A former federal prosecutor fired by President Donald Trump on Sunday delivered a blunt warning about what is happening to the rule of law in the United States.While speaking with CBS News' "60 Minutes," attorney Sara Levine bluntly said that "the Justice Department is under attack" by the new admin...

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Former federal prosecutor Sara Levine, fired by Trump, warned on 60 Minutes that the Justice Department is “under attack.”

Levine, who prosecuted January 6 rioters, said she was fired for upholding the law.

Legal expert Peter Keisler criticized Trump’s pardons of Capitol rioters, arguing they signal that crimes committed in support of Trump’s agenda may go unpunished.

These actions undermine the rule of law and discouraging accountability for political violence.

  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    712·
    2 days ago

    Uh-huh, and how is constantly voting for the lesser evil going for you? What did you seriously expect to happen? We’d just keep slipping towards fascism but never actually reach it?

    • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      You and people like you are the problem, and you’re blaming the people who are being directly affected by the poor decisions you yourself are choosing to make.

          • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            and you’re blaming the people who are being directly affected by the poor decisions you yourself are choosing to make.

            People are blaming the Dems, not other voters… Unless of course, you’re a lib, who blames voters for not wanting to back a genocider or grifter…

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        33·
        2 days ago

        The fact that this is constantly the response from libs being called out is honestly the reason I have given up. I’ve spent the last decade being politically active, trying to motivate Americans to vote in their own self-interest for things that will actually improve their lives, and I’ve received nothing but insults and assumptions from centrists who’ve never done a damn thing to prevent the collapse we’re witnessing now.

        So yeah, fuck it. My informed opinion after campaigning for third parties and leftists for years is that Americans deserve everything that is going to happen to us. You didn’t want a democracy, and now you don’t have one. Congrats!

        • CMonster@discuss.onlineEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          Honestly, it’s hard to fault politically disconnected people who feel that way. The democrats are just the ratchet strap that keeps us from going any further left while the republicans drag us farther right. The GOP also has a literal firehose of constant media drenching the working class while the democrats just suck on the corporate peepee. I voted for harris this time because it was the lesser evil but i am starting to understand how someone who doesn’t pay attention winds up voting for trump.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          The main difference is one smiles at you while stabbing you in the back, and the other laughs at you while gutting you.

          Either way, you’re dead.

        • WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          Both sides aren’t the same because they’re just as bad, they’re the same because they work together. Dems haven’t made meaningful changes in a long time and I’m done supporting them while they do nothing. They are complicit.