President Biden has been doing such a great job that I thought I could relax and not follow the news 4-5 hours per day.
That trust lasted about a week, from the day Biden gave his speech to Congress until this week.
Yesterday on the car radio I heard that a federal judge, Amy Berman Jackson, had looked at the memo written by the Department of Justice for then-Attorney General William Barr to support his claim that there was nothing worth charging Trump with in the Mueller report.
Judge Jackson looked at the memo supporting Barr's claim that he and the DOJ lawyers had studied the report and concluded that Mueller had produced no evidence of federal crimes done by Trump--no obstruction of justice during his campaign for president or after he was elected.
She realized that the memo was a mishmash designed to come up with a predetermined conclusion: "Nothing worth bringing Trump to court."
Back in March 2019 when we read the Mueller Report and its carefully documented 11 conclusions, and then we heard Barr's conclusion of "Nothing here," many of us said "Wha-a-a-at?"
Barr insisted that the DOJ memo supporting his claim could not be released publicly. Too special for anyone to read. But Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued for release of the memo.
This past week, or earlier, Judge Jackson got her hands on it.
She released her assessment of the report yesterday, saying that Barr was being "disingenuous" when he claimed he and the DOJ had studied and concluded that Trump could not be charged. That 5-syllable word is a polite way of saying Barr lied.
He had demanded that his underlings at the DOJ come up with some kind of reasoning to excuse Trump and keep him from being tried in court. The conclusion came before the studying of the Mueller Report, she determined.
See Spencer S. Hsu's analysis in the Washington Post today.
Judge Jackson went on to order public release of the #doj Legal Counsel memo excusing the former guy from prosecution.
I'm feeling resigned now that I need to continue to watch politics in Washington like a hawk.
I'm grateful, however, to all the voters in Georgia who helped to elect President Biden and then elected Senator Raphael Warnock and Senator Jon Ossoff, giving Democrats 50 votes in the Senate and enabling them to take control away from Mitch McConnell and the GOP.
Because of these Georgia voters and all the rest of us who voted for Biden in November 2020, we have a new attorney general: Merrick Garland. He is pursuing justice in the Department of Justice.
The former guy may now actually face criminal charges and be tried.
Let's lock him up, and Bill Barr too. Both of them. No one is above the law.
If you do not obey the law, you will be prosecuted.
The US has two choices: clean house and restore democracy--or face more criminal presidents in the future, men who want to be tyrants and don't mind asking Vladimir Putin for help in getting to power and staying there, even if they lose an election.
Listen to this MSNBC report:
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