TheAltWorld AJ Barr heading for jail too: Trump’s hatchet man to be scapegoated to save “the Donald”
Trump’s DOJ is arguing that Congress should never have heard Nixon’s “smoking gun” tape and should be barred from reviewing any further evidence of Trump’s criminality.
Since William Barr became the nation’s attorney general, Justice Department lawyers have regularly bent over backward to come up with legal arguments supporting even Donald Trump’s most outrageous actions, prompting many critics to argue that Barr is really Trump’s personal lawyer, not the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer.
This may be the week that Barr’s balancing act—of simultaneously purporting to enforce the law while defending a president who has contempt for the rule of law—finally collapses. This is because, with a letter “objecting” to the very possibility of his impeachment by Congress, Trump has announced his intention to defy the Constitution itself.
The declaration leaves Barr with a stark choice: Will he employ the Department of Justice to defend a president’s open and notorious violation of the Constitution?
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AJ Barr heading for jail too: Trump’s hatchet man to be scapegoated to save “the Donald”
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