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November 18, 2019
Barr and the GOP push for an all powerful president
Heath Digby Parton, Salon -One aspect of [the] earlier conservative movement has
continued to chug along with its long-term project to transform the U.S.
into an undemocratic, quasi-authoritarian plutocracy. That would be the
group of far-right lawyers who started the Federalist Society, with the
goal of packing the judiciary with true believers, along with a certain group
of Reagan-era legal wunderkinds who came to believe that the GOP could
dominate the presidency for decades to come. They developed the theory
of the "unitary executive," originally advanced by Reagan's odious
attorney general Ed Meese ( recently awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom) which holds that massive, unaccountable power is vested in the
president of the United States.
Attorney General William Barr was one of those lawyers ... (In a nutshell,
Barr agrees with former President Richard Nixon, who said, "If the
president does it, it's not illegal.")
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Perhaps Barr should read the Constitution !!!! The idea of a "unitary executive" sounds like another word for a DICTATOR. And, it looks much like we are on the road to just that outcome.
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