He received breaks that are, in my experience, unheard of - and all the more so for a defendant in his circumstances. The decision to lower the recommendation was reached by others in the department as well -” “What I saw was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from every other defendant. In a highly publicized and politically fraught case, it was not only proper but also advisable for the attorney general to assure that the government sentencing recommendations not promote that unworthy end. It takes an experienced lawyer and leader to manage such a department effectively, and I believe, without reservation, that William Barr is that kind of a leader and that this country is fortunate that he leads one of the most important government departments. It handles matters as diverse as antitrust and anti-terrorism. Its components and programs have reach across the country and across the world. Consider his apparent role in overseeing law enforcement action on June 1 to deny the right of peaceful protest in Lafayette Park.” “The department needs capable, experienced and even-handed leadership. Bill Barr is going to get to the truth.” “- And to an ever greater and quite shocking extent this spring, Barr has used the great powers of the Department of Justice to advance the president’s narrow political interests and gravely undermine constitutional rights and the functioning of our democracy. You guys can continue to play your political games. That’s why the work Bill Barr is doing is important. Emmet Flood’s statement a little over a year ago, where he said this: We would all do well to remember, if they can do it to a president, they can lie to a FISA court to get a warrant to to go after a president, to go after a major party’s political campaign - if they can do it to a president, imagine what they can do to you or I, imagine what they can do to the folks we get the privilege of representing back home. And we have said this before, and I’ll say it in closing. Bill Barr is doing the Lord’s work trying to clean it up so that it doesn’t happen again. The cancer that we must root out is his decision to place the president’s interests above the interests of the American people.” “The politics was in the previous administration. Barr’s use of the Department of Justice as a weapon to serve the president’s petty private interests. Barr’s practice of using the department to shield the president and his allies goes back to the beginning of his tenure at the D.O.J. The president’s enemies, real and imagined, are targeted for extra scrutiny, and the needs of the American people and the needs of justice are generally ignored. Barr’s actions make clear that in his Department of Justice, the president’s allies get special treatment.
Barr, one of political appointees intervening in law enforcement to advance the interests of both Mr. Officials Deliver Stinging Testimony Claiming Politicization Under Barr The accounts by two Justice Department officials on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee painted a damning portrait of the department under Attorney General William P. When gold was discovered in the Sacramento Valley of California in 1848, a large uptick in Chinese immigrants entered the United States to join the California Gold Rush.Transcript Justice Dept. Additionally, floods and drought contributed to an exodus of peasants from their farms, and many left the country to find work. The Opium Wars (1839-42, 1856-60) of the mid-nineteenth century between Great Britain and China left China heavily in debt. Although the Chinese composed only 0.002 percent of the nation's population, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to placate worker demands and assuage concerns about maintaining white "racial purity." Chinese Immigration in America
Many Americans on the West Coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
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