You totally had me with Dunning Keller. I was like, this Gatto person has all the obscure references. I need to go look up what Keller did. Lol! +1 for you.
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I believe that Barr knew 100% about the entire coup plan, took a look at it, and determined it was a half-arsed, lousy plan that did not have a real chance in hell at succeeding, due to the [still] loyalty of the US military to the constitution, and the actual make-up of US loyalists vs traitors in congress and the senate, and once he determined the coup was going to fail, Barr decided he did not want to end up on the wrong end of a hang-mans noose or firing squad. Or at the very least, was leery of ending up in prison for the rest of his life.
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Your read on it rings true. Look, Dec 14th, the day Barr announced his resignation, was the day the electoral college voted. Trump was leaning hard that day to overturn the results, likely asking Barr to do all sorts of illegal stuff. No wonder he left. He was looking at 20 to 30 years for involvement in any extra constitutional activity. He lacked the power to change the situation, but possessed the gray matter to foresee the massive fail that was likely to occur.
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Here’s the asshole who introduced Clark to the loser:
I read an article saying that Barr didn’t want to work for Trump but took the job because it was an opportunity to pursue his belief that the President should have absolute power, using Trump’s time in office to expand presidential powers for the benefit of future presidents.
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One can only assume he had similar calls and schemes in other states but those legislators were too cowardly or ideologically blinkered to make them public
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I prefer the term "court balancing "~
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Stupid question:
As Trump is now out of office, can he be compelled to testify in person
in his trial ?
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… and it looks like he also wanted to use the doj to press the supreme court to overturn the election …
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Trump who?
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I agree. I’d be very interested in his response in the alternative reality where the coup does have the momentum to succeed.
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Not a stupid question. He could have been compelled to testify in person when he was president. But that would have required something other than a kangaroo show trial, unlike what Mitchy ran last January.
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“Violent transfer of power” means that power was seized through violence means. It explicitly does not mean mere assassination as power is normally peacefully transferred to the next in line. Even in the case of Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth did not attempt to seize power or work as an agent of Vice President Johnson. Despite the violent death of the officeholder, the power of the president was peacefully transferred to his successor without violence.
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I think the system seeks parity, so that if one side produces a horrible cretin, they will accuse the other side of having one too. I wonder how common our adversarial judicial system is in the world. A system that finds an outcome favoring one side, rather than finding truth is wacky to me. Same with American politics. We’re pitting two parties against each other with the goal of victory, not good governance.
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