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Jack is a graduate of Rutgers University where he majored in history. His career in the life and health insurance industry involved medical risk selection and brokerage management. Retired in Florida for over two decades after many years in NJ and NY, he occasionally writes, paints, plays poker, participates in play readings and is catching up on Shakespeare, Melville and Joyce, etc.

Thursday, February 13, 2020

William Barr - A Danger to Democracy - Read All About It!


Watch Out for Barr

As if his emasculation of the Mueller Report, minimizing its rebuke of the President and ignoring its suggestion of the Republican Party’s welcome of Russian aid, were not enough, Attorney General William Barr has once again demonstrated that he is not the Attorney General of the United States, but rather, the President’s personal surrogate in dealing with matters of Justice. 

His overriding of the proposed sentencing guidelines for Roger Stone, convicted by a jury, causing the four prosecutors to withdraw from the case, is strong evidence that Barr places the President’s desires over the law.  Similarly, his giving credence to Rudy Giuliani’s independent investigation into the Ukraine situation, and his reinvestigations of matters already resolved but not to the President’s liking, sheds a dark shadow on his role as Attorney General.  When the “rule of law” in this country is sacrificed for political expediency, it is time (or perhaps already too late) to worry.   

Please check out this blog’s January 20 posting where some insight into Barr’s actions is provided in “The Grand Inquisitor.”  There is also a link in that posting to the New Yorker magazine’s terrific article explaining why Barr’s strange behavior should not be a puzzle to those familiar with his background.   For those of you too lazy to check out that posting, here is the link to the New Yorker article.  I urge you to read it!  JUST CLICK RIGHT HERE FOR THE ARTICLE.


 JL

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