Criminal Justice

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

The Economist asked the other day, “Has America’s Department of Justice been politicised?” (They’re British, you know.)

Politicized? Politicized?

The American Department of Justice has been criminalized.

President Trump has fired two FBI directors who were investigating him, plus two United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York investigating him and his crime pals — and his personal lawyer who pretends to be the Attorney General, and head of Justice, has helped him do it.

And that’s just the start for these men who should be turning in their ill-fitting business suits for much roomier jumpsuits in Trumpian orange.

A Justice Department lawyer who prosecuted convicted felon Roger Stone just told Congress that he resigned from the case because he was told if he did not go easy on Stone as a favor to the President he would be fired. Three other prosecutors on the case also resigned, and a flunky with no knowledge of the case was recruited to sign a downwardly revised sentencing recommendation for the Department.

A second Justice lawyer testified that political appointees frequently started unwarranted investigations, rejected by career lawyers without axes to grind for the President, to target Trump/Barr enemies.

Barr also, in the minds of many, criminally interfered with confessed perjurer Michael Flynn’s case, ordering it dismissed, and, not so long before that, with the House Impeachment and Mueller investigations. Remember those? Russia, you still listening? How about you, Ukraine? China?

Last question: who do you deputize to arrest the criminal, when the criminal is the highest legal officer in the land who, in fact, can and will order you investigated and arrested?