Billy Barr Disgraces Justice Every Day

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Laurence Tribe
@tribelaw

The sudden resignation of John Durham’s top deputy Nora Dannehy is a strong sign that Bill Barr has turned Durham into a tool of the corrupt Trump project of smearing Biden and clearing Trump in October. These crooks aren’t even subtle.

12:35 PM · Sep 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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Fact-checking Billy Barr: Is your vote no longer secret with mail-in ballots?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/polit...eck/index.html

"There's no more secret vote, there's no secret vote," Barr said. "Your name is associated with a particular ballot. The government and the people involved can find out and know how you voted. And it opens up the door to coercion."

Facts First: Elections experts say Barr is wrongly suggesting that mail-in ballots somehow violate people's privacy and that he is ignoring safeguards that are in place to ensure the security of people's ballots when they vote by mail.

Rick Hasen, a University of California-Irvine, professor and one of the nation's top experts in election law, told CNN, "There is no validity to this claim and it shows once again that either AG Barr has not done even a rudimentary amount of research into how mail-in balloting actually works or he's deliberately obfuscating."


Of Barr's claim that "governments and the people involved" can find out how someone voted, Charles Stewart, a political science professor at MIT, said "that's just incorrect, if people follow the law."

As he has done on many previous occasions, Barr is questioning the validity of mail-in balloting, even though millions of Americans, including Barr, have used this method to vote. Hasen told CNN that while "absentee ballot fraud happens at relatively higher rates than other kinds of election fraud," that overall rate is still "quite low."

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"if people follow the law."

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Originally Posted by JJIII

"if people follow the law."

The regular election institutions have a track record of always following the law in the past. Its the Trump-led movement that seems willing to break laws and norms at will.

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Seattle mayor says Billy Barr's suggestions to charge her are 'chilling'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/polit...arr/index.html

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Wednesday said a report that Attorney General William Barr suggested prosecutors consider filing charges against her is "chilling and the latest abuse of power from the Trump administration."

Barr, The New York Times reported, asked prosecutors in the Justice Department's civil rights division to investigate if they could charge Durkan as a result of protests this summer, when some protesters established a police-free zone in downtown Seattle.

"The Department of Justice cannot become a political weapon operated at the behest of the President to target those who have spoken out against this administration's actions," Durkan, a former US attorney, said in a statement. "That is an act of tyranny, not of democracy."

"Ultimately, this is not a story about me. It is about the how this President and his Attorney General are willing to subvert the law and use the Department of Justice for political purposes," she added. "It is particularly egregious to try to use the civil rights laws to investigate, intimidate, or deter those that are fighting for civil rights in our country."

Just imagine the outrage from Reichwing media had the DOJ proposed such a thing during the Obama administration.

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Billy Barr calls coronavirus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ since slavery
The attorney general also compared career DOJ prosecutors to preschoolers and defended his intervention in high-profile cases.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...slavery-416776

He's already gone full insane. Just imagine what he'll do when the Repubes lose the election.

IF we can force these lunatics out, Barr will need to be tried and convicted of crimes against humanity, at the very least.

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'...since slavery.' Hadn't heard that bit. Talk about stoking up the mob to feel grievance and outrage. The Republican demagoguery is everything they claim the BLM agenda is.

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Billy Barr brands NYC an ‘anarchist jurisdiction,’ targets federal funds

https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/nyc-br...nding-doj/amp/

Shameless. Demagoguery at its worst. Epic legal battles to come...

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Dana Gould
@danagould

Many Trump supporters are defending the Republican Supreme Court hypocrisy with the dismissive, “Tough. It’s politics. That’s how the game is played.”

Good.

So you’ll understand next week when the House impeaches Bill Barr to tie up the Senate until after the election.

11:49 AM · Sep 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone