Attorney General Bill Barr — may threaten the Republic more than his boss does

© 2020 Peter Free

 

16 September 2020

 

 

Attorney General Bill Barr's lack of American Patriot Principle is increasingly evident

 

Consider the following, substantially dangerous legal argument:

 

 

[T]he Department of Justice moved to replace President Donald Trump’s private legal team to defend the accused rapist in a defamation suit brought by author E. Jean Carroll.

 

Last year, Carroll credibly accused Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.

 

Trump denied the assault, claimed (falsely) to have never met Carroll and — as grounds for why he could not have raped her — said that she wasn’t his “type.”

 

These comments spurred the defamation suit, in which the Justice Department has now attempted to intervene.

 

According to the Justice Department, government lawyers must take over Trump’s defense because he made the allegedly defamatory comments while “acting within the scope of his office as President of the United States.”

 

The U.S. government, rather than accused rapist Trump, would effectively become the defendant in the case.

 

© 2020 Natasha Leonard, Bill Barr Says Insulting a Rape Accuser Was Part of Trump’s Official Duties, The Intercept (09 September 2020)

 

 

In other words

 

AG Barr wants the United States to become a sponsoring party to allegedly past (personal) and possibly future (presidential) criminal acts.

 

No US attorney general from the past would have dreamed of making such a transparently monarchist moral and legal argument in American Federal court.

 

Yet here Bill Barr's staff are, making exactly this claim.

 

Somehow the aftermath of a 1990s allegedly criminal incident has become part of 2020's presidential duties.

 

Trump's reasoning probably goes somewhat like this:

 

 

Yes, I'm President, and my past alleged rapes and suspected widespread graft are all covered by my current presidential immunity to prosecution.

 

This immunity, of course, includes the alleged defamation that I need to use now, so as to defuse the emotional power of Ms. Carroll's — and everyone else's — somewhat believable accusations.

 

Bill, take care of this unhappy stuff for me, will ya?

 

Let's use the federal judiciary to stall Ms. Carroll — and everyone else — until they're dead, or I'm safely somewhere beyond their reach.

 

What good is Emperorship, if I can't use it?

 

 

The moral? — It is good to be King

 

When institutional integrity disappears, nations become tyrant.

 

"Monarchy" Barr disgraces the Concept of American Law, as well as our Founding Fathers.

 

As a result of the Attorney General's professionally dishonorable conduct, the US judiciary is now on trial for its life as a viable Branch of anti-monarchy Government.

 

If the Federal Judiciary acquiesces in this criminal enterprise-protecting legal nonsense, our Republic — in all its quasi-democratic respects — is over.

 

If I were Chief Justice Roberts — or indeed any genuine conservative on the Supreme Bench — I would be sharpening my Adam Henry-gutting legal knife.

 

The porcinely gravitas-simulating Bill Barr needs to depart his official realm with a figurative apple stuffed in his mouth.