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It also comes down to how stupid and LOUD Trump is. You'd be putting your life in Trump's hands with a plan like this and all of his cronies, minus true believes like Stephen Miller, know that is a death sentence essentially.
Anything the new AG tries yt implement will be ignored/drug out til Jan 20th. Basically the government moves to slow to do any real damage in 2 months.
100% and the replacement will say the election was stolen and will use the justice department resources to help Trump's fake legal battle.
Can that actually happen? Do you know if that can actually happen or are you making assumptions based on how things work in completely different cabinet roles?
Can you look up for me the process of appointing an "Acting" Attorney General, what their actual limitations are? Cann you look up the AG line of succession (that is clearly legislated)?
I just want to know where these fears come from.
It comes from the fact that Trump has done whatever he wants and nobody has stopped him.
Remember when Sessions was replaced by "evil hot tub Mr. Clean"? Trump can't just strong arm his way out of this.
Yes. Trump always had the power to fire Mueller. Who would a special prosecutor even go after? Trump's legal team can't seem to decide who the villain is in this fantasy scenario they've constructed. There have been no allegations aimed at the incoming admin, so any potential crimes could be handled by AGs from all 50 states easily.
Iirc these questions came up when Trump appointed Whitaker. I don't have time to read the whole thing, but this might be useful.
Matthew Whitaker's Appointment as Acting Attorney General: Three Lingering Questions
Is Whitaker’s appointment constitutional? Does the president have authority in this case to make an appointment under the FVRA? Does Whitaker have any recusal obligations related to the special counsel’s investigation?
The quick answer is I think he'd be the full Attorney General as far as legal powers go, but as an unconfirmed appointment in a lame duck session when the other party is taking over, anyone the AG could possibly order around is definitely going to be taking notes and being extra careful. Even Barr's already run into that with the guy overseeing election security changing jobs when Barr originally ordered an investigation.
Nope. He ain't welcome. This authoritarian religious zealot was honestly more dangerous than Trump because he was competent
LoL no, he will quit and find himself a nice job at Fox where he can further talk bullshit to ruin peoples lives.
Imagine what unscrupulous shit Trump was asking for that even that piece of shit Barr wouldn't go along with it.
Let's give the man some credit. He was shitty enough to last longer than most people.
Barr was willing to do anything to keep Trump in power, but he's not an idiot. He knows the ride is over now, so he's trying to save whatever reputation he thinks he has left.
Had Trump won, or if the election was actually close, who knows what crazy shit he would've been doing for Trump.
God, I hope this is how it goes. These people are scum and they deserve the worst.
I remember the media firing on all cylinders to assuage our fears and we fell for it like suckers. Hard to believe there could be a worse AG than Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, but here we are.
I keep saying that there are no good conservatives, or people on the right. That's the approach Democrats continue to fail at understanding. They simply don't care enough.
If this were 12 months ago I would have smiled. But with Trump still in power until 20th January, I'd prefer he stays just so we can avoid even more chaos before Trump is out. The last thing we need is an even bigger tool placed in that position to throw a hail mary.
"Joe Biden is drunk with power! There is a special investigating going on about the president and he wants to fire the investigators! Even Trump didn't fire Mueller." ...he let Barr do it.
