Who would have thought there would be so much material on a Monday morning?
Let's start with Da Caller, which posts ‘It Was All Bulls–t’: Bill Barr Details His Thoughts On Trump’s Election
Claims. Rebecca Downs at Town Hall, Excerpt Published in The Atlantic Provides Insight into Barr's Take on
Election Fraud Claims: 'All Bulls**t'.
'Bonchie' at Red State,
Bill Barr Leaves No Doubt After Profanity-Laced Exit From Trump Orbit
This is obviously not going to sit well with a lot of Republicans nor is this
going to give them confidence that Barr did everything he could to root out
FBI and DOJ corruption while serving in his position as attorney general.
After all, the much-ballyhooed Durham investigation continues to go absolutely
nowhere while people that allegedly committed crimes spend their time on CNN
blasting out political partisanship (i.e.
Andrew McCabe).
Sundance at CTH,
Predictably Bondo Barr Covers The Rot
There is a specific irony of Bill Barr using Wayne County, Michigan, as “no
evidence” of ballot fraud while simultaneously admitting no other area other
than Wayne county has voting precincts that do not count ballots. Only in
Wayne county do the 662 precincts deliver ballots to a central counting
facility. The Wayne County process itself is designed specifically to make
ballot fraud easier…. The former AG says move along, move along, nothing to
see here… “that’s what they do.”
The timing of this article release
to coincide with the DOJ challenging election reforms in Georgia, combined
with the Arizona audit finishing up their initial hand recount and
verification of ballots, does not seem coincidental.
Mediaite is upset that
Trump Attacks ‘RINO’ Bill Barr Over ‘Bullsh*t’ Election Fraud Claims: ‘A
Disappointment in Every Sense of the Word’. Leah Barkoukis at Town Hall, Trump Responds to Barr's Take on Election Fraud Allegations in Brutal
Statement
My own feelings about Barr are complex. I believe he volunteered for the AG
position because he saw how deeply politicized the DOJ had become. I believe
he tried to reform it, but failed; the rot is too deep for one man to clean up
in a few months. Regarding the possibility of election fraud; he presumably
told his "underlings," who remained "deep staters to look into it. They
probably scoffed and told him it was all on the up and up. And then took jobs
with the CNC or CNN.
Regarding how
Biden’s DOJ Sues Georgia Over Voting Law (Wa Free Bee). Mike La Chance at LI posits DOJ Lawsuit Against Georgia Over Voting Law May Backfire
George Washington University Law Professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan
Turley sat down with “Fox & Friends” Saturday to analyze the DOJ
lawsuit.
“I’m highly skeptical and I think they may ultimately
regret this move. It could indeed clarify this issue in a way the Biden
administration does not want,” Turley said.
Turley raised questions
over the merit of the lawsuit citing similarities between Georgia and other
states such as Delaware. “But, this is a very dubious case in my view. Because
the Georgia law has great overlap with other states like Delaware” he said.
Turley
also mentioned the popularity of requiring identification when going to the
polls to vote, a key component of the Georgia voting law. “Voter
identification as an example is extremely popular with voters And you now see
a lot of democratic members beginning to say really, ‘we are not questioning
that anymore.’” he added.
Scott Powell at Am Think thinks (no, not yet) Election Integrity is The Firewall That Keeps America Free. Human Events declares
‘VICTORY’ as Judge Allows Part of Fulton County Election Lawsuit to
Proceed. Matt Margolis at PJ Media, The Maricopa County Audit Completed Paper Ballot Examination. Here's What
Happens Next "If you’re expecting to hear the finding any time soon, you’ll have to
be patient. According to Ken Bennett, the Arizona Senate liaison, we can
expect to learn the findings of the audit as early as the end of July or as
late as Labor Day." According to Gateway Pundit, BREAKING UPDATE: HISTORY MADE AS FINAL ARIZONA BALLOT INSPECTIONS COMPLETED
– Huge Preliminary Report Expected Monday When True Number of Ballot Totals
Announced. OK, it Monday. Let's here it.
On the political prosecution of Rudy Guiliani, Thomas Farnnan at TNP
analyses The Persecution Of Rudy Giuliani. Better know legal scholars are also concerned. Jonathon Turley on Da
Hill calls it Politics by other means? Giuliani suspension should worry all lawyers
The
33-page opinion
is damning and embarrassing; in all likelihood, it will result in Giuliani’s
eventual disbarment. It also is deeply concerning in its heavy reliance on
Giuliani’s statements out of court. While lawyers have been disciplined for
out-of-court statements in some cases, this suspension seems primarily a
judgment on Giuliani’s public advocacy. The court states that when he uses
“his large megaphone, the harm is magnified. ... One only has to look at the
ongoing present public discord over the 2020 election, which erupted into
violence, insurrection and death on January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, to
understand the extent of the damage that can be done when the public is misled
by false information about the elections. The AGC [Attorney Grievance
Committee] contends that respondent's misconduct directly inflamed tensions
that bubbled over into the events of January 6, 2021 in this nation's
Capitol.”
Such rhetoric leaves the impression that the
investigators and the court itself were eager to impose judgment on Giuliani
for the Capitol riot and other unrest through a bar action. In an actual case
for incitement, such a causal connection would be rejected by any court as a
violation of free speech. Many lawyers can be accused of fanning unrest or
even violence, in cities ranging from Washington, D.C., to Portland, Ore.,
through their declarations on subjects ranging from police shootings to
election fraud.
Likewise, Democratic members of Congress, attorneys
representing Democratic campaigns and lawyers serving as legal analysts on
television have challenged presidential elections regularly and
unsuccessfully, including challenges made at the certification of the votes
before Congress. Many refused to recognize the legitimacy of Trump's
presidency following the 2016 election and made elaborately argued but
ultimately false claims alleging, among other things, collusion between the
Trump campaign and Russia. This included lawyers who were
accused of lying to the public, the media
and even Congress
in major controversies. Yet there was no cry to disbar the lawyers and members
of Congress behind those claims or challenges.
At Breitbart, Alan Dershowitz weighs in
Giuliani Law License Suspension: Equal Justice for All ‘Mortally
Wounded’
Dershowitz warned of the “danger” of allowing Giuliani to be disbarred
“without a hearing.” He argued that equal justice for all is now “mortally
wounded.”
“I taught legal ethics for, I don’t know, 35 years at
Harvard Law school. I think of myself as a leading expert on legal ethics.
I’ve never ever seen a case where a lawyer was essentially disbarred … without
a hearing,” Dershowitz outlined. “I mean, the most basic concept of due
process is you don’t deprive somebody of his living, of his freedom, of his
ability to work without a hearing. And then the criteria under which they
suspended his law license is so vague. It says in the course of representing a
client, a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of fact or law to
a third person. In other words, if he goes on your show, or he goes on my
podcast, or he goes on Fox or anywhere else, and he makes a statement which
turns out to be false, and he had reason to believe it was false, he could be
disbarred. Do you know how many lawyers we’d have left if we applied that
standard across the board? … We have case after case after case where
prosecutors, defense attorneys, lawyers of every kind, have made statements …
which turn out to be untrue, and they’re never disbarred. And certainly not
without a hearing. And so, this is a first. … The atmosphere is such today
that if you defended President Trump in any way, they’re out to get you. And
they’re certainly out to get Rudy Giuliani.”
“The idea of holding
lawyers to this standard of truth-telling when they’re on television is a
whole new ballgame. It will chill free speech. It will chill advocacy,” he
added.
Host John Catsimatidis asked if the words “equal justice for
all” are dead.
“I think they are mortally wounded,” Dershowitz
replied. “I don’t think we’re seeing equal justice for all. I think we’re
seeing selective justice. … When a prosecutor runs for office, like the
attorney general of New York ran for office on the promise that she will get
Donald Trump, is that equal justice? Or is that show me the man, and I’ll find
you the crime?”
We have now entered an era when the winners of elections take the losers to
trial and jail if possible, and destroy their careers. It is truly a dark era
for justice. Comparisons to banana republics are not out of line. The Western
Journal rerecounts how the
FBI Ruins Innocent Man's Life After Leftist Neighbors Rat on Him for Being
a Trump Supporter. Eric Utter at Am Think,
Grandma charged with ‘parading’ at the Capitol told to denounce her
whiteness. At Am Great Max Morton explains
How I Got Classified as an Anti-Government Domestic Extremist. Probably me, too.
So, let’s unpack this “anti-government domestic extremist” business. An
integral part of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism is an
intelligence community
assessment
published in March. Having spent some time in the intelligence community, I
was puzzled as to how agencies with the mission of foreign intelligence
collection—and which are statutorily and explicitly restricted from conducting
domestic intelligence operations—are now writing Intelligence Community
Assessments on U.S. citizens residing on U.S. soil. Notwithstanding the
troubling legal aspects, the assessment also lacked evidence to back up its
broad assertions that America’s greatest threat comes from domestic
extremists.
The strategy document claims to focus on unlawful
violence from domestic extremists that pose a threat to public safety. The
reality is there isn’t that much politically motivated domestic extremist
violence happening in United States. Sure, there are countless
FBI-manufactured plots and Homeland Security fever dreams of internet chatter
to scare the public. But if one excludes Black Lives Matter and Antifa, actual
political violence incidents, in a country of 330 million people, is a
statistical anomaly. The extremely rare occurrences—the report mentions six
over a 26-year period (including a Black Lives Matter activist misidentified
as an anti-government extremist—does not make a domestic terrorism
pandemic.
Since our national security warriors need a domestic
enemy, they have decided to focus on noncriminal (or, at best, pre-criminal)
thoughts and intentions of that enemy. In other words, the national security
apparatus plans to decide
who will commit violence
in the future, and then act against those individuals or groups to “disrupt”
their plans.
Julie Kelly at Am Great notes how that "domestic extremist" Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for Release of January 6 Surveillance
Footage
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sent a letter to top government
officials seeking answers about the January 6 investigation and conditions in
a D.C. jail specifically used to house Capitol defendants. Greene requests the
release of at least 14,000 hours of surveillance footage captured by USCP
security system on January 6 as well as the identity of the officer who shot
and killed Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female veteran Trump supporter. “It is
abundantly clear that there is a two-track justice system in the United
States,” Greene wrote. Her letter can be found below . . .
Nick Arama at Red State Reports
Emails Show Biden Team Pressured Facebook to Censor the Trump Campaign. And, of course, they did. A giant in-kind campaign contribution. At
TNP Raheem Ksaam an Natalie Winters catch some hypocrisy from
Pamela Karlan, The Ex-Zuckerberg Apparatchik Now Leading Biden’s Anti-Audit
Push – Once Said Corporate-Backed Elections ‘Undermine Democracy’. It's always different when the other side does it.
