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Under donald trump, the u.s. justice department was corrupted in multiple cases. trump didnt just want to do that he didnt just expressed a desire to do it. under bill barr, he did it because there were justice department officials who did it. who went along and took the calls, took the instructions, who squashed the stuff that white house wanted lawlessly quashed, who force the stuff that they wanted lawlessly forced. that cant stand as precedent. the u.s. justice department is too important. i...

Corrupted u.s. justice department is a terrible one and a really hard one. but it is a necessity for all the obvious reasons. you cant just wish that stuff didnt happen and agree that under your leadership it wont happen again. its a terrible job. a really hard job, but it must be done. you cant leave that stuff unpunished because it becomes precedent and we knew that job would be hard no matter who president biden picked to be his attorney general, but im not we sure we knew to expect that some...

Rights i think i should mention that the justice department under merrick garland has done nothing on voting rights. at all really. zip. every republican controlled state in the country is now moving legislation. some havent acted new laws already to rollback voting rights in ways that target voters of color, core voters, other constituencies that are considered likely to vote democratic. the u.s. justice department under merrick garland has taken no action to defend voting rights versus these n...

Letting all this stuff slide is not only not going to stop it from happening now but its not a way to stop it from happening again and i do absolutely and an cynically get the poetry that goes around comes around karma of putting merrick garland at the justice department after what happened to him not getting on the supreme court. but under merrick garland, the justice department so far is able on all of the scariest things that confront them right now. how long does that last? how long can it l...

Im deleting it. so, break free from the big three. xfinity internet customers, switch to xfinity mobile and get unlimited with 5g included for $30 the justice department will let on the nations fastest, most reliable network. the department of justice be the department of justice. let them make the judgments of who should be prosecuted. theyre not my lawyers. theyre not my personal lawyers. youre turning this into a vehicle for your own law firm. you dont own that justice department, you pick th...

Therefore, this case has to die. i remember the shock in the justice department doing that. is there similar shock today in the legal world that the justice department under merrick garland is continuing with that line of argument to the courts? >> yeah. i think its the wrong decision. now, i think if you were to ask them their views, they would say, we are defending the office of the presidency and not donald trump per se, and its important that we protect this right of the president to say wha...

Fantasy froot loops about italy and the satellites. it literally made no sense, but the white house chief of staff told the attorney general you need to have the fbi meet with the youtubers about this and investigate it formally as the u.s. justice department. now, that kind of communication from the white house to the justice department, that is a very stark, very obvious violation of longstanding justice department policy. for justice department officials to be even having that kind of a conve...

Department would represent him in that case. in fact, would insert the u.s. government as the defendant in that case to replace trump. the womans lawyer, roberta kaplan, rebutted that effectively by saying this, saying, quote, calling a woman you sexually assaulted a liar, a slut or not my type, as donald trump did here, is not the official act of an american president. a federal judge last fall agreed, but late last night the justice department, under the biden administration, the justice depar...

Late last night, the justice department under merrick garland told the court the justice department is now going to continue the position of the trump era justice department in the stomach-churning case of e. jean carroll. miss carroll, youll recall, its a very high profile case. she accused president trump of rape. he responded by insulting her and calling her a liar. in response to that, she sued him for defamation in his personal capacity as a private citizen. the allegation was about an alle...

Oh but wait, there is more. weve also learned this week about bill barr and the trump justice department going after reporters trying to get their sources. first it was reporters of the washington post, then it was the pentagon correspondent at cnn then most recently it was reported in the new york times. all of these reporters of written stories back in 2017 that in their own ways were critical of trump and the trump administration. years later in the last days of the trump administration durin...