nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

"In recent years, we have seen substantial encroachment by Congress in the area of executive privilege. The Executive Branch and the Supreme Court have long recognized that the need for confidentiality in Executive Branch decision-making necessarily means that some communications must remain off limits to Congress and the public. There was a time when Congress respected this important principle as well. But today, Congress is increasingly quick to dismiss good-faith attempts to protect Executive Branch equities, labeling such efforts “obstruction of Congress” and holding Cabinet Secretaries in contempt.

One of the ironies of today is that those who oppose this President constantly accuse this Administration of “shredding” constitutional norms and waging a war on the rule of law. When I ask my friends on the other side, what exactly are you referring to? I get vacuous stares, followed by sputtering about the Travel Ban or some such thing. While the President has certainly thrown out the traditional Beltway playbook, he was upfront about that beforehand, and the people voted for him. What I am talking about today are fundamental constitutional precepts. The fact is that this Administration’s policy initiatives and proposed rules, including the Travel Ban, have transgressed neither constitutional, nor traditional, norms, and have been amply supported by the law and patiently litigated through the Court system to vindication.

Indeed, measures undertaken by this Administration seem a bit tame when compared to some of the unprecedented steps taken by the Obama Administration’s aggressive exercises of Executive power – such as, under its DACA program, refusing to enforce broad swathes of immigration law.

The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of “Resistance” against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. "


http://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-19th-annual-barbara-k-olson-memorial-lecture

Lonewolf

Says the corrupt AG

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

It is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

AG Barr speaks at US Attorneys' Natl Conference

An Attorney General who plays the Highland bagpipe cannot possibly be corrupt.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Exactly!!!!

woodguru

Right, like McConnell refusing to acknowledge an obama supreme court pick, or jamming through right wing ideological judges without following the rules?

woodguru

What does that have to do with being corrupt? Barr flew his colors when he tried to illegally suppress the whistleblower report.

The attorney general should have zero interaction with the president, if the president wants something it is supposed to be handled through official channels between the white house and DOJ. Official meaning on the record

factnotfiction

The malfunctioning trumpcon brain exposed again, however gay blade probably enjoys the playing of a bagpipe, whether it is lit or not

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Since when?

emarine

Since before trump put corruption on steroids ... how many trumpers have been jailed or indicted to date... quit or been fired... this administration is a bad joke...

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Only to those who embrace Karl Marx' political philosophy rather than our American system of government.

emarine

You mean like honest republicans like Jeff Sessions who recused himself rather than had a conflict of interest between the Constitution & Trump or Barr current hitman for trump...

Cuda2020

What is systematic is the rolling over and destruction of our constitution by our president and his unjust loyalists to himself over country.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

So, you don't really know the story behind Obama's "supreme court pick". Obama blew that one when he went against his own progressive base and picked a 63 year old centrist. It was a political gambit to test senate Republicans. Didn't work.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

You are stuck with this lie. This sort of projection is pathological.