Trump Makes A Big Move - Scary

[lame54]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-william-barr-demands-end-to-nationwide-injunctions-empowering-lone-sympathetic-judges

[TeamPooka]

1. Fuck Barr.

[sprinkleeninow]

4. That and oh yeah, barrf? Mb you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Was that an OP?
Blah, blah, fricken blah...
My whole immediate family served in WWII and my daddy saw action. You and your ilk assume y'all exemplify patriotism. Fat chance. Anti-Americans.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. LOL! He says we have a democratic system!

Too funny!

[OnDoutside]

3. Well, a signal of a big move, which would indeed move the US

onto the next stage of authoritarian rule.

[CottonBear]

5. AG William Barr demands end to nationwide injunctions empowering lone 'sympathetic' judges

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-william-barr-demands-end-to-nationwide-injunctions-empowering-lone-sympathetic-judges

AG William Barr demands end to nationwide injunctions empowering lone 'sympathetic' judges

Attorney General William Barr is calling for an end to nationwide injunctions, which have become recurrent obstacles in the way of President Trump's agenda.

With the frequency of judges' orders blocking the enforcement of federal laws and policies on the rise, Barr's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal escalates the Justice Department's fight to check this facet of the judicial branch's power.

Nationwide injunctions, he wrote, "create an unfair, one-way system in which the democratically accountable government must fend off case after case to put its policy into effect, while those challenging the policy need only find a single sympathetic judge."

Barr alluded to the framers of the Constitution, asserting they never intended the courts to "act as a 'council of revision' with sweeping authority to reach beyond concrete controversies and rule on the legality of actions taken by the political branches."

..snip...

[tanyev]

9. But he's perfectly OK with the one-way system of executive orders.

As long as Trump is the one signing them.

[CottonBear]

10. Of course he is OK w/ executive orders: he's an autocratic fascist!

God god, I don’t know how much more I can take. Every day tings a fresh atrocity.

[underpants]

6. He actually quoted Clarence Thomas?

Barr ended his op-ed by quoting conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who said in 2018 that nationwide injunctions are “legally and historically dubious" and called on federal courts to consider adjudicating their use.

[hlthe2b]

7. Huff and Puff, but this is the judiciary, not the executive that makes these decisions

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Barr works for a higher power, the CIA

Bill Barr: The "Cover-Up General"

"At the center of the criticism is the chief artic­ulator of Bush's imperial presidency," we reported in 1992, "the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad"

by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019



The Village Voice, October 27, 1992

“Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton”

Excerpt....

SON OF THE CIA

It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agency’s Vietnam task force. Jovial and un­assuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a to­ken of things to come.

Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Uni­versity’s roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our genera­tion into a decade of rage. Barr, a conserva­tive student spokesman, preached tough­ness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineer­ing faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, depu­ty attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.

Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agency’s legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was for­mative for Barr, turning him into an impla­cable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.

“The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republi­can,” he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutch­es even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for — and got — Bush’s backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan in­quiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the adminis­tration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.

Source...

https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/

Barr specializes in protecting traitors for a rea$on.