An Assault on the Rule of Law

President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr are engaged in all out assault on the American value and tradition of the rule of law. They have seen to it that our proud and professional Department of Justice will not function as it should when the subject of its activity is a friend of President Trump. Roger Stone, Trump’s friend and political operative, was lawfully tried for and convicted of obstructing a federal proceeding, making false statements to Congress, and witness tampering. There is no reason to believe that the federal prosecutors who brought those charges against Stone and secured his conviction acted an any way improperly. But Donald Trump cares nothing about that. Roger Stone is his man, so for Trump he should not be subject to the same law and the same legal proceedings that the rest of us are. Under Donald Trump the rule of law, if not quite dead yet, is under serious attack. We cannot allow this assault on a bedrock of American liberty to stand. Attorney General Barr must resign. If he doesn’t he must be impeached. There probably isn’t time to impeach Trump a second time before the November election, but if there were the House would have to impeach him all over again. If the American system of freedoms and rights is to survive we must remove Donald Trump from office next November. If we do not we will have no one to blame but ourselves for the destruction of our liberty grounded in law.