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It is the job of a senator to pursue her policy preferences. In fact, it would be a dereliction of duty for her to put policy goals side. By contrast, it is the job of a judge to resist her policy preferences.
There was an important message underneath all the mumbo jumbo, and that is there are foreign actors, principally Russia, also perhaps Iran engaging in interfering in our elections, and the American people despite that need to know that…
What he was trying to do was to contrast the kind of president that we deserve and need in Joe Biden, with the craziness of Donald Trump, the incompetence, the dishonesty, the corruption, the appalling manipulations and lies. And I think…
I just read for something and he said that, you know, unfortunately, when words matter when the President of United States says something, people listen to it.
When words matter when the President of United States says something, people listen to it.
I'd certainly prefer that the Attorney General would announce that the investigation is over and there were no findings of wrongdoing. But that wouldn't support the narrative that the President wants.
The problem I have had is that, unfortunately, so many people, so many political operatives at the Justice Department have been taking the Trump line and doing his bidding. And that is a really corrosive thing.
It's absolutely right. It's totally reprehensible, Ari. And when you're in the federal government, either in the attorney general -- the attorney general, or the president, or the White House, or whatever, you're very conscious of your…
I was never even interviewed by anyone in DOJ about the unmasking. It was a politically motivated probe initiated by William Barr to please Donald Trump.
Trump promised to nominate justices who destroy it. And Trump, of course, four years has tried to destroy it legislatively.
The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the people. The public should not expect courts to do so and courts should not try.
