Monday, May 6, 2019

Jail Them In The Capitol Cells

I hope when William Barr doesn't turn over the full Mueller Report and, probably more importantly, the evidence that underlies about an hour from when I started typing this out,  Jerrold Nadler and the non-colluding majority on the House Judiciary Committee start contempt proceedings against him.  If there is someone who richly deserves to face justice, it's a crooked law man and William Barr is the crookedest one who has had that position since at least the Nixon years.  That's certainly not for want of trying, Bush II's felonious AG Roberto Gonzales committed perjury - something which Robert Mueller revealed to congress, if I recall correctly - and Barr's two Trump regime predecessors are criminal scum, too, though their unillegal crimes might not be technically illegal. 

I actually hope that if this obstruction campaign continues Barr and a number of others involved in the cover up of Trump's crimes, Mnuchin, high on that list, might face imprisonment by the House.  I suspect that seeing someone in this criminal regime being brought to justice and jailed other than underlings such as Mueller prosecuted or got to plead would have a very salubrious effect on the resistance to Trumpian fascism.  I think it would do Democrats a world of good. 

The time of laying out a record of attempted accommodation for future judical proceedings is about run out, or at least the patience of those who want equality under the law is.   I would warn the House leadership that I'm hearing a lot of my fellow Democratic news junkies are beginning to tune out in frustration with the snails pace of things.  If Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell have the Republican fascist court in place that they want we'd better find that out sooner than later.  If the Supreme Court and lower courts want to disgrace themselves and discredit the judicial branch, it's better that we know that than merely suspect Trump might be right.  What we do if that is the case may become far clearer in that emergency than it is in this holding pattern.   

Update:  WAIT!  WHAT AM I SAYING?  JAIL THEM IN THE SAME CONDITIONS THE BABIES KIDNAPPED BY HOMELAND WERE HELD IN.  TENTS IN THE DESERT, BABY CAGES WITH MYLAR BLANKETS. 

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