Neil Katyal just said that 'he's destroyed the Department of Justice.'

[elleng]

I think I got that right.

[napi21]

1. Just get rud id Barr & the Justice Dept. will be fine! n/t

[TomSlick]

3. Yes, but it will take some time.

There will be a need to clean out the riff-raff and then rehire or replace the real lawyers.

Even then, it will take years to restore the DoJ reputation. Reputations take years to build but can be destroyed almost instantly.

[napi21]

4. I don't believe it will take a LONG time. Most raational people know it was Barr & DT that screwed

up the DOJ. Put a respected atty. to head the Dept. & I bet their reputation will be restored in less than a year.

[TomSlick]

6. I hope you are correct.

[lastlib]

2. Shitgibbon (Emperor Palpatine) & (Jabba) Barr have turned it....

...into the Dept. of Crony Protection & Enemy Persecution. eom

[pat_k]

5. He intentionally destroyed every executive agency.

The problem isn't the need for a smooth transition. We are inheriting a building that has been infested with rats and poison ivy. . . where it hasn't been completely gutted.

Unfortunately, democrats have never been very effective at "pest and weed control" when they take over power from a Republican administration. (While the Republicans are utterly ruthless in purging Dems and sane people.)

Biden's "bipartisan" talk makes me extremely nervous. Trump minions, cronies, and the hundreds of vassals -- or simply idiots -- that have infiltrated the executive branch must be purged, not "worked with.

[bdamomma]

7. The State Department too

tRump is going by Putin's commands.


Putin saying to tRump You can't be in the strongman club until you make the US irrelevant.

[crickets]

8. Bingo. The State Department will take a lot longer to recover than the DOJ.

It's truly sad how much institutional knowledge and continuity has been wrecked by this administration.