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Justice Department norms are under siege.

On Tuesday, four career prosecutors quit a case after Attorney General William Barr intervened to demand a lighter sentence for Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump. Then, on Friday, The New York Times reported that, early this month, Barr quietly "installed a phalanx of outside lawyers to re-examine national security cases with the possibility of overruling career prosecutors." The cases include that of Michael Flynn, another Trump associate whose prosecution the president has long criticized.

Newsweek asked legal historian Jed Shugerman, an expert on the Justice Department, to put these controversies in historical context. We also asked him about four Supreme Court cases being argued next month that could actually further beef up presidential power.

In this interview, Shugerman faults Barr for refusing to use special counsels, and calls for structural reforms to ensure greater Justice Department independence in the future.

Laws and government regulations that unduly restrict individual freedom and choice are themselves the essence of authoritarian government.

Conversely leaders with characters perceived to be authoritarian, who propose and enact laws that enhance individual freedom and reduce the intrusiveness of government into the lives of its citizens, are hardly authoritarian in any political sense.

They are when they brook no opposition, use their power vindictively, and work assiduously to exacerbate social division for political gain.

wrong. as the test firing video I have posted several times proves, magazine size is not the determining factor, since a magazine change only takes around two seconds or a bit less, it's perfectly possible to kill or wound thirty people with 6 shot magazines in less than thirty seconds. This scales up to killing or wounding a hundred people in about a minute and a half with even small magazines, let alone a hundred round magazine.

It's the deadly efficiency of the gun that's the problem.

Justice Department norms are under siege.

I wish it could be accomplished in just 4 years. The ways in which he has gotten rid of legislation and packed the courts, it might be decades before a return to where we were and should be.

I don't believe all Republicans are that stupid, I think they are worse than stupid. They don't believe in Trump, they accept Trump and accept everything he does and says.

What that means for future presidents I haven't a clue. Horrible precedents are being set every day by both the President and his Republican enablers.

Just use some common sense and put them in check.

Stephen Miller Brought White Supremacy Into Our Immigration Policy.

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You are aware of the absurdity of your statement?

Lincoln was a sad sack Republican! No Democrat (self respecting or not) would want to live in a Lincoln type setting.

Nobody is attempting to violate or remove your civil liberties.

Just use some common sense and put them in check.

You and fascism share the same dislike for civil liberties.

I assume you mean you and Ollie.