Today's News (2020/6/23) Fascism edition
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Works a treat now, though. Anyway. News.
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Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
June 20, 2020
Trump pleads with Jay Inslee to ask him to bring in the military to crush protests in Seattle
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1274507162312757253
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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‘Magically protected’: Why hardcore Trump supporters won’t wear masks at rally
June 19, 2020
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-magically-protected-why-hardcore-trump-supporters-won-t-wear-masks-at-rally-85485125654
[EDITOR: I'm going to put this here because it's cultist/cult of personality related]
“It’s not going to touch you at the rally,” author Jeff Sharlet says of hardcore Trump supporters’ belief in the divinity and “spiritual protection” of a Trump rally against coronavirus, “You’ll be sort of magically protected.”
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Alexander Reid Ross
twitter.com/areidross
https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1275111983642099714
[THREAD]
Right-wing libertarian and anarcho-capitalist memes from Boogaloos. The Gadsden Flag snek is generally a signifier of the radical right and 2A groups; the yellow & black is an anarcho-capitalist reference; the black panther with snek indexes the desire for an illiberal alliance.
[IMAGES EMBEDDED AT URL]
[THREAD CONTINUES AT UPPER LINK]
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Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
22 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275106309059338240
Some other moments in the eternal Just Joking cycle:
- Trump invites China to probe Biden, Republicans say he was joking, Trump makes clear he was not joking
- Trump applauds Gianforte for assaulting journalist, Republicans say he was joking, Trump makes clear he was not joking
[EMBEDDED IMAGES AT URL]
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Bill Barr’s Above the Law. The Only Answer Is to Impeach Him.
The special counsel regulations don’t contemplate investigating a potentially corrupt AG-because a corrupt AG would never invoke the regulations to investigate himself.
Asha Rangappa
Updated Jun. 22, 2020
https://www.thedailybeast.com/attorney-general-bill-barrs-above-the-law-the-only-answer-is-to-impeach-him?ref=home
The latest casualty of Bill Barr’s 16-month rampage through the Justice Department is Geoffrey Berman, who until Saturday had been the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. That office has been investigating Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, among other cases of interest to the president.
On Friday, Barr tried to bamboozle the country (and, apparently, bully Berman himself) into believing that Berman had resigned his post. Berman’s day-long standoff with Barr, in which he refused to resign, included a public letter that was an S.O.S. to anyone paying attention, as he assured the public that the “office’s important cases would continue unimpeded”-suggesting that Barr was attempting to obstruct justice by removing him, which Barr ultimately succeeded in doing.
The problem is that even if Barr is attempting to obstruct justice, the current legal landscape essentially gives him a vacuum in which to do so unimpeded-unless he is impeached.
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Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
22 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275202220364107778
So, even when asked if he was just joking, Trump declines to say he was just joking -- instead repeating that "it's unfair" that "they'll report our cases are through the roof" because the US tests so much.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Daniel Dale
Twitter.com/ddale8
22 June 2020
Asked if his remark about asking to slow testing was "tongue in cheek," Trump: "Semi tongue in cheek. I say it all the time. I know some people thought it was tongue in cheek. It's unfair. We're doing so much testing, so much more than any other country...you find more cases..."
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William Barr Has Turned the Justice Department Into a Law Firm With One Client: Donald Trump
James Risen
22 June 2020
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/22/william-barr-has-turned-the-justice-department-into-a-law-firm-with-one-client-donald-trump/
The corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice under William Barr is now complete. It will take a generation to reestablish its credibility and independence.
Under Barr, the Department of Justice has two objectives: to suppress any investigation of President Trump and his associates, and to aggressively pursue investigations of his political rivals. The attorney general has turned the Justice Department into a law firm with one client: Donald Trump. Barr doesn’t even hide his intentions any longer.
In May, after Barr moved to drop the charges against Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser - even after Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI - Barr defended his actions in the case by saying that “history is written by the winners.” That is the kind of statement that might be expected from an amoral bureaucrat in a police state rather than the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
Barr’s latest move to protect Trump came over the weekend, when he fired Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. One of the nation’s most important federal prosecutors, Berman has been conducting a series of sensitive investigations into Trump associates. Berman prosecuted Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, and has prosecuted two associates of Rudy Giuliani, who is another Trump personal lawyer. Berman also brought charges against a Turkish state-owned bank in a case in which Turkey’s autocratic president has personally sought Trump’s help.
Barr clearly thought that Berman was causing too much trouble for Trump - so he decided to fire Berman and install Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton, a Trump golfing buddy with no experience as a prosecutor, into the position. Barr tried to push Berman out late Friday night, no doubt thinking that a nation distracted by a pandemic and protests would barely notice.
But Berman refused to go quietly. He quickly saw Barr’s move for exactly what it was: a raw attempt to shut down ongoing Trump-related investigations. Berman announced that he was refusing to leave, leading to a dramatic standoff.
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Trump falsely accuses Obama of treason in latest unfounded attack on his predecessor
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 9:01 PM ET, Mon June 22, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/trump-obama-treason-claim/index.html
[EDITOR: REMEMBER - THEY ALWAYS ACCUSE THE OPPOSITION OF WHAT THEY'RE GUILTY OF THEMSEVES]
(CNN)President Donald Trump has falsely accused former President Barack Obama of committing treason in his latest unfounded accusation aimed at his predecessor.
Trump for months has publicly accused Obama of committing crimes, but has repeatedly declined to say which crimes in particular when asked by reporters. But speaking with CBN News in an interview that aired Monday, Trump offered, without evidence, that Obama had committed treason for spying on his campaign.
"It's treason," Trump said. "Look, when I came out a long time ago, I said they've been spying on my campaign. I said they've been taping, and that was in quotes, meaning a modern day version of taping, it's all the same thing. But a modern day version. But they've been spying on my campaign."
In reality, there is no evidence that the Obama spied on Trump's campaign or committed any acts that reach the definition of treason. Under the Constitution, treason is narrowly defined: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
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TRANSCRIPT: John Bolton interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz
The president's former national security adviser discussed his new book.
By
ABC News
June 21, 2020
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-john-bolton-interview-abc-news-martha-raddatz/story?id=71287825#disqus_thread
MARTHA RADDATZ: Ambassador, I want talk to you about specific foreign policies, and go country by country. But what I want ask you first is a very simple question. Why is this the book President Trump doesn't want anyone to read?
JOHN BOLTON: Because this is a book of facts. It's not a book of theories or accusations or emotional responses. What I've tried to do is write 500 pages of facts, of history, that show how decisions were made in the national security field and the Trump administration.
And I think what it shows is a couple things: number one that foreign policy and defense policy are not motivated by philosophy, grand strategy or policy. This is not a conservative administration nor is policy made in a coherent, competent way. And I think these are things the American people need to know about. I obviously have conclusions and thoughts of my own in the book. But the main purpose is to lay out facts, let people read the book, and they can make up their own mind.
RADDATZ: So why wouldn't President Trump want to know about those facts?
BOLTON: Because I think it shows a pattern quite contrary to the image he would like to convey, of a decisive president who knows something about what he's doing. There really isn't any guiding principle -- that I was able to discern other than-- what's good for Donald Trump's reelection.
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Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275566806435053569
[EDITOR: Included here because Turning Point is fundamentally young fascists.]
Trump says the coronavirus has many names, such as "Wuhan" and "coronavirus"; some people in this young audience yell "KUNG FLU"; Trump says, "Kung flu, yes. Kung flu." The crowd cheers.
[SEE ALSO:
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275568703602597894
Trump falsely claims the ISIS caliphate was expanding when he took office.
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Prosecutor to tell Congress of pressure from ‘highest levels’ of Justice Dept. to cut Roger Stone ‘a break’
By Karoun Demirjian, Matt Zapotosky and Rachael Bade
June 23, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/democrats-to-subpoena-william-barr/2020/06/23/2fd49260-b558-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html
A federal prosecutor and another Justice Department official plan to tell Congress on Wednesday that Attorney General William P. Barr and his top deputies issued inappropriate orders amid investigations and trials “based on political considerations” and a desire to cater to President Trump.
Aaron Zelinsky, an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland formerly detailed to Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, will tell the House Judiciary Committee that prosecutors involved in the criminal trial of Trump’s friend Roger Stone experienced “heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Department of Justice to cut Stone a break” by requesting a lighter sentence, according to Zelinsky’s prepared remarks. The expectation, he intends to testify, was that Stone should be treated “differently and more leniently” because of his “relationship with the President.”
Zelinsky will be joined by John Elias, an official in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, who will say that Barr ordered staff to investigate marijuana company mergers simply because he “did not like the nature of their underlying business,” according to his prepared testimony.
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Kyle Cheney
twitter.com/kyledcheney
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1275500327731695618
NEWS: Aaron ZELINSKY, a prosecutor in Stone's case, describes significant political pressure in DOJ.
"What I heard - repeatedly - was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President."
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/zelinsky_opening_statement_hjc.pdf?utm_campaign=4024-519
[NEXT]
"I was explicitly told that the motivation for changing the sentencing memo was
political, and because the U.S. Attorney was “afraid of the President.”
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/zelinsky_opening_statement_hjc.pdf?utm_campaign=4024-519
[EMBEDDED IMAGE FROM PDF]
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Scoop: House Judiciary prepares to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr
Alayna Treene
23 June 2020
https://www.axios.com/house-judiciary-nadler-subpoena-attorney-general-bill-barr-4b3aa4de-a8cd-4bd9-93b2-5c51dd19c60b.html
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is preparing to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr for his testimony on July 2, a committee spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
Why it matters: The expected subpoena comes after the firing of Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who had been investigating President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1275433573324075014
This is a truly terrifying development.
Under the Trump administration's expansion of "expedited removal," ICE can snatch anyone off the street, anywhere in the US, and deport them in days if they can't prove that they're here legally, or have been here for at least two years.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Todd Ruger
twitter.com/ToddRuger
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ToddRuger/status/1275432796690006017
[THREAD]
New: DC Circuit panel rules DHS does not have to go through rulemaking process to expand its fast-track deportation process to a broader swath of immigrants, including those encountered anywhere in U.S. within 2 years of crossing
[EMBEDDED IMAGE OF DECISION EXCERPT]
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Works a treat now, though. Anyway. News.
- Trump pleads with Jay Inslee to ask him to bring in the military to crush protests in Seattle
- ‘Magically protected’: Why hardcore Trump supporters won’t wear masks at rally
- Right-wing libertarian and anarcho-capitalist memes from Boogaloos.
- Some other moments in the eternal Just Joking cycle:
- Bill Barr’s Above the Law. The Only Answer Is to Impeach Him.
- So, even when asked if he was just joking, Trump declines to say he was just joking
- William Barr Has Turned the Justice Department Into a Law Firm With One Client: Donald Trump
- Trump falsely accuses Obama of treason in latest unfounded attack on his predecessor
- TRANSCRIPT: John Bolton interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz
- Trump being racist in front of Turning Point (young fascists) crowd, to cheers
- Prosecutor to tell Congress of pressure from ‘highest levels’ of Justice Dept. to cut Roger Stone ‘a break’
- NEWS: Aaron ZELINSKY, a prosecutor in Stone's case, describes significant political pressure in DOJ.
- Scoop: House Judiciary prepares to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr
- Under the Trump administration's expansion of "expedited removal," ICE can snatch anyone off the street, anywhere in the US, and deport them in days if they can't prove that they're here legally, or have been here for at least two years.
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Aaron Rupar
twitter.com/atrupar
June 20, 2020
Trump pleads with Jay Inslee to ask him to bring in the military to crush protests in Seattle
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1274507162312757253
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
----- 2 -----
‘Magically protected’: Why hardcore Trump supporters won’t wear masks at rally
June 19, 2020
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-magically-protected-why-hardcore-trump-supporters-won-t-wear-masks-at-rally-85485125654
[EDITOR: I'm going to put this here because it's cultist/cult of personality related]
“It’s not going to touch you at the rally,” author Jeff Sharlet says of hardcore Trump supporters’ belief in the divinity and “spiritual protection” of a Trump rally against coronavirus, “You’ll be sort of magically protected.”
----- 3 -----
Alexander Reid Ross
twitter.com/areidross
https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1275111983642099714
[THREAD]
Right-wing libertarian and anarcho-capitalist memes from Boogaloos. The Gadsden Flag snek is generally a signifier of the radical right and 2A groups; the yellow & black is an anarcho-capitalist reference; the black panther with snek indexes the desire for an illiberal alliance.
[IMAGES EMBEDDED AT URL]
[THREAD CONTINUES AT UPPER LINK]
----- 4 -----
Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
22 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275106309059338240
Some other moments in the eternal Just Joking cycle:
- Trump invites China to probe Biden, Republicans say he was joking, Trump makes clear he was not joking
- Trump applauds Gianforte for assaulting journalist, Republicans say he was joking, Trump makes clear he was not joking
[EMBEDDED IMAGES AT URL]
----- 5 -----
Bill Barr’s Above the Law. The Only Answer Is to Impeach Him.
The special counsel regulations don’t contemplate investigating a potentially corrupt AG-because a corrupt AG would never invoke the regulations to investigate himself.
Asha Rangappa
Updated Jun. 22, 2020
https://www.thedailybeast.com/attorney-general-bill-barrs-above-the-law-the-only-answer-is-to-impeach-him?ref=home
The latest casualty of Bill Barr’s 16-month rampage through the Justice Department is Geoffrey Berman, who until Saturday had been the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. That office has been investigating Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, among other cases of interest to the president.
On Friday, Barr tried to bamboozle the country (and, apparently, bully Berman himself) into believing that Berman had resigned his post. Berman’s day-long standoff with Barr, in which he refused to resign, included a public letter that was an S.O.S. to anyone paying attention, as he assured the public that the “office’s important cases would continue unimpeded”-suggesting that Barr was attempting to obstruct justice by removing him, which Barr ultimately succeeded in doing.
The problem is that even if Barr is attempting to obstruct justice, the current legal landscape essentially gives him a vacuum in which to do so unimpeded-unless he is impeached.
----- 6 -----
Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
22 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275202220364107778
So, even when asked if he was just joking, Trump declines to say he was just joking -- instead repeating that "it's unfair" that "they'll report our cases are through the roof" because the US tests so much.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Daniel Dale
Twitter.com/ddale8
22 June 2020
Asked if his remark about asking to slow testing was "tongue in cheek," Trump: "Semi tongue in cheek. I say it all the time. I know some people thought it was tongue in cheek. It's unfair. We're doing so much testing, so much more than any other country...you find more cases..."
----- 7 -----
William Barr Has Turned the Justice Department Into a Law Firm With One Client: Donald Trump
James Risen
22 June 2020
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/22/william-barr-has-turned-the-justice-department-into-a-law-firm-with-one-client-donald-trump/
The corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice under William Barr is now complete. It will take a generation to reestablish its credibility and independence.
Under Barr, the Department of Justice has two objectives: to suppress any investigation of President Trump and his associates, and to aggressively pursue investigations of his political rivals. The attorney general has turned the Justice Department into a law firm with one client: Donald Trump. Barr doesn’t even hide his intentions any longer.
In May, after Barr moved to drop the charges against Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser - even after Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI - Barr defended his actions in the case by saying that “history is written by the winners.” That is the kind of statement that might be expected from an amoral bureaucrat in a police state rather than the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
Barr’s latest move to protect Trump came over the weekend, when he fired Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. One of the nation’s most important federal prosecutors, Berman has been conducting a series of sensitive investigations into Trump associates. Berman prosecuted Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, and has prosecuted two associates of Rudy Giuliani, who is another Trump personal lawyer. Berman also brought charges against a Turkish state-owned bank in a case in which Turkey’s autocratic president has personally sought Trump’s help.
Barr clearly thought that Berman was causing too much trouble for Trump - so he decided to fire Berman and install Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton, a Trump golfing buddy with no experience as a prosecutor, into the position. Barr tried to push Berman out late Friday night, no doubt thinking that a nation distracted by a pandemic and protests would barely notice.
But Berman refused to go quietly. He quickly saw Barr’s move for exactly what it was: a raw attempt to shut down ongoing Trump-related investigations. Berman announced that he was refusing to leave, leading to a dramatic standoff.
----- 8 -----
Trump falsely accuses Obama of treason in latest unfounded attack on his predecessor
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 9:01 PM ET, Mon June 22, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/trump-obama-treason-claim/index.html
[EDITOR: REMEMBER - THEY ALWAYS ACCUSE THE OPPOSITION OF WHAT THEY'RE GUILTY OF THEMSEVES]
(CNN)President Donald Trump has falsely accused former President Barack Obama of committing treason in his latest unfounded accusation aimed at his predecessor.
Trump for months has publicly accused Obama of committing crimes, but has repeatedly declined to say which crimes in particular when asked by reporters. But speaking with CBN News in an interview that aired Monday, Trump offered, without evidence, that Obama had committed treason for spying on his campaign.
"It's treason," Trump said. "Look, when I came out a long time ago, I said they've been spying on my campaign. I said they've been taping, and that was in quotes, meaning a modern day version of taping, it's all the same thing. But a modern day version. But they've been spying on my campaign."
In reality, there is no evidence that the Obama spied on Trump's campaign or committed any acts that reach the definition of treason. Under the Constitution, treason is narrowly defined: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
----- 9 -----
TRANSCRIPT: John Bolton interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz
The president's former national security adviser discussed his new book.
By
ABC News
June 21, 2020
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-john-bolton-interview-abc-news-martha-raddatz/story?id=71287825#disqus_thread
MARTHA RADDATZ: Ambassador, I want talk to you about specific foreign policies, and go country by country. But what I want ask you first is a very simple question. Why is this the book President Trump doesn't want anyone to read?
JOHN BOLTON: Because this is a book of facts. It's not a book of theories or accusations or emotional responses. What I've tried to do is write 500 pages of facts, of history, that show how decisions were made in the national security field and the Trump administration.
And I think what it shows is a couple things: number one that foreign policy and defense policy are not motivated by philosophy, grand strategy or policy. This is not a conservative administration nor is policy made in a coherent, competent way. And I think these are things the American people need to know about. I obviously have conclusions and thoughts of my own in the book. But the main purpose is to lay out facts, let people read the book, and they can make up their own mind.
RADDATZ: So why wouldn't President Trump want to know about those facts?
BOLTON: Because I think it shows a pattern quite contrary to the image he would like to convey, of a decisive president who knows something about what he's doing. There really isn't any guiding principle -- that I was able to discern other than-- what's good for Donald Trump's reelection.
----- 10 -----
Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275566806435053569
[EDITOR: Included here because Turning Point is fundamentally young fascists.]
Trump says the coronavirus has many names, such as "Wuhan" and "coronavirus"; some people in this young audience yell "KUNG FLU"; Trump says, "Kung flu, yes. Kung flu." The crowd cheers.
[SEE ALSO:
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1275568703602597894
Trump falsely claims the ISIS caliphate was expanding when he took office.
----- 11 -----
Prosecutor to tell Congress of pressure from ‘highest levels’ of Justice Dept. to cut Roger Stone ‘a break’
By Karoun Demirjian, Matt Zapotosky and Rachael Bade
June 23, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/democrats-to-subpoena-william-barr/2020/06/23/2fd49260-b558-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html
A federal prosecutor and another Justice Department official plan to tell Congress on Wednesday that Attorney General William P. Barr and his top deputies issued inappropriate orders amid investigations and trials “based on political considerations” and a desire to cater to President Trump.
Aaron Zelinsky, an assistant U.S. attorney in Maryland formerly detailed to Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation, will tell the House Judiciary Committee that prosecutors involved in the criminal trial of Trump’s friend Roger Stone experienced “heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Department of Justice to cut Stone a break” by requesting a lighter sentence, according to Zelinsky’s prepared remarks. The expectation, he intends to testify, was that Stone should be treated “differently and more leniently” because of his “relationship with the President.”
Zelinsky will be joined by John Elias, an official in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, who will say that Barr ordered staff to investigate marijuana company mergers simply because he “did not like the nature of their underlying business,” according to his prepared testimony.
----- 12 -----
Kyle Cheney
twitter.com/kyledcheney
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1275500327731695618
NEWS: Aaron ZELINSKY, a prosecutor in Stone's case, describes significant political pressure in DOJ.
"What I heard - repeatedly - was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President."
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/zelinsky_opening_statement_hjc.pdf?utm_campaign=4024-519
[NEXT]
"I was explicitly told that the motivation for changing the sentencing memo was
political, and because the U.S. Attorney was “afraid of the President.”
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/zelinsky_opening_statement_hjc.pdf?utm_campaign=4024-519
[EMBEDDED IMAGE FROM PDF]
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Scoop: House Judiciary prepares to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr
Alayna Treene
23 June 2020
https://www.axios.com/house-judiciary-nadler-subpoena-attorney-general-bill-barr-4b3aa4de-a8cd-4bd9-93b2-5c51dd19c60b.html
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is preparing to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr for his testimony on July 2, a committee spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
Why it matters: The expected subpoena comes after the firing of Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who had been investigating President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
----- 14 -----
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1275433573324075014
This is a truly terrifying development.
Under the Trump administration's expansion of "expedited removal," ICE can snatch anyone off the street, anywhere in the US, and deport them in days if they can't prove that they're here legally, or have been here for at least two years.
[QUOTED TWEET]
Todd Ruger
twitter.com/ToddRuger
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/ToddRuger/status/1275432796690006017
[THREAD]
New: DC Circuit panel rules DHS does not have to go through rulemaking process to expand its fast-track deportation process to a broader swath of immigrants, including those encountered anywhere in U.S. within 2 years of crossing
[EMBEDDED IMAGE OF DECISION EXCERPT]
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