Summary

Former federal prosecutor Sara Levine, fired by Trump, warned on 60 Minutes that the Justice Department is “under attack.”

Levine, who prosecuted January 6 rioters, said she was fired for upholding the law.

Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump’s pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump’s agenda may go unpunished.

These actions undermine the rule of law and discouraging accountability for political violence.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    In no universe would a Democrat President even be allowed to joke about the things that Trump is doing in plain sight.

    How long are you guys going to wait until doing something?

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      8 hours ago

      Remember when Barack Obama wore a tan suit? Remember when he ordered a hamburger with spicy mustard?

      If he had ignored federal judges’ orders, the entire staff of Fox News would have had a stroke.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s pretty wild when you think about government “scandals”.

        Democrat and Liberal “scandals” are often trivial shit that would only work in tabloid magazines (blow jobs, tan coloured suites, the fact that they are a woman or black, what’s on the laptop of their kid, etc.)

        Meanwhile, Conservative and Republican scandals are more like treason, deals resulting in mass destruction of the environment, wars, threats to the free press, the stripping of civil liberties, institutionalized oppression against various minority groups (and women), felonies, rape or child molestation.

        breathes

        Publically supporting dictators, publically supporting Nazis, firing of staff designed to protect the country from government oversight or corruption, etc…

        What the fuck happened in the world for both sides to receive equal outrage?

    • the_q@lemm.ee
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      9 hours ago

      We won’t do a thing beyond ball-less protests because we’re either too afraid of the repercussions, too lazy to give up any sort of comfort or too in denial about the severity of what’s happening. No one views themselves as complacent, but there are complacent people out there.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      I’m sure if they just occupied the right sidewalk that oligarchs never walk on, or write just the right sensational slogan on a picket sign, that’ll be enough to fix things. Nothing wrong with attempting to try, but it might actually do something if they occupied, i don’t maybe gated communities for millionaires/billionaires. Outside just one of their mansions, just one. Imagine if BLM or Occupy could happen at a billionaires mansion, even if they weren’t home.