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November 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. attorney general William Barr delivered a forceful speech Friday to the annual National Lawyers’ Convention of the conservative Federalist Society, during which he argued that the left-wing “Resistance” to President Donald Trump is not mere partisan politics, but an assault on the American presidency’s constitutional role.
“Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called ‘The Resistance,’ and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver available to sabotage the functioning of his administration,” Barr said. “Instead of viewing themselves as the ‘loyal opposition,’ as opposing parties have done in the past, they essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple, by any means necessary, a duly elected government.”
His first example was that, while it is the opposition party’s prerogative to vote against a president’s nominees, Senate Democrats have moved to “systematically oppose and draw out the approval process for every appointee so as to prevent the president from building a functional government,” to the point where the Republican majority has had to invoke cloture 236 times to proceed to a nomination vote (as opposed to just 17 cloture votes on President Barack Obama’s first-term nominees).
Read More....all the way to his summation.....“Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they called ‘The Resistance,’ and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver available to sabotage the functioning of his administration,” Barr said. “Instead of viewing themselves as the ‘loyal opposition,’ as opposing parties have done in the past, they essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple, by any means necessary, a duly elected government.”
His first example was that, while it is the opposition party’s prerogative to vote against a president’s nominees, Senate Democrats have moved to “systematically oppose and draw out the approval process for every appointee so as to prevent the president from building a functional government,” to the point where the Republican majority has had to invoke cloture 236 times to proceed to a nomination vote (as opposed to just 17 cloture votes on President Barack Obama’s first-term nominees).
They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications.”
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