I was always proud to be an American. I try to live my life as an honest hard-working citizen and show respect for others. I am appalled at the men and women in congress who are in violation of their sworn oath to the constitution and their duty to protect and defend the US against all enemies foreign or domestic. This is an affront to all the men and women who paid the ultimate price to defend our country! I never thought I would ever say this, but I am ashamed to call myself an American at this time. When will this insanity stop? This really is like one flew over the cuckoos nest!
Mimi Rocah is the best. The Felon is so pathetic. With the help of the six Christian Nationalists on the Supreme Court, the Felon escaped criminal prosecution. There is nothing in the Constitution giving any President of the United States immunity for his/her illegal acts (official or otherwise). For the six Justices, who say they do not believe in making law, they certainly have done so time and again.
Unfortunately, it’s not about ignoring the dangers, the six Christian Nationalists on the Supreme Court fostered the danger with their ruling giving the Felon immunity.
Mimi is amazing she tells it like it is and doesn’t sugarcoat anything. The DOJ has been corrupted by sycophants. The GOP bitched and moaned about the Biden DOJ being biased but they prosecuted a number of Democrats including Hunter Biden, Robert Menendez, and Eric Adams to name a few. How many in the GOP have been prosecuted by Trump’s DOJ? Crickets.
I agree that Mimi Rocah is wonderful. FYI...One of the goals of Project 2025, is to "allow the President to have complete legal control of the Department of Justice." I'm not an attorney so I looked it up, and the Constitution doesn't even mention the DOJ.
"It was created in 1870 during the presidency of President Ulysses S. Grant, when the federal government committed itself to guaranteeing full citizenship rights to all Americans, regardless of race. Strangely enough, Amos T. Ackerman a former enslaver from Georgia was appointed to head it, but he felt it was his duty to participate in the politics of the Union, and that subjugation of one race by another should be buried, like slavery.
"The focus of his 18-month tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement official was the protection of black voting rights from the systematic violence of the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman’s Justice Department prosecuted and chased from Southern states hundreds of Klan members. Historian William McFeely, in his biography of Akerman, wrote, “Perhaps no attorney general since his tenure…has been more vigorous in the prosecution of cases designed to protect the lives and rights of black Americans.”
It would be a sacrilege for Trump to control the DOJ.
Every time I read a story about someone like Todd Blanche, I ask myself “were they always corrupt and no one knew or were they always corruptible and simply waiting for the right opportunity?” Maybe I am wrong, but I do not believe people change their stripes. I don’t believe you have integrity and then lose it. Or that you have a moral compass and then ignore it. Or that you believe in the rule of law until someone pays to break it. I think you just pretended to have these as your core values because it was profitable to do so. In reality, you were simply waiting for someone who could meet your price.
Money and power can corrupt people. I have a brother than went from being a Liberal to a NeoCon to a Libertarian. The change occurred when you worked at a high powered securities law firm that did a lot of paperwork behind mergers and acquisitions.
I think you can only corrupt someone who lacks integrity. I don’t buy into the argument that “we all have our price.” I did a lot of M&A work with public companies in my career and routinely encountered huge egos and lots of money changing hands. That, plus the rest of what I saw as everyday life in corporate America, cemented my liberal leanings.
We have had corrupt and lawless attorneys general before: Daugherty under Harding, Nixon's John Mitchell, Alberto Gonzalez. Bondi eclipses them all, and will be remembered as the absolute worst. This is what actual "weaponization" of DOJ looks like.
Trump/Musk/Vance & their minions are all deplorable. Working in tandem, they are frightening. But I believe in the rule of law and the inherent goodness of most of the people in our country. I believe if we all untie we can beat them back and retrieve our Democracy from their greedy clutches.
I'm not numb. I'm petrified.
I was always proud to be an American. I try to live my life as an honest hard-working citizen and show respect for others. I am appalled at the men and women in congress who are in violation of their sworn oath to the constitution and their duty to protect and defend the US against all enemies foreign or domestic. This is an affront to all the men and women who paid the ultimate price to defend our country! I never thought I would ever say this, but I am ashamed to call myself an American at this time. When will this insanity stop? This really is like one flew over the cuckoos nest!
Mimi Rocah is the best. The Felon is so pathetic. With the help of the six Christian Nationalists on the Supreme Court, the Felon escaped criminal prosecution. There is nothing in the Constitution giving any President of the United States immunity for his/her illegal acts (official or otherwise). For the six Justices, who say they do not believe in making law, they certainly have done so time and again.
One can only hope that today's words from Chief Justice Rogers today is indicating an awareness of the dangers they have been ignoring.
Unfortunately, it’s not about ignoring the dangers, the six Christian Nationalists on the Supreme Court fostered the danger with their ruling giving the Felon immunity.
Mimi is amazing she tells it like it is and doesn’t sugarcoat anything. The DOJ has been corrupted by sycophants. The GOP bitched and moaned about the Biden DOJ being biased but they prosecuted a number of Democrats including Hunter Biden, Robert Menendez, and Eric Adams to name a few. How many in the GOP have been prosecuted by Trump’s DOJ? Crickets.
Very sobering.
I agree that Mimi Rocah is wonderful. FYI...One of the goals of Project 2025, is to "allow the President to have complete legal control of the Department of Justice." I'm not an attorney so I looked it up, and the Constitution doesn't even mention the DOJ.
"It was created in 1870 during the presidency of President Ulysses S. Grant, when the federal government committed itself to guaranteeing full citizenship rights to all Americans, regardless of race. Strangely enough, Amos T. Ackerman a former enslaver from Georgia was appointed to head it, but he felt it was his duty to participate in the politics of the Union, and that subjugation of one race by another should be buried, like slavery.
"The focus of his 18-month tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement official was the protection of black voting rights from the systematic violence of the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman’s Justice Department prosecuted and chased from Southern states hundreds of Klan members. Historian William McFeely, in his biography of Akerman, wrote, “Perhaps no attorney general since his tenure…has been more vigorous in the prosecution of cases designed to protect the lives and rights of black Americans.”
It would be a sacrilege for Trump to control the DOJ.
Every time I read a story about someone like Todd Blanche, I ask myself “were they always corrupt and no one knew or were they always corruptible and simply waiting for the right opportunity?” Maybe I am wrong, but I do not believe people change their stripes. I don’t believe you have integrity and then lose it. Or that you have a moral compass and then ignore it. Or that you believe in the rule of law until someone pays to break it. I think you just pretended to have these as your core values because it was profitable to do so. In reality, you were simply waiting for someone who could meet your price.
Money and power can corrupt people. I have a brother than went from being a Liberal to a NeoCon to a Libertarian. The change occurred when you worked at a high powered securities law firm that did a lot of paperwork behind mergers and acquisitions.
I think you can only corrupt someone who lacks integrity. I don’t buy into the argument that “we all have our price.” I did a lot of M&A work with public companies in my career and routinely encountered huge egos and lots of money changing hands. That, plus the rest of what I saw as everyday life in corporate America, cemented my liberal leanings.
We have had corrupt and lawless attorneys general before: Daugherty under Harding, Nixon's John Mitchell, Alberto Gonzalez. Bondi eclipses them all, and will be remembered as the absolute worst. This is what actual "weaponization" of DOJ looks like.
Trump/Musk/Vance & their minions are all deplorable. Working in tandem, they are frightening. But I believe in the rule of law and the inherent goodness of most of the people in our country. I believe if we all untie we can beat them back and retrieve our Democracy from their greedy clutches.
We cannot overlook these actions!!!