Senate Republicans greenlight Trump, AG Barr annihilating America's system of justice

[Zorro]

The rule of law in America is currently dangling by a thread. Yet it seems that only one Senate Republican believes the upper chamber is there to do anything more than conduct performative acts of governance—even when the president of the United States has fired his chief investigator.

With the exception of Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, every Senate Republican asked shrugged off the fact that Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr ousted the man who has been overseeing several investigations into Trump's dealings and inner circle.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn seemed annoyed by questions about the ouster of top prosecutor Geoffrey Berman. "Everything that happens around here creates a tempest in a teapot," Cornyn told CNN when asked about Berman. (Gee, wonder if that has anything to do with the president he voted to acquit.) "I feel like I've got more important things to do," Cornyn added.

Sometimes being routinely asked about your job is such a downer. Cornyn's got a reelection run, folks, the country can just suck it.

Cornyn, like other Senate Republicans, expressed the view that Trump and Barr were well "within their rights" to sack the guy who was running an investigation into Trump's lawyer and fixer, Rudy Giuliani. And no, he wasn't interested in why they fired Berman and even confirmed that he had no intention of asking—because frankly, it would just be a real pain in the butt to do something resembling his job.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/23/1955380/-Senate-Republicans-greenlight-Trump-AG-Barr-annihilating-America-s-system-of-justice

[erronis]

1. Cornyn: "I've got more important things to do"

The senate (under mcconnel's expert misdirection) has not done its job since 2008 - ever since they purposefully became an instrument of anti-democracy.

Raising money/rubles and sending allocations to home states has always been part of their business. But stopping the ability of the duly-elected government to do its job is something new. Almost like they are all on someone else's payroll.