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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRev. William Barber: Mitch McConnell Is Bringing Old Southern Justice to U.S. Senate
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/30/headlines/william_barber_mitch_mcconnell_is_bringing_old_southern_justice_to_us_senatePresident Trumps legal team offered an extraordinary new defense during the presidents impeachment trial on Wednesday. Attorney Alan Dershowitz said that a sitting president could take any action to boost his re-election chances if he felt his re-election was in the public interest.
Alan Dershowitz: If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.
Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to secure enough votes to get Trumps former national security adviser John Bolton to testify. Bolton has written in a forthcoming book that Trump personally told him he wanted to maintain a freeze on military aid to Ukraine until Ukraine turned over materials related to former Vice President Joe Biden. The White House is attempting to halt publication of Boltons book, claiming it contains classified information. This is Virginia Democratic Senator Tim Kaine.
Sen. Tim Kaine: Before theres a vote on conviction or acquittal, theres going to be a vote on whether this is a trial or a sham. Thats what the votes going to be, likely, on Friday: Is this a trial, or is this a sham?
Hundreds of protesters descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday to demand the Senate call witnesses as part of Trumps impeachment trial. This is Reverend William Barber speaking at the protest.
Rev. William Barber: What were seeing in the United States Senate is as bad as what we saw in Jim Crow. It is McConnell and other senators bringing old Southern justice to the United States Senate.
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Rev. William Barber: Mitch McConnell Is Bringing Old Southern Justice to U.S. Senate (Original Post)
G_j
Jan 2020
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KPN
(15,646 posts)1. Spot on Rev. Barber. Fuck the South ... except
all of you fine southern Democrats, genuine human beings.
oasis
(49,389 posts)2. McConnell's Jim Crow Justice Exposed! nt
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)3. The partisan
Baitball Blogger
(46,727 posts)4. Southern justice?
White privilege where white males protect each other from the consequences of their bad actions?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)5. K&R