Former DOJ officials warned in a new letter that the “fabric of the nation, the rule of law and the future of the Democracy are at stake in this election.”
For Justice Department employees who had spent weeks contemplating the possibility of two-time federal criminal defendant Donald Trump returning to the presidency, Joe Biden’s decision to drop out and endorse Kamala Harris offered a sense of relief.
Former and current Justice Department employees believe that a future president Harris, a former prosecutor, unlike Trump, would respect the norms that have been in place to ensure DOJ independence in the half-century since Watergate.
Those fears of another Trump term are central to a new letter endorsing Harris, signed by more than 40 former Justice Department officials who served under presidents of both parties. They include former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former deputy attorneys general Sally Yates, David Ogden and Jamie Gorelick, and John McKay, who was appointed as a top federal prosecutor in Washington state during the George W. Bush administration, among others.
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Trump “regularly ignored the rule of law” as president, the former officials wrote, pointing out that one of his first acts was an “unconstitutional Muslim travel ban” and one of his last acts was an attempt “to stay in power by defying election results and the will of the American people.”
Yeah, I think she could win this bitch. Finally, a good fucking candidate.
I’d argue she’s not a good candidate. She’s just not senile or a dumb racist facist…
Jesus Christ American politics is embarrassing…
When she ran in 2020, she was like 4th or 5th in my list.
I think where we are no, there’s no other options logistically, and I am happy with her. But we shouldn’t pretend she was the best candidate.
If Biden never ran for a 2nd term (as should have happened), do you think Harris would have been guaranteed to win?
No one who can actually win/no one democrats would actually endorse.
Kamala is basically just another Joe Biden. Someone to toe the line and keep the status quo. Is she better than Trump? Absofuckinglutely. Am I voting for her? Hell yeah. But she’s just more of the same. And the same has sucked for a long time…
Also if she wins I feel like 4 years later were going to be having this exact same conversation about protecting America from Republican facist while Democrats ignore their constituents while they fight amongst themselves.
I’m sorry. I’m not trying to be one of those ppl who just complain but I’m just so very very tired of our politics and it gets harder and harder to fight off voter apathy…
You’re right. Kamala is about as centrist as you can get with the only thing going for her being the current VP.
No one the could even possibly jump in and be a better candidate, but a two primary without Biden burdening it would have been better to nominate a true Dem candidate.
I have repeatedly heard her voting record is relatively close in line with Bernie’s, who is as about as left as they come here in the US. I haven’t verified that, but if it is true, how can you call her a centrist? Do you have information I lack?
You may point to her being a “cop,” which is a fair enough critique, but centrist is not really what I expected to hear
The “Law and Order” party isn’t going to like this…
I don’t really think any institution within gov should be advocating for or endorsing any candidate.
But it certainly seems the alumnus from many gov jobs have the same opinion.
Fuck TFG and his billionaire brownpant clown brigade.
Where’s Lordy, the architect of Nazi dictatorship?
