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SAN DIEGO−The New York City Bar Association has asked the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to investigate Attorney General William Barr’s intervention on behalf of Roger Stone fearing that it “threatens public confidence in the fair and impartial administration of justice.”
The charges barraging Barr might lead the Association to disbar Barr.
That would bar Barr from practicing law.
The Association contends that it appears Barr is serving as the barrister of the President and not the nation eroding the barrier that should exist between the Department of Justice and the Office of the President.
Supporters of Trump believe that Barr doesn’t deserve these barbs just because he attempted to bargain with a judge over the sentencing of Roger Stone.
Barr claims the President did not bare his political teeth to pressure him to lighten Stone’s punishment.
Yet a Trump tweet circumstantially suggests the President barged into this case to influence Barr to bar the sentence proposed by the prosecuting attorneys from being imposed by the judge. This certainly would lower the sentencing bar for the crimes Stone was found guilty of committing.
The favoritism exhibited by Barr, Trump, and his base and the criticism of it by Democrats by the rank and file lawyers in the Department of Justice are bound to spark many barroom brawls.
From the perspective of legal evenhandedness, this whole thing makes me want to barf or to take barbiturates so I can sleep through the remainder of Trump’s term.
Will posterity coin a new term for the manipulation of the legal system to favor defendants close to those in authority? My recommendation is barbarism.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com. San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.
Why wasn’t President Obama chastised for speaking up when his professor friend was arrested? Or when he unnecessarily took such a long hard stand in Trayvon’s case but ignored so many similar cases? This BS involving Barr is borderline insanity now. The hatred for President Trump can obviously continue – but the vendetta and obsession with making his administration falter or fail should NOT continue.