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Remember when Bill Barr was auditioning for the AG's job? He wrote a memo with his views on a topic he knew would please Don.
Last month, news broke that in June 2018, President Trump’s current nominee for attorney general, William P. Barr, sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to the Justice Department critiquing special counsel Robert Mueller’s current investigation into Russian election interference.
Barr, who previously served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, penned the memo as “a former official deeply concerned with the institutions of the Presidency and the Department of Justice.” The memo questions the scope of Mueller’s investigation, and it argues that Mueller should not be permitted to demand answers from the president about possible obstruction of justice based on attempts by Trump to pressure former FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation of Trump’s ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Bill was a fan of what is referred to as the unitary executive theory. A theory existing inside a circle of conservative thinkers no doubt trump never heard of it since it would have required that he read something beyond his social media posts. But he immediately knew he liked what it said. It posits the authority of the executive is extremely more expansive than has been found in our tradition to date. Music to the ears of a man seeking dictatorial powers.
Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.
If courts — specifically the Republican-appointed majority of the Supreme Court — uphold arguments based on the so-called “unitary executive theory,” it would give Trump and subsequent presidents unprecedented power to remove and replace any federal employee and impose their will on every decision in every agency.
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The con trump is currently trying to pull off is using the existence of waste as a cudgel to amass unchecked power. To exert absolute authority to remake the government in his image. An image prioritizing loyalty to him over all else, bigotry pretending to be meritocracy, and a willingness to skirt the law in pursuit of said image.
He's finding out an awful lot of people, not all Dem's, are not comfortable with his goal. People who believe that much power is too much power. And they are beginning to raise a fuss. They don't object to streamlining the government where necessary. They object to the clumsy, reckless, incompetent way it's being done. As well as the assertion he has the right to continue no matter what the law says.
William Barr’s Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice
Last month, news broke that in June 2018, President Trump’s current nominee for attorney general, William P. Barr, sent an unsolicited 20-page memo to the Justice Department critiquing special counsel Robert Mueller’s current investigation into Russian election interference.
Barr, who previously served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, penned the memo as “a former official deeply concerned with the institutions of the Presidency and the Department of Justice.” The memo questions the scope of Mueller’s investigation, and it argues that Mueller should not be permitted to demand answers from the president about possible obstruction of justice based on attempts by Trump to pressure former FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation of Trump’s ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Bill was a fan of what is referred to as the unitary executive theory. A theory existing inside a circle of conservative thinkers no doubt trump never heard of it since it would have required that he read something beyond his social media posts. But he immediately knew he liked what it said. It posits the authority of the executive is extremely more expansive than has been found in our tradition to date. Music to the ears of a man seeking dictatorial powers.
What Is Unitary Executive Theory? How is Trump Using It to Push His Agenda?
Since taking office, President Donald Trump has executed a whirlwind of dismissals across the federal government that violated federal statutes and decreed numerous executive orders, including one that blatantly defied the plain language of the Constitution.Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of his second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.
If courts — specifically the Republican-appointed majority of the Supreme Court — uphold arguments based on the so-called “unitary executive theory,” it would give Trump and subsequent presidents unprecedented power to remove and replace any federal employee and impose their will on every decision in every agency.
What Is Unitary Executive Theory? How is Trump Using It to Push His Agenda?
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www.democracydocket.com
The con trump is currently trying to pull off is using the existence of waste as a cudgel to amass unchecked power. To exert absolute authority to remake the government in his image. An image prioritizing loyalty to him over all else, bigotry pretending to be meritocracy, and a willingness to skirt the law in pursuit of said image.
He's finding out an awful lot of people, not all Dem's, are not comfortable with his goal. People who believe that much power is too much power. And they are beginning to raise a fuss. They don't object to streamlining the government where necessary. They object to the clumsy, reckless, incompetent way it's being done. As well as the assertion he has the right to continue no matter what the law says.
