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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump intensifies assault on rule of law as he fights for reelection
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/trump-doj-barr/index.html
(CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday went further than ever before in putting the degradation of the rule of law at the center of his reelection campaign.
Trump called on his supporters in North Carolina to act as poll watchers, to watch out for "thieving, and stealing and robbing" that he is warning without evidence will taint Election Day. He made his call at a packed rally in Winston-Salem where he and many of his fans made a mockery of the state's mask mandate -- as well as the advice of his own government amid a pandemic that has killed nearly 190,000 Americans and was exacerbated by his prioritizing politics over science.
But most shockingly, and in one of the most stunning maneuvers in the modern history of the Department of Justice, government lawyers Tuesday applied to take over the defense of Trump in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by a woman who accused him of rape in the 1990s.
The move will inflame claims that Attorney General William Barr, who misrepresented the Mueller report and has intervened in other highly political cases that are inconvenient to the President, is acting as Trump's personal lawyer and desecrating his department's traditional role.
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Trump intensifies assault on rule of law as he fights for reelection (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
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kentuck
(111,076 posts)1. What does Mitch McConnell say about that?
Anybody heard??
Nikki28
(557 posts)2. why can't congress
why can't congress just impeach Barr?Or is it too close to election.
kentuck
(111,076 posts)3. They don't want to gamble.
They prefer to play it safe.