It’s NOT not OK because of Barr’s opinion. It’s not OK because it inserts the executive branch into the judicial process in individual cases. By all accounts except the CEC, that’s just not done. Ever. Obama didn’t do it, Bush didn’t do it, Clinton didn’t do it. Neither did any of their attorneys general, including William Barr before he hooked up with Donald Trump.
If you want to believe that Barr took this step without direction from Trump, a step he apparently hasn’t taken in the hundreds if not thousands of cases handled by the DOJ since he assumed the AG position, that’s OK. I guess it’s the sort of thing that Trump supporters need to believe to continue to support him.
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The sentencing recommendation is not remotely the “judicial process”, it is now and has always been squarely a DOJ process.
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Yes. By all means, let’s not focus on the fact that Presidents and AG’s simply DO NOT DO THIS. Let’s get hung up on semantics. 
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Or we can focus on it’s not being illegal, within the scope of AG’s authority and remind the left, they lost the election and do not get to dictate how Trump governs.
You know what else Presidents had never ever done before? Allow me to list a few that were definite firsts in the last administration.
Ordering the murder of four US citizens without due process.
Giving guns to drug cartels, without bothering to track them.
Rewriting immigration law to grant immunity to illegal aliens.
To name just a few.
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When in doubt, whatabout. I admire your persistence.
Political grandstanding, they have no power and no consituency.
They do have a constituency. Millions of Americans that still believe in the rule of law, which basically excludes most Trump supporters.
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Horse hockey. They aren’t elected and they aren’t running for any office, they have no constituency. Not one person in a thousand is even talking about them.
at least 25 people are so…wrong again
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OK use that number if you like, 2,500 out of how many?
Exactly.
Also, @WildRose constituency has more than one definition. The one I was referring to was this…
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We don’t speak British English in the US. Keep grasping at those straws.
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Are you not aware of the differences? Colour me shocked.
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Wait…are you being serious? You didn’t actually know that constituency had more than one meaning?
Bwahahahahahaha!!!
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You seem amused. No idea why.
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If you could actually read what was posted instead of making it up as you go along it would be helpful.
