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Why Impeaching Bill Barr is More Urgent Now Than Ever
 Impeaching Attorney General Bill Barr won't just protect us from a corrupt senior law-enforcement official; it will also strengthen our protection against the dangerous, autocratic tendencies of Donald Trump. Trump famously asked once, "Where is my Roy Cohn?" He has found that person, that corrupt lawyer, in William Barr. As we head toward the November election and January 20, Donald Trump becomes more dangerous by the day. He has learned how to use the levers of power in the White House, and has applied them in increasingly corrupt ways, transferring over 2 trillion dollars of our tax money to himself and his corrupt oligarch friends. But in addition to corrupting the flow of money in our country, Trump has also corrupted our criminal justice system, the last bulwark to protect us against people like him. Bill Barr should certainly be impeached, and then prosecuted, for the very clear crimes he has committed while in office, as well as for his perversion of American standards of justice. But, more important, Bill Barr needs to be impeached as soon as possible to remove from Donald Trump the power to "help his friends and punish his enemies," a power that is the hallmark of a dictator. Impeaching Bill Barr is an essential step to saving our republic and restoring American democracy. -Thom |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Why Impeaching Bill Barr Is More Urgent Now Than Ever
Tweet: " Ultra-Trumpy Trump Judge Neomi Rao-who else?-writes the 2-1 decision ordering the Flynn judge to dismiss the prosecution. She is really just the worst." by Mark Joseph Stern. Tweet: " NeverTrump legal conservatives: "You can oppose Trump and still support Trump's judicial nominees because Leonard Leo selected the finest, most independent legal minds in the nation, who are sure to act as a check on the administration!"" by Mark Joseph Stern. Tweet: " Neomi Rao does not just say "sorry, this is what the law requires." She goes ALL IN on the Trump administration's theory of the case, condemning Judge Sullivan's "unprecedented intrusions on individual liberty" and chastising him for daring to "prob[e] the government's motives."" by Mark Joseph Stern. Tweet: " I don't see why the DC Circuit can't take this case en banc to reverse Rao, but I need a civil procedure person to tell me if there are different en banc rules for mandamus petitions." by Mark Joseph Stern. Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""
Who's Right About Freedom...Republicans? OR, Americans?
Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. " Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", 27 June 1936 acceptance speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt. " An old English judge once said: "Necessitous men are not free men.""
Hour Two: What Happens When Democracy Is Globalized?- Economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs University Professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University / Director-United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and has been advisor to three UN secretaries-general. He is a New York Times best-selling author, and his Columbia University Press books include The Age of Sustainable Development (2015), Building the New American Economy (2017), and A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism. His latest: The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions 
Quote: " The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people." - James Madison.
Book: " Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, 1651. " And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Article: " Declaration of Independence". " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
Hour Three: Why Are We Ignoring Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water?- Danielle Melgar, Toxics Program Advocate - U.S. PIRG
Tweet: " Mitch McConnell has refused to hold vote on restoring Voting Rights Act for 200 days but Senate GOP just confirmed anti-voting rights extremist Cory Wilson of Mississippi to 5th Circuit as Trump's 200th federal judge" by Ari Berman. Video: .
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