Justice

The House passed the MORE Act to decriminalize marijuana AND erase past convictions. It’s an overdue step in addressing unjust drug laws that have torn apart Black and Brown communities.

The House of Representatives passed the MORE Act on December 4, 2020 by a vote of 228-164. The vote fell largely along party lines, with 6 Democrats voting against the bill and 5 Republicans voting for it. The chamber’s lone Libertarian member, Rep. Justin Amash, voted for it.

Cruelty: The constant, devastating feature of the Trump administration.

Private company: "We are going to work hard to encourage more diversity."

Republican government: "We think you are harming the majority white people and we will use big government to attack you."

Microsoft in June said it plans to increase the number of Black and African-American leaders within the company by devoting an additional $150 million to diversity and inclusion efforts.

This is a crime against humanity.

The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all undocumented immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were “deeply concerned” about the children’s welfare.

The separation of migrant children from their parents, sometimes for months, was at the heart of the Trump administration’s assault on immigration. 

SOUND THE ALARMS AT FULL BLAST.

The demonic Bill Barr is setting the stage to disrupt our elections in a matter of weeks.  Trump, Barr, and Fox News are working in concert to undermine confidence in the election

Worst Secretary of State in history and all around horrible person Mike Pompeo has sanctioned two International Criminal Court officials in an insanely corrupt attempt to deter an ICC investigation into possible war crimes by US military and intelligence officials.

This is an unusual post for Smart Dissent.  It's simply a list of the horrifically dangerous lies being told by the head of OUR Department of Justice head Bill Barr.

Let's begin:

1) In early September 2020, Bill Barr confidently, even pugnaciously, told CNN viewers about a massive mail-in ballots fraud incident in Texas that never happened.

You probably msised this Friday night news leading into Labor Day, a purposeful time to dump news that Republicans want to avoid us noticing. 

Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies’ racial sensitivity trainings, casting some of them as “divisive” and “un-American”....

 OMB Director Russell Vought says Trump has asked him to prevent federal agencies from spending millions in taxpayer dollars on these training sessions.

Two top Department of Homeland Security political appointees tried to get the White House to do more on right-wing terrorism. Both gave up on the Trump administration and have now endorsed Biden.

CNN has made an admirable effort to continue to update the list of 37 - YES 37 - times Trump has obeyed his boss Putin.

Over the years, Trump's made no secret that he has a soft spot for the country and its authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin. Trump has proved that he is willing to reject widely held US foreign policy views and align himself with the Kremlin on everything from Russian interference in US elections to the war in Syria.