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longtime liberal: Dems Have Abandoned Civil Liberties (link)
Posted on: May 15, 2020 at 19:55:19 CT
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Taibbi is extremely progressive/liberal/left, Democrat supporter. Still is. Former Rolling Stone journalist. Here he is telling the brainwashed Democrat voters why they are dangerous group of third world dictators - the likes of which we've only seen from Hitler-esque monsters in the darkest, most shameful annals of history.
Great read... something tells me, the board leftists will find a reason to completely ignore it and stay brainwashed.
Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties
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The Blue Party’s Trump-era Embrace of Authoritarianism Isn’t Just Wrong, it’s a Fatal Political Mistake
By Matt Taibbi
Emmet G. Sullivan, the judge in the case of former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, is refusing to let William Barr’s Justice Department drop the charge. He’s even thinking of adding more, appointing a retired judge to ask “whether the Court should issue an Order to Show Cause why Mr. Flynn should not be held in criminal contempt for perjury.”
Pundits are cheering. A trio of former law enforcement and judicial officials saluted Sullivan in the Washington Post, chirping, “The Flynn case isn’t over until a judge says it’s over.” Yuppie icon Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and the New Yorker, one of the #Resistance crowd’s favored legal authorities, described Sullivan’s appointment of Judge John Gleeson as “brilliant.” MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said Americans owe Sullivan a “debt of gratitude.”
One had to search far and wide to find a non-conservative legal analyst willing to say the obvious, i.e. that Sullivan’s decision was the kind of thing one would expect from a judge in Belarus. George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley was one of the few willing to say Sullivan’s move could “could create a threat of a judicial charge even when prosecutors agree with defendants.”
Sullivan’s reaction was amplified by a group letter calling for Barr’s resignation signed by ..........
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/democrats-have-abandoned-civil-liberties
{for whole story}
Edited by North co-co champs at 19:56:12 on 05/15/20
Great read... something tells me, the board leftists will find a reason to completely ignore it and stay brainwashed.
Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties
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The Blue Party’s Trump-era Embrace of Authoritarianism Isn’t Just Wrong, it’s a Fatal Political Mistake
By Matt Taibbi
Emmet G. Sullivan, the judge in the case of former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, is refusing to let William Barr’s Justice Department drop the charge. He’s even thinking of adding more, appointing a retired judge to ask “whether the Court should issue an Order to Show Cause why Mr. Flynn should not be held in criminal contempt for perjury.”
Pundits are cheering. A trio of former law enforcement and judicial officials saluted Sullivan in the Washington Post, chirping, “The Flynn case isn’t over until a judge says it’s over.” Yuppie icon Jeffrey Toobin of CNN and the New Yorker, one of the #Resistance crowd’s favored legal authorities, described Sullivan’s appointment of Judge John Gleeson as “brilliant.” MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said Americans owe Sullivan a “debt of gratitude.”
One had to search far and wide to find a non-conservative legal analyst willing to say the obvious, i.e. that Sullivan’s decision was the kind of thing one would expect from a judge in Belarus. George Washington University professor Jonathan Turley was one of the few willing to say Sullivan’s move could “could create a threat of a judicial charge even when prosecutors agree with defendants.”
Sullivan’s reaction was amplified by a group letter calling for Barr’s resignation signed by ..........
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/democrats-have-abandoned-civil-liberties
{for whole story}
Edited by North co-co champs at 19:56:12 on 05/15/20
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