Thursday, November 14, 2024

Thomas D. Klingenstein: Americans Have Rejected DOJ’s Lawfare

By T.J. Harker


The people of this great nation are slow to anger, patient, and inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. They also have an ancient reverence for the rule of law, deferring to its pronouncements in even the most controversial matters. But, for the last eight years, some of the most corrupt, cynical, and treacherous men and women ever to walk the halls of power in Washington, D.C., exploited these admirable traits. I'm speaking, of course, of the leadership and even some of the rank-and-file of the Department of Justice.


Finally, on November 5, the people of the United States of America delivered a late but stunning rebuke to the ruling elite, the Washington bureaucracy, and above all the Department of Justice. Indeed, never in this country's history has such a public and censorious rebuke been delivered so clearly to a single federal agency.


That rebuke makes clear that the Department of Justice has failed totally to meet the high standards of excellence expected by the American people. It has disgraced itself in every respect: wallowing in dishonestytargeting its opponentskid-gloving its allies while hammering its enemiesobliterating legal normsweaponizing the legal systemprosecuting the political opposition, and normalizing lawfare.


In short, the Department of Justice has reached the nadir: it is treacherous and pathetic. And all the world knows it...

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