BARR: Black Lives Matter is Distorting Important Race Debate

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BARR: Black Lives Matter is Distorting Important Race Debate

‘I think all lives—all human life is—is sacred. And entitled to respect. And obviously black lives matter…’

Attorney General William Barr called out the Black Lives Matter movement for distorting the important debate about systemic racism and injustice in the country.

There’s a difference between the BLM organization and the phrase “black lives matter” that often gets blurred by leftists activists, Barr told ABC News this week.

“I’d make a distinction between the organization, which I don’t agree with, they have a broader agenda,” he said.

“But in terms of the proposition that black lives matter, obviously black lives matter,” he added. “I think all lives—all human life is—is sacred. And entitled to respect. And obviously black lives matter.”

BLM activists, however, are “distorting the debate” by using the phrase “black lives matter” to “refer exclusively to black lives that are lost to police misconduct,” Barr said. And the reality is that the number of police killings, specifically among the black community, has decreased significantly over the past several years, Barr pointed out.

Barr is correct, according to conservative scholar Heather Mac Donald, who explained in the Wall Street Journal that the statistics simply do not support the “systemic racism” narrative BLM activists have been pushing.

According to the data, black Americans killed by cops represent 0.1% of all African Americans killed in 2019, Mac Donald wrote. By contrast, a police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male.

There are other issues in the black community outside of its relationship with law enforcement that BLM is unwilling to address, Barr said.

“Five years ago there were 40 [police killings of black Americans]. This last year it was 10. So at least it’s a positive trajectory there. But then you compare it to 8,000 homicides in the African American community, those are Black lives that matter, too. And those are lives that are protected by the police,” he explained.

President Trump has also been critical of the BLM movement, condemning a massive BLM mural as a “symbol of hate” and denouncing the rioters and looters who have destroyed hundreds of businesses over the past couple of months.

“Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by [New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio] who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!” Trump tweeted this week.

Barr insisted that he had not seen Trump’s latest comments on the BLM movement, but noted that the president has been very supportive of criminal justice reform and law enforcement. That’s true reform, Barr said: emphasizing the need for additional changes but standing by the men and women whose job it is to enforce the law.

Many black Americans would agree that that’s the right approach, Barr said, citing recent conversations he’s had with the African–American community.

“They’re not interested in defunding the police,” he said. “If anything, they wanna help propel the professionalization of police, increase training of police, and also that they’re interested in building a stronger connection between the communities and the police.”

Trump: Far-Left ‘Cancel Culture’ Will ‘Slaughter’ Sheepish Americans

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Trump: Far-Left ‘Cancel Culture’ Will ‘Slaughter’ Sheepish Americans

‘There’s an evilness to it. And I can’t believe that there’s not more pushback…’

President Donald Trump ripped “cancel culture,” misleading polls and the mainstream news media in a new weekend interview with conservative Washington Post columnist Marc A. Thiessen.

Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, was granted rare access to the president and asked him about a range of controversial topics, including Confederate monuments.

The news media has conflated Trump’s defense of America with racism.

His defense of due process in the face of violent mobs and toppled statues has been falsely portrayed as pro-Confederate.

“Oh, I’m not,” said Trump, reminding Thiessen that he’s a lifelong New Yorker. “But I am adamant about defending the past. It’s part of our history.”

The movement, ostensibly triggered by the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, has ballooned far beyond its goal of pursuing reforms against criminal justice and police brutality.

Among the many recent victims of the politically correct mob are:

  • brands like Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben’s
  • movies and television shows—from Oscar-winning classic Gone with the Wind, to children’s cartoon Paw Patrol
  • sports teams like the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins
  • statues of historic figures including Christopher Columbus and Abraham Lincoln
  • the forced removal of the Confederate flag—long protected by First Amendment freedom of expression—from NASCAR events and the Mississippi state flag

“They’re taking down everything and they call it ‘cancel culture,’” Trump said.

“They want to cancel everything,” he continued. “They want to cancel the good and the bad.”

Trump had previously joked that the mobs would come for the nation’s founding fathers, like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The idea seemed so absurd, so unthinkable that it was humorous at the time.

“And it turns out they are next,” he said in the Saturday interview.

“These people are crazy. They’ve gone stone-cold crazy,” he said.

In the interview, Trump was adamant about defending racial equality and peaceful protests.

But he was quick to point out that the spate of nationwide riots and continuing attacks on police officers have nothing to do with peace and justice.

“You had people that were far-left radical maniacs, they were anarchists, and they were agitators,” he said. “And you also had other people that were there and they didn’t know what they were doing—they got caught up in the whole thing.”

Whether demonstrators and supporters of the so-called Black Lives Matter movement were aware of its behind-the-scenes effort or were kept in the dark by complicit leftist media coverage, Trump noted that those organizing it had a calculated political objective from the start.

“You take a look at the people running it, they’re Marxists, they’re people that you don’t want,” Trump said. “And yet, they become almost like this wonderful group of people.”

Trump singled out the National Basketball Association and its praise for the radical BLM.

He noted that the NBA is putting “Black Lives Matter” on league courts, despite the Soros-funded organization’s openly Marxist founders and anti-American, anti-family platforms.

“It’s mainstream, but the people running it are not mainstream,” he warned.

Trump said he’s not the only person that’s wary of Black Lives Matter. “Now, a lot of people don’t want to talk about it because they haven’t got the guts to talk about it,” he said.

But his biggest message was that the American people have to fight back.

If people don’t stand up to cancel culture and the media-activist alliance to erase history and destroy anyone who supports America, the police or traditional Western values, then they’re going to “slaughtered,” Trump said.

“There’s an evilness to it. And I can’t believe that there’s not more pushback,” he added. “But people who are on the other side of the issue, are like lambs being led to slaughter. … They’re going to get slaughtered if they don’t push back.”

Trump laughed when asked about polls showing former Vice President Joe Biden leading the general election match-up.

“Pennsylvania tied. Florida, up one. Wisconsin, up one. Texas, up five. Arizona, Trump 49, Biden 45; North Carolina, Trump up three. And then Montana: Trump up a lot — 52-38,” he said.

“I haven’t really even started to campaign yet,” Trump said, adding: “Now, campaigning’s a little bit tough because of the coronavirus. This thing, what China did to us, is just unbelievable. We were sailing, it was unstoppable. And then, this happened. And it’s [a] shame, but now [we’ve] got to go back to work. But I think we’re doing really well.”

Former Acting DHS Chief Admits Sabotaging Trump’s DACA Policy

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Former Acting DHS Chief Admits Sabotaging Trump’s DACA Policy

‘What was missing for me is really that process of discussing it…’

In a Saturday New York Times interview, the former head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security admitted to undermining President Donald Trump’s DACA policy because it conflicted with her own immigration beliefs.

Elaine Duke, a lifelong Republican, served as the acting DHS secretary from July 31, 2017, to Dec. 6, 2017.

Shortly after her temporary appointment, Duke said she was called to a meeting with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House senior advisor Stephen Miller.

The meeting involved a memo regarding Trump’s order to rescind President Barack Obama’s controversial DACA protections.

Duke said she signed the memo, but she changed it to make the policy legally difficult to justify.

“What was missing for me is really that process of discussing it,” she said.

“It is a grave decision not only from a legal standpoint but from the effect it will have on not just 700,000 people but 700,000 people plus their families.”

Duke’s resistance operation apparently worked: Activist judges quickly enjoined Trump’s policy to block it from taking effect—despite the fact that the president was using his executive power to undo an illegal, constitutionally unjustifiable fiat by the Obama administration not to enforce federal law.

The costly and time-consuming legal process went all the way to the Supreme Court, which dealt it a blow last month, indicating that the policy had not complied with procedural requirements.

By stripping the legal justifications for the Trump order, Duke’s altered memo became central to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to strike it down.

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court’s four liberals in issuing the majority opinion, in which he said the lack of legal reasoning offered in the written policy amounted to an “arbitrary and capricious” executive action, failing to meet the standards applied under the Administrative Procedures Act.

DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, allows minors that are brought to the United States unlawfully by their illegal immigrants parents to stay in the country without fear of deportation even though they are not U.S. citizens.

An estimated 800,000 DACA recipients currently live in the U.S., most of whom are no longer minors.

Duke said Sessions and Miller believed that Obama’s constitutionally dubious program, which was created through an executive order, amounted to a de facto amnesty and beacon for other illegal immigrants.

She told the Times she disagreed with that perspective and that she hoped Republicans and Democrats would find a way to allow illegal immigrants and their children to live and work permanently in the U.S.

Duke called Trump’s “America First” philosophy, “American Only.”

St. Louis Seizes Rifle from Patriot McCloskeys

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St. Louis Seizes Rifle from Patriot McCloskeys

‘My clients didn’t sit on their front stoop with guns…’

St. Louis police officers on Friday seized the rifle that Mark McCloskey used on June 28 to keep “300 to 500” trespassers from harming his family and property, KSDK reported.

The McCloskey’s attorney, Albert Watkins, reportedly took possession of the handgun that Patricia McCloskey pointed at the trespassers who had threatened the family.

Police officers stole the McCloskey’s firearms without arresting them or charging them with crimes.

The police only obtained a search warrant to take the rifle.

The McCloskeys spoke July 6 on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, called “Hannity.”

“[They said] that they were going to kill us,” Patricia McCloskey said. “They were going to come in there. They were going to burn down the house.”

“They were going to be living in our house after I was dead, and they were pointing to different rooms and said, ‘That’s going to be my bedroom and that’s going to be the living room and I’m going to be taking a shower in that room,'” she said.

The McCloskeys said a group of agitators and trespassers returned to their neighborhood on July 3, but they had prepared themselves by hiring private security and hiding their valuable possessions.

The family said an agitator threatened to murder their dog.

The trespassers said they did not plan to harass the McCloskeys, but instead intended to protest in front of Mayor Lyda Krewson’s home.

Following the tense encounter, Kimberly Gardner, circuit attorney in St. Louis, said her office would investigate the McCloskeys for brandishing their firearms to keep the trespassers from harming them.

Watkins said the McCloskey’s did not display their firearms until after the trespassers began to intimidate them.

“My clients didn’t sit on their front stoop with guns,” Watkins said. “No firearms were on them at the time…It was not until they basically were in a position of seeing and observing violence, recklessness, lawbreaking, and knowing that the police were not going to be doing anything.”

NBC News Plans to Hire Half-Minority, Half-Female Workforce

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NBC News Plans to Hire Half-Minority, Half-Female Workforce

‘It’s not just the right thing to do. It’s the right thing for any business that wants to grow in the United States…’

The new head of NBC News, Cesar Conde, announced this week that one of his first goals will be hiring a workforce that is half-minority.

Right now, 27% of NBC News’s employees are minorities, including 8% each of black, Latino and Asian workers.

Conde said that number should be up to 50% within the next couple of years, according to Breitbart.

Conde also wants female employees to comprise 50% of his workforce, he said.

“It’s not just the right thing to do,” Conde said on Thursday. “It’s the right thing for any business that wants to grow in the United States.”

A more diverse workforce will improve NBC News’s reporting and analysis, Conde claimed.

“We are a news organization that I think has a unique responsibility to reflect and represent the various communities we serve,” he said. “In order to do that, we wanted to make sure that we attract the best and the brightest from all walks of life.”

Managers at NBC’s various organizations will literally be judged based on how many minorities they hire, along with finances and show ratings, Conde admitted. This will force employers to not just hire, but retain minorities.

“This is the right moment for NBC Universal to not just wait for change to happen but to take the lead in it,” he said.

NBC is one of several companies to announce hiring initiatives in light of recent racial tensions. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. announced earlier this year that it would be setting targets for hiring minorities and more women.

The firm said it wanted to make sure that women make up half of its entry-level workforce,  and that its associates and analysts are 14% Latino and 11% black.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Trump Commutes Sentence for ‘Unfairly Treated’ Roger Stone

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Trump Commutes Sentence for ‘Unfairly Treated’ Roger Stone

‘Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out…’

Update: NBC News reported late Friday that Trump had formally commuted Roger Stone’s sentence.

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) President Donald Trump hinted on Friday that he is “looking at” pardoning conservative impresario Roger Stone as early as Friday evening.

As one of the final acts of the Mueller special counsel investigation into Russian collusion, Stone, a former Trump campaign adviser, was indicted on charges of lying to Congress and witness tampering.

He was convicted last year after a dramatic televised arrest and defiant show in the courtroom.

He was scheduled to report to prison next week, but Trump suggested to reporters that he might intervene.

“Well, I’ll be looking at it,” Trump said. “I think Roger Stone was very unfairly treated, as were many people.”

Trump made a similar comment earlier this week when radio host Howie Carr told Trump that Stone was “praying” for a pardon.

“If you say he’s praying, his prayer may be answered,” Trump said. “Let’s see what happens.”

And in another interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump said he’s “always thinking” about whether to pardon or commute Stone, who was “treated so badly” by federal prosecutors despite being a “good person,” Trump added.

This isn’t the first time Trump has come to Stone’s aid. During Stone’s trial, Trump publicly asked the court to “throw out” Stone’s conviction after learning the the jury forewoman was a former Democratic candidate for Congress who regularly posted anti-Trump messages on social media.

“Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out,” Trump said.

Attorney General William Barr also intervened during Stone’s sentencing, reversing the original excessive sentence of between seven to nine years to a less harsh punishment.

Barr denied that Trump’s comments influenced his decision, and said that he had not been asked by Trump to look into the case.

MURDOCK: Appeals to Base Won’t Suffice; Trump Must Inspire Apathetic Independents

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MURDOCK: Appeals to Base Won’t Suffice; Trump Must Inspire Apathetic Independents

‘Creating his own distractions makes it that much harder for Trump to get re-elected … an existential imperative for the survival of America as we have known it…’

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(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) President Donald J. Trump likely finds the latest Gallup poll neither very special nor particularly beautiful. If it’s incredible, that’s because it’s incredibly alarming.

“In early May, Trump’s approval tied his personal best at 49 percent—before it sank amid nationwide protests over racial injustice after the death of George Floyd,” Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones wrote about this survey of adults, released Monday.

“Now his approval rating stands just 3 percentage points above his personal low of 35 percent registered on four separate occasions in 2017,” Jones said.

Even more ominously, the last two presidents with approval below 40 percent this close to Election Day were George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. And look what happened to them.

Given these grim numbers, and with just nine weeks before early voters pull the first levers, President Trump at once needs to focus like a bloodhound on winning a second term.

The alternative is unthinkable—an addled Joe Biden weakly assenting to Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and their every unhinged, extreme, vindictive, far-Left fantasy.

The president needs to stop wasting precious time with Twitter messages about seemingly every petty controversy that arises.

He already has a massive problem getting his important messages out, thanks to the Hate Trump Media, which constantly gnaw at him, like termites nibbling through the floorboards.

Creating his own distractions makes it that much harder for Trump to get re-elected, an objective that has grown from an urgent priority to an existential imperative for the survival of America as we have known it.

The president recently wondered on Twitter if NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace would apologize over a two-week-old incident involving a noose-like garage-door closer discovered at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway.

Who cares? The president of the United States has far bigger cars to race, especially a fortnight after this flap ended with warm shows of support for Wallace, NASCAR’s sole black racer.

On Saturday, President Trump travels to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for a campaign rally. Energizing his base is vital. But with 91 percent of Republicans already supporting Trump, per Gallup, he cannot rise much above his near-deity status.

Trump needs to expand his base, pronto.

For every rally, he should do at least three events with independents, suburban women, and black voters.

  • Trump should explain to black parents that he strongly backs school choice, while Biden sadistically promises to padlock charter schools.
  • Trump should visit minority-owned companies that have grown through his Opportunity Zone program.
  • He should introduce Americans to black former prisoners who have benefited from his First Step Act/criminal-justice reform and made something of themselves.
  • Trump repeatedly should visit Historically Black Colleges and Universities and explain how his robust support for those institutions boosts the educational and professional prospects for the black students who populate these campuses.

Conveniently enough, asking for black votes calms whites rattled by relentless, filthy media and Democrat lies about Trump’s alleged racism.

Trump’s white support has fallen from 57 percent in May to 48 percent in June. Appealing to blacks also will boost Trump’s approval numbers among whites.

The president should offer a positive, optimistic vision of how his ideas will reverse COVID-19’s damage and make America great again, again.

Trumponomics triumphed. Tax cuts, deregulation, energy independence, and other pro-market reforms can work their magic once more.

Finally, Trump must remember that he is not running against athletes, comedians and pundits. He is running against an increasingly befogged Joe Biden, first elected 48 years ago.

So, atop his own positive message, Trump must highlight Biden’s weaknesses, his shabby Senate record, the Obama–Biden Administration’s abundant failures, and the bonkers AOC/BLM/Antifa Left that will control Washington, if Biden wins.

President Trump should discuss these huge ideas, ignore sniping celebrities, and lock up his magic Twitter machine, save for major, upbeat announcements, such as bill signings, new treaties, and COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs.

In short, a presidential re-election is a terrible thing to waste.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor, a contributing editor with National Review Online, and a senior fellow with the London Center for Policy Research.

NADLER: Barr Sought ‘Quid-Pro-Quo’ Deal Prior to Firing NY Attorney

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NADLER: Barr Sought ‘Quid-Pro-Quo’ Deal Prior to Firing NY Attorney

‘We don’t know yet if the attorney general’s conduct is criminal, but that kind of quid pro quo is awfully close to bribery…’

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., accused Attorney General William Barr of flirting with criminal conduct in his handling of the removal of a top federal prosecutor in New York.

Nadler left a closed-door hearing with Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney in Manhattan, and suggested that Barr might have engaged in “bribery” by offering Berman “plum assignments in the administration” and later “threatening to fire him” if he did not resign voluntarily.

“The attorney general repeatedly attempted to entice Mr. Berman to step down voluntarily, even after Berman made clear that his leaving would disrupt certain sensitive cases,” Nadler told reporters on Thursday.

“We don’t know yet if the attorney general’s conduct is criminal, but that kind of quid pro quo is awfully close to bribery,” he said.

As was the case with House Democrats’ spurious impeachment claims that President Donald Trump sought a quid-pro-quo bargain with Ukraine, the fact that neither side fulfilled the terms of the proposed arrangement may be more than a slight technicality.

Berman, who refused to step down despite pressure from Barr to do so, was fired by President Trump last month. He testified before the House Judiciary Committee this week during a three-hour long meeting, and told lawmakers that Barr “repeatedly urged” him to resign and take a different position in the Justice Department.

“I told the Attorney General that I was not interested,” Berman told the panel.

Berman explained “there were important investigations in the Office that I wanted to see through to completion.”

When Barr warned that if he didn’t go, he would be fired, “I told him that while I did not want to get fired, I would not resign,” Berman said.

Nadler claimed that Berman’s firing is “part of a clear and dangerous pattern” of behavior by Barr to protect the president from investigations.

Many of the “Trump-related investigations are run out of the Southern District of New York,” where Berman worked, Nadler pointed out.

“We can put two and two together,” he said.

CNN’s Don Lemon Panned for Claiming Jesus ‘Admittedly Was Not Perfect’

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CNN’s Don Lemon Panned for Claiming Jesus ‘Admittedly Was Not Perfect’

‘Why are we deifying the founders of this country, many of whom owned slaves?’

In an attempt to make a point about historical figures and their statues, CNN’s Don Lemon claimed that Jesus Christ was “not perfect.”

“Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe in, Jesus Christ, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth,” Lemon told his fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.

“So why are we deifying the founders of this country, many of whom owned slaves?” he asked.

Lemon was trying to respond to the argument that historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington deserve recognition for the good that they did, despite their faults.

But in doing so, he revealed just how little he understands religious Americans and their faith,” noted Christian faith-leaders.

Lemon’s un-biblical and ahistorical argument “makes him and his network the uncontested champions of Fake News,” said Pastor Robert Jeffress, a prominent conservative commentator, in response.

“Don Lemon’s comments are, first of all, heretical,” Jeffress, the pastor of 14,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, told Fox News.

“And it contradicts the most basic tenet of the Christian faith and demonstrates how tone-deaf the left is to faith issues,” he added.

Cuomo made a similarly anti-religious comment last week when he chastised Americans for turning to prayer amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

“If you believe in one another and if you do the right thing for yourself and your community, things will get better in this country,” Cuomo said last Friday.

You don’t need help from above,” he continued. “It’s within us.”

Lemon has long maintained a personal grudge against President Donald Trump, who last year referred to the anchor as the “dumbest man on television.”

Rep. Al Green Vows to Fast-Track Court Cases on Trump’s Tax Records

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Rep. Al Green Vows to Fast-Track Court Cases on Trump’s Tax Records

‘When the Congress of the United States presents a case against the President of the United States, it should not be comingled with all other cases…’

(Caleb Curfman, Headline USA) Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, on Thursday vowed to use the legislative chamber to speed up the process for two court cases that would allow President Donald Trump’s political opponents to access his tax documents.

“Today, the United States Supreme Court—through two decisions—sent a much-needed message to a reckless, ruthless, lawless president that he is not above the law,” Green said in a press statement after the Supreme Court ruled to remand both cases back to the lower courts.

Trump v. Mazars would allow House Democrats to subpoena the president’s financial records.

Trump v. Vanceseeks to grant access to Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney who is pursuing state cases against Trump for his alleged hush-money payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy bunny Karen McDougal.

Green, a far-left radical who introduced several measures to impeach Trump long before his fellow House Democrats followed suit, hopes to expedite the process so that his party has more ammunition ahead of the November election.

“The Trump v. Vance ruling provides a path for the New York District Attorney’s Office to examine President Trump’s financial records for any violation of campaign finance laws as well as any possible conflicts of interest or emoluments from foreign powers,” he said.

The president and his lawyers have dismissed both cases as politically motivated fishing expeditions. Moreover, the court decisions noted that they raised grave concerns regarding the balance of powers between the three branches of government.

The Mazars case would allow the legislative branch to effectively weaponize the judiciary against the executive branch. And the Vance case would mean a president may be hindered by constant litigation and spurious oversight at the state level.

Green railed against the court for potentially blocking the president’s financial records from being disclosed before the election, claiming that “justice is being severely delayed and temporarily denied.”

He ranted that the court had treated House Democrats’ lawsuit just like any other by refusing to fast-track it.

“When the Congress of the United States presents a case against the President of the United States, it should not be comingled with all other cases,” Green complained.

“There should not be a years-long battle for a ruling,” he continued. “Maintenance of the balance of federal powers requires that any such case be prioritized.”

Green said his proposed bill would allow the House to bypass the slow pace of jurisprudence when a matter as urgent as getting dirt on a top political rival was at stake.

“I plan to propose legislation to fast-track lawsuits filed by Congress against the President of the United States to thwart the use of the justice system to perpetrate unjust dilatory tactics,” he said. “This is what our country deserves and justice demands.”

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

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