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The Washington Post - Trump takes aggressive moves he resisted before elections
"Following this week’s midterm elections, President Trump ousted his attorney general, seized control of the Russia investigation for a partisan loyalist and suspended the credentials for a journalist he deemed too adversarial.
And that was just the first 24 hours. ..."
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The Washington Post - There is no way this man should be running the Justice Department
An important opinion piece behind a paywall - so extracts are quoted at length
IS MATTHEW G. WHITAKER the legitimate acting attorney general?
From approximately the second President Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and tapped Mr. Whitaker to temporarily exercise the office’s vast authority, legal experts have sparred over whether Mr. Trump can unilaterally elevate someone from a role that does not require Senate confirmation to one that does.
But regardless of whether the promotion is legal, it is very clear that it is unwise. Mr. Whitaker is unfit for the job.
Several prominent legal scholars point out that the Constitution demands that “principal officers” of the United States must undergo Senate confirmation.
A 19th-century Supreme Court case suggests there may be limited room for temporary fill-ins, but Mr. Whitaker’s appointment is hardly so temporary; he could serve for most of the rest of Mr. Trump’s first term.
Even if Mr. Whitaker’s promotion is constitutional, Congress passed a law governing Justice Department succession that also seems to prohibit Mr. Whitaker’s ascent.
The department has a capable, Senate-confirmed deputy attorney general in Rod J. Rosenstein; he should be running the department in the absence of a permanent replacement.
The Senate above all should be offended by the president’s end run around its authority. ...
It took less than 24 hours for material to emerge suggesting that [Whitaker] could not survive even a rudimentary vetting:
- First, there are Mr. Whitaker’s statements criticizing the Russia probe of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. ...
- Then there is Mr. Whitaker’s connection to a defunct patent promotion company that the Federal Trade Commission called “an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.” ...
- Finally, and fundamentally most damning, is Mr. Whitaker’s expressed hostility to Marbury v. Madison, a central case - the central case - in the American constitutional system.
It established an indispensable principle: The courts decide what is and is not constitutional.
Without Marbury, there would be no effective judicial check on the political branches, no matter how egregious their actions.
If the Senate were consulted, it is impossible to imagine Mr. Whitaker getting close to the attorney general’s office. He should not be there now.
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I will not hide any longer,, the left has made us feel as if us black republicans should hide!! but not anymore!! #BlacksForTrump #WalkAway #maga
Trump is a racist, homophobic, transphobic, bigot AND YOU THINK MY BLACK ASS WOULD SUPPORT THAT ROTTING CARROT?? ridiculous. any black person can put on that ugly ass hat and say #MAGA and yall will instantly be up their ass cuz you wanna prove so hard you’re not racist
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The Washington Post - There is no way this man should be running the Justice Department
It took less than 24 hours for material to emerge suggesting that [Whitaker] could not survive even a rudimentary vetting:
- First, there are Mr. Whitaker’s statements criticizing the Russia probe of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. ...
- Then there is Mr. Whitaker’s connection to a defunct patent promotion company that the Federal Trade Commission called “an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars.” ...
- Finally, and fundamentally most damning, is Mr. Whitaker’s expressed hostility to Marbury v. Madison, a central case - the central case - in the American constitutional system. ...
An update on item 2:
Now it turns out that the Miami office of the F.B.I. is conducting a criminal investigation of World Patent Marketing (the defunct patent promotion company).
This would be the same F.B.I. that Whitaker oversees in his new job.
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