Page 2 - Small J News Today

Enforcement, he really did use the justice department to lawlessly go after his enemies and reward his friends. under donald trump, the u.s. justice department was corrupted in multiple cases. trump didnt just want to do that, he didnt just express a desire to do it. under bill barr, he did it because there were justice department officials who did it, who went along, who took the calls, who took the instructions, who quashed the stuff that the white house wanted lawlessly quashed. who forced th...

Thats just the start of it. two federal judges already have ruled that the justice department under donald trump, william barr lied to the public and to the court about president trumps own potential criminal culpability in office. just last month, a federal judge ruled that justice department lawyers under trump and justice department officials under trump have lied to the court about the consideration of federal criminal charges against trump when he was in office. that judge ordered the justi...

Policy as former attorney general explained in our interview. very clear violations of the justice department and a really serious issue. thats justice department officials breaking justice department policy, miss behaving in serious and substantive ways. what do you do about that? what is merrick garland now in charge of the justice department doing to clean up the behavior of his agency under its previous leadership? to find out what happened, to make sure people get in trouble for having done...

Carroll case coming up later on in the show. were also watching closely now in terms of how the justice department is going to go after reporters sources. after this kerfuffle with the washington post reporters in the new york times reporters just today new threats from the biden administration that they have opened a massive leak investigation into the source behind this big bombshell story from propublica about the richest americans radically under paying their taxes compared with regular amer...

Personally represent me and the state of new york on my not allowing my tax returns. whats that all about? what is that about? >> yeah what was that all about? that was candidate joe biden last fall criticizing president trump for you turning the department into his own personal law firm, including the justice department telling the court, telling the federal court that trump was engaged in his official duties as president of the united states when he said about a woman who accused him of rape h...

Used for corrupt purposes to help the presidents friends. you cant leave that standing as precedent. that has to be addressed. that has to be readdressed. but thats just the start of it. two federal judges already have ruled that the justice department under donald trump and trumps attorney general, william barr, lied to the public and the court about president trumps own potential criminal culpability in office. just last month, the federal judge ruled that justice department lawyers under trum...

Is there similar shock today in the legal worlds that the justice department under merrick garland is continuing to 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 to this right of the president to say whatever it is he needs to say in the scope of his duties. but the recent this fails, i think,...

Told the attorney general you need to have the fbi meet with the youtubers about this and investigated formally as the former u.s. justice department. now that kind of communication from the white house to the justice department is a very stark, very obvious violation of long-standing justice department policy. for justice department officials to me even having that kind of conversation with the white house chief of staff at all, let alone entertaining multiple requests for him to open these inv...

The independence of the justice department and a commitment to be nonpartisan in all of his decisions but i think maybe hes overcorrected. he is reminding me of the dad who coaches his own child in little league and out of an abundance to show just how fair he is, benches his own kid even though hes the best player. nobody notices how far you are if you lose the game. >> on the e. jean carroll case, i remember the shocked across the legal world and certainly the news reading the public when the ...

Kaplan, rebooted that effectively by saying this. saying, quote, calling a woman he sexually assaulted a liar, a slot, or not my type is donald trump did here is not the official act of an american president. federal judge last full agreed but late last night, the justice department under the biden administration the justice department led by merrick garland said they would appeal that judges ruling and try to continue with the trump justice departments case that trump cannot be held liable for ...