Attorney General Bill Barr has made a complete mockery of his position of power within the United States government on multiple different occasions ever since he turned that position into “sycophant to Donald Trump’s agenda.”
However, it seems that Barr’s recent handling of the Roger Stone case, amid the numerous instances of bending to the president’s every whim, was the straw that broke the camel’s back for a very large group of former Justice Department employees.
In an absolutely blistering public letter earlier this year, a staggering 2,000-plus former employees of the United States Justice Department said that Barr’s handling of the high-profile Roger Stone case “openly and repeatedly flouted” the oath he took to defend the United States constitution and the basic “principle of equal justice under the rule of law.”
“Although there are times when political leadership appropriately weighs in on individual prosecutions, it is unheard of for the Department’s top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President, as Attorney General Barr did in the Stone case,” the letter signed by thousands of former DOJ employees reads.
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The bipartisan, Trump-critical group Protect Democracy gathered the signatures of the former DOJ employees who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
The letter calls on current Justice Department employees to “report future abuses” and went on to note that “because we have little expectation” that Barr will actually resign “it falls to the Department’s career officials to take appropriate action to uphold their oaths of office and defend nonpartisan, apolitical justice.”
“The rule of law and the survival of our Republic demand nothing less,” the letter stated before going on to note the DOJ rule for its attorneys that states legal decisions “must be impartial and insulated from political influence.”
“Such behavior is a grave threat to the fair administration of justice. In this nation, we are all equal before the law,” the letter blisters. “A person should not be given special treatment in a criminal prosecution because they are a close political ally of the President. Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies.”
Long story short, it is far past time for Bill Barr to go.
You can read the full letter here.
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