supposed to be ignored, although ignoring them exposes the recipient to charges of mutiny. And therein lies the clearest distinction: the worst thing a boss can do to me is to work through the procedures needed to fire me. A commander-in-chief can bring charges before a military court.
In short, Mr. Blanche just proved that he has no qualifications to be Attorney General of the United States.
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If that’s true (and it may well be), then we need to amend the Constitution to make Attorney General an elected office, elected by nationwide popular vote.
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“We have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now,” Blanche said during a press conference last week. “It is true that some of them involve men, women and entities that the president in the past has had issues with and believes should be investigated. That is his right and indeed it is his duty to do that, meaning to lead this country.”
Et tu, dumbass?
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Fuck Todd Blanche.
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I seem to recall seeing an article stating that upwards of 23,000 felony cases have been dismissed because the people that should be working on them have been canned or reassigned.
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Maybe, but that will be a doozy of a fight.
Perhaps the Federal government needs more elected officials but getting them to work with the existing elected officials will be something to see.
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No doubt about that at all. But if we want to have system of laws rather than of men, then the Chief Law Enforcement Officer has to answer to the People.
Sure, the old system worked as long as the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue accepted that there was a wall between the Oval Office and the Department of Justice–that the power of the Presidency over DoJ began and ended with the nomination of the top officials at Justice and the nomination of US Attorneys.
DonOLD Drumpf has blown that guardrail to hell. Biden tried to go back to the old method. It failed. Drumpf has explicitly politicized the Department. If the next President continues that, it becomes the new normal, and that new normal should be unacceptable. It will certainly be unstable. That means we have to fix it. Fixing it means erecting an actual constitutional wall between the two functions.
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