Why Bill Barr Got Rid of Geoffrey Berman This is how an authoritarian works to subvert justice.
JUNE 21, 2020 By Paul Rosenzweig
This is how an authoritarian works to subvert justice. He purports to uphold the forms of justice (in this case, the formal rule that the attorney general and the president exercise hierarchical control over the U.S. attorneys) while undermining the substance of justice. In the Flynn case, for example, Barr has asserted an absolute, unreviewable authority to bring and dismiss cases at willa power that, even if legally well founded, is a subversion of justice when misused.
Barr may want Berman out so that he can use his newly enhanced control to dismiss or short-circuit all of the pending cases in Manhattan that implicate Trump or his associates. We know those are many. We know that Trumps various organizations, including his inauguration committee, are under investigation. We know that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is under investigation. We know that Trumps bank, Deutsche Bank, is under investigation.
In addition to the behavior already mentioned, we might identify his attempt to protect Trumps tax records from disclosure, or the way he distorted the true contents of the Mueller report. Barrs actions are more like those of a consigliere to Don Trump than those of an attorney general of the United States, working for the American people.
Even that characterization is too kind to Barr. The attorney generals apparent goal is to turn the Department of Justice into an arm of the presidents personal interests. He seems to have no regard for the departments independence, and is doing long-term damage to the fabric of American justice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/why-bill-barr-got-rid-geoffrey-berman/613339/
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)I find myself more and more distraught. And I don't want to be.
elleng
(131,140 posts)so I feel a little better (now, a la All the President's Men.)
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)They're doing six ways from sunday to wreck us.
elleng
(131,140 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)Divine Intervention is what's needed.
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)and not just let them run roughshod over us and our country. We need to stand our ground and deny them power, period. It's really up to us.
ronatchig
(575 posts)Has a rail and a good supply of tar and feathers.
I'm ready to give em a ride they will not forget!
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)Saturday shpiel koo-koo, Sunday more koo-koo, Monday blah blah blah koo-koo, now into Tuesday.
It simply cannot last. His mouth runneth over majorly and continually.
I'm not in charge, but sometimes a human seem to be redemption-less. You gotta wonder.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2naSalit
(86,802 posts)Everyone who is already committed to a Biden vote aren't even listening to the bs being used against him because it doesn't matter. The thing is, there is no substance to their claims and most everyone knows it.
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)So very fricken embarrassing, distressing, unnerving to realize who is presently the so-called leader of the free world, of our nation.
Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)We dont want any of our nosy coppers snooping in any of our money laundering business that we promised our pal Putin would remain our little secret with the demented dotard Donnie.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)for laundering Russia's money in the past.
I'm sure they'd like to avoid a US version as well, however.