Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 days agoAs much as I personally would have liked it, I cannot support making the justice department nakedly partisan/political. It’s horrifying that trump has tried to do so and I’m relieved the guardrails are still (basically) holding.
It’s hard to be the good side. Like how the movie villain gets to throw babies for the hero to rescue (God, Hard Boiled is so good) but we don’t win by becoming the bad guys ourselves.
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Failing to prosecute a known criminal out of a fear of appearing nakedly partisan/political is, as it turns out, as bad as corrupting the justice dept to make it nakedly partisan/political.
Biden should have had an AG who went after criminals regardless of the political consequences.
mrdown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If trump went to jail, it would mean every alive presidents could be persecuted including Biden do it will never happen
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Firing the AG for not prosecuting the cases you want prosecuted, IS nakedly political.
The DOJ’s independence is one of the strongest guardrails protecting American democracy and why so many decent people have resigned rather than submit.
Look at trials in Russia (about which there are some amazing albeit depressing documentaries) to see where a coopted justice department ends up.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, your so called guardrails were never anything more than a gentleman’s agreement, that much is plainly obvious.
The simple fact is Garland’s DoJ completely failed to provide timely justice for the citizens of the USA. Full fucking stop.
MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Those same guardrails have repeatedly stopped trump this term.
Just because things didn’t happen as you wish they did does not mean they failed, full fucking stop.
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Agreed. The problem was the appointment.