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ffr

(22,670 posts) Mon Jan 6, 2020, 07:44 PM Jan 2020

If you like Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), you'll love his letter to William Barr & John Durham

I couldn't find this posted on DU already and it isn't news, it was penned Dec 19, 2019.

“Mr. Barr, your course of conduct makes clear your allegiance is to Donald Trump over the Department of Justice and American people that you serve. You are unfit to hold the position of Attorney General and your dedication to eroding public trust in our legal systems represents the antithesis of what a Justice Department official should be. Mr. Durham is equally as complicit in this mission and together your actions demonstrate that neither of you possess the integrity necessary to serve in the Department of Justice.

For these reasons, we demand your immediate resignation as Attorney General and that of U.S. Attorney Durham.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham on Dec. 19, 2019, demanding they resign for acting as mouth pieces for Donald Trump rather than public servants bound to the rule of law. The letter is also signed by Reps. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX), Rashida Tlaib (MI), William Lacy Clay (MO), Jared Huffman (CA), Jan Schakowsky (IL), Frank Pallone (NJ), David Cicilline (RI), Raúl Grijalva (AZ), Pramila Jayapal (WA) and Steve Cohen (TN). - HankJohnson.house.gov

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If you like Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), you'll love his letter to William Barr & John Durham (Original Post) ffr Jan 2020 OP

Succinct truth is a heavyweight blow bucolic_frolic Jan 2020 #1

I don't know much about Johnson, but I love the letter! PatrickforO Jan 2020 #2

He's my congressman CatWoman Jan 2020 #5

Mine too! gademocrat7 Jan 2020 #7

I was very impressed with Hank Johnson wnylib Jan 2020 #3

Bravo. Too bad letters and tweets and emails Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2020 #4

If nothing else...I am learning dozens of US Reps that I admire.. Hulk Jan 2020 #6

I love Hank Johnson. He's low key (some might derogatorily say "low energy") but.... George II Jan 2020 #8

Good on Rep Johnson. He used to be my Rep. He's a practicing buddhist, He inspired me tulipsandroses Jan 2020 #9

Kick dalton99a Jan 2020 #10

K&R UTUSN Jan 2020 #11

bucolic_frolic

(43,188 posts)

1. Succinct truth is a heavyweight blow

Reply to ffr (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:04 PM

Jan 2020

even the public understands it.

PatrickforO

(14,578 posts)

2. I don't know much about Johnson, but I love the letter!

Reply to ffr (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:40 PM

Jan 2020

I also like the other House members who signed.

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)

5. He's my congressman

Reply to PatrickforO (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:53 PM

Jan 2020

as he replaced Cynthia McKinney in GA 4

gademocrat7

(10,660 posts)

7. Mine too!

Reply to CatWoman (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 10:11 PM

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wnylib

(21,487 posts)

3. I was very impressed with Hank Johnson

Reply to ffr (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:42 PM

Jan 2020

during the House hearings. His letter is excellent, of the quality I would expect from him.

But, alas, it is not going to be heeded. And there is nothing we can do about that, except, perhaps to use his words and the values they represent to arouae public opinion and action regarding Trump and his team of democracy destroyers.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

4. Bravo. Too bad letters and tweets and emails

Reply to ffr (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:45 PM

Jan 2020

are obsolete in the trump era. But guess that's all we got.

Hulk

(6,699 posts)

6. If nothing else...I am learning dozens of US Reps that I admire..

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Mon Jan 6, 2020, 10:11 PM

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Some are from my home state, some from my region...but sadly NOT the worthless jamie hererra-buetler that represents me from Washington state.

I certainly hope we can change that in 2020. How she ever gets re-elected blows my mind.

George II

(67,782 posts)

8. I love Hank Johnson. He's low key (some might derogatorily say "low energy") but....

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Mon Jan 6, 2020, 10:16 PM

Jan 2020

....he gets to the point searingly without histrionics or emotion. He's the one who called out Matt Gaetz' attack on Hunter Biden's drug issues when Gaetz went on and on about it.

tulipsandroses

(5,124 posts)

9. Good on Rep Johnson. He used to be my Rep. He's a practicing buddhist, He inspired me

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Tue Jan 7, 2020, 01:47 AM

Jan 2020

I grew up in an evangelical family. So when I started questioning what I had always been taught. It was really a weird feeling in the beginning. My family didn't understand. They basically wanted to perform an exorcism when I told them I was agnostic. LOL.

Then I heard Rep Johnson speak about being a buddhist. He wasn't the first black person I had heard say he was buddhist, but it was the first black person since walking away from religion that I paid attention to. He seemed so at peace talking about it. I said to myself, there are other people that actually are NOT black baptist, pentecostal, etc? that are happy with their choice and don't think they are going to go to hell? He somehow made me realize at that time, it was ok.

By the way he also had strong words for Rep Wilson's infamous you lie statement towards President Obama. He said if Rep Wilson was not reprimanded. It would be like allowing the people in white hoods to ride again. I'm paraphrasing. Something to that effect. He was widely criticized in GA for saying that. Go figure. Not Wilson. But Rep Johnson! Now fast forward to today. What to we have? A white supremacist in the White House and yes, damn it people in white hoods riding again and the president saying they are very fine people!

dalton99a

(81,516 posts)

10. Kick

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Tue Jan 7, 2020, 01:54 AM

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UTUSN

(70,711 posts)

11. K&R

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Tue Jan 7, 2020, 07:29 AM

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