The Christianist takeover of the DoJ
The takeover described below is but one aspect of the Bush Republicans’ subversion of American democracy–that is to say, US elections, which, since 2000, have been largely rigged by Christianist outfits and/or activists like Premier/Diebold and ES&S; Mike Connell’s GovTech Solutions as well as sister companies SmartTech and Triad; Katherine Harris, Ken Blackwell and Arizona’s Jan Brewer; and many more.
As a democratic republic, the United States will be kaput forever if we don’t look into this crusade in depth, and without flinching.
MCM
Hi! I’m an Evangelical With the U.S. Department of Justice, and I’m Here to Lie to You
by William L. Anderson
You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
~ John 8:44 (New American Bible)
As one who has written continuously about federal criminal law and prosecutorial abuse, I rarely find myself surprised by anything that the minions of the misnamed U.S. Department of Justice do or say. The DOJ is populated with people for whom truth has taken a permanent vacation, and I doubt seriously that the situation will change just because there is a new attorney general.
However, a recent article about the overturning of a criminal conviction in federal court has managed to surprise me, if only to be amazed at the sheer hubris by DOJ personnel. Indeed, at a federal appeals court hearing, a DOJ official openly admitted that she and her colleagues presented a false case – and clearly was proud of it. Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal writes about the overturning of a conviction of a former CEO:
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