The era of the independent DOJ is over, aided and abetted by the media that covered Biden's strenuous efforts to work within it as more scandalous than Trump's promises to destroy it. - ThreadSky

mtsw.bsky.social • 42 days ago

The era of the independent DOJ is over, aided and abetted by the media that covered Biden's strenuous efforts to work within it as more scandalous than Trump's promises to destroy it.

Reposted from southpaw

The White House ordering DOJ to drop pending prosecutions is a breach of the department’s traditional independence that would be an earthshaking scandal under ordinary circumstances.

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waldo42.bsky.social•41 days ago

Not helpful at all were 4 years of a useless AG who used the DOJ's independence as a vehicle to essentially kill itself.

bonniehonig.bsky.social•41 days ago

Very well put

janusroberts.bsky.social•41 days ago

Mission Accomplished!

martyolliff.bsky.social•41 days ago

This is one of the things Chuck Schumer seeks bipartisanship for.

grumdholt.bsky.social•41 days ago

Trump's 2 terms being non consecutive means Trump's political importance is 4 years longer than most 2 Presidents and there's going to be a generation of young voters for whom Trump dominated their experience of how a President acts.
What's Presidential to them won't be the same as for older voters.

travisatkins.bsky.social•41 days ago

yeah, but it also means this:

figgityfigs.bsky.social•41 days ago

Don’t forget credulous nominal progressive journalists that treated Hunter’s pardon as exactly equivalent to Trump promising to weaponize the department against his enemies.

fredthewonderdog.bsky.social•41 days ago

DOJ tradition is even less meaningful than extreme court precedent to our authoritarians.

moodybkues1973.bsky.social•41 days ago

They all obey and bow down to the king. Off with their heads if they don’t.

loki1001.bsky.social•42 days ago

I hope this allows the next Democratic President to go completely hog wild on the entire Republican Party. But let's be real here, they will look forward, not back.

phasebinary.bsky.social•42 days ago

americans should resent the current administration so much that we redo the Red Scare (but this time it's a different Red)

jjo42069.bsky.social•42 days ago

It will be a time for healing which is why the next Dem president will choose Tom Cotton as AG

daphnelawless.com•42 days ago

I suppose the question is whether what comes next is a situation where one party goes "hog wild" on its opponents once it's in power, or whether we actually make justice non-partisan again

celticdragon1.bsky.social•42 days ago

At least destroy the Dem tradition of putting Republicans in at DOJ and the FBI

nilo.bsky.social•42 days ago

I don’t think Dems nominate Republican AGs. Just republican FBI directors. (Most notably bob mueller)

celticdragon1.bsky.social•42 days ago

The deputy DOJ ppl usually seem to be Republican but I may be misremembering

nilo.bsky.social•42 days ago

Not really.

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