Last Friday, Attorney General William Barr in effect said, "Not so fast!" In a speech in Washington to the Federalist Society, second only to the National Rifle Association as the organization most demonized by Democrats, Barr dug into the very foundation of the legitimacy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff claim regarding scrutinizing one-on-one conversations between a U.S. president and a foreign head of state.
According to Barr, "This prejudice is wrong-headed and atavistic." Centuries ago, as Barr pointed out, "You started out with a king who holds all the cards; he holds all the power, including legislative and judicial." And then "Legislative power gradually, over hundreds of years, reigned in the king, and extracted and established its own powers."
The Framers "Created an office that was already the ideal Whig executive. It already had built into it the limitations that Whig doctrine aspired to. It did not have the power to tax and spend; it was constrained by habeas corpus and by due process in enforcing the law against members of the body politic; it was elected for a limited term of office; and it was elected by the nation as whole. That is a remarkable democratic institution - the only figure elected by the nation as a whole."
"Now, 'Resistance' is the language used to describe insurgency against rule imposed by an occupying military power. It obviously connotes that the government is not legitimate."
Apropos the Zelensky phone call, Barr notes that "We all understand that confidential communications and a private, internal deliberative process are essential for all of our branches of government to properly function there is no FOIA for Congress or the courts. Yet Congress has happily created a regime that allows the public to seek whatever documents it wants from the executive branch at the same time that individual congressional committees spend their days trying to publicize the executive's internal decisional process."
As Barr concludes, "That process cannot function properly if it is public in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of 'Resistance' against this administration, it is the left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law."
Pelosi claimed to CBS on Sunday that "What the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did." Now Trump's attorney general has deployed the Constitution itself as a weapon against such politically motivated exaggerations.
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/11/20/barrs-powerful-weapon-against-impeachment-the-founding-fathers/
According to Barr, "This prejudice is wrong-headed and atavistic." Centuries ago, as Barr pointed out, "You started out with a king who holds all the cards; he holds all the power, including legislative and judicial." And then "Legislative power gradually, over hundreds of years, reigned in the king, and extracted and established its own powers."
The Framers "Created an office that was already the ideal Whig executive. It already had built into it the limitations that Whig doctrine aspired to. It did not have the power to tax and spend; it was constrained by habeas corpus and by due process in enforcing the law against members of the body politic; it was elected for a limited term of office; and it was elected by the nation as whole. That is a remarkable democratic institution - the only figure elected by the nation as a whole."
"Now, 'Resistance' is the language used to describe insurgency against rule imposed by an occupying military power. It obviously connotes that the government is not legitimate."
Apropos the Zelensky phone call, Barr notes that "We all understand that confidential communications and a private, internal deliberative process are essential for all of our branches of government to properly function there is no FOIA for Congress or the courts. Yet Congress has happily created a regime that allows the public to seek whatever documents it wants from the executive branch at the same time that individual congressional committees spend their days trying to publicize the executive's internal decisional process."
As Barr concludes, "That process cannot function properly if it is public in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of 'Resistance' against this administration, it is the left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law."
Pelosi claimed to CBS on Sunday that "What the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did." Now Trump's attorney general has deployed the Constitution itself as a weapon against such politically motivated exaggerations.
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/11/20/barrs-powerful-weapon-against-impeachment-the-founding-fathers/
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