Bully Boy Bill Barr is America’s Ultimate Chaos Agent// David Lurie // Daily Beast

The post civil war 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments promised equality to the freed slaves , African Americans, and others But the post-war Black Codes known as Jim Crow rendered those rights almost a nullity for a century.  Only with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 was national authority firmly asserted to begin the restoration of the equal justice intended by the post-war amendments.

Since then the Supreme Court has affirmed national authority - with significant exceptions.  The Violence Against Women Act was declared an overreach by the court.  The connection to the empowering commerce clause was too tenuous the Court held.  No thought was given to the idea that the national government was empowered to protect women however it deemed necessary.

Now the Trump/Barr administration has deployed federal forces to Portland - a city that neither sought nor needed their assistance in the view of the elected mayor.

David Lurie discusses the overreach and dangerous precedents that William Barr's Justice Department is setting. - gwc
Bully Boy Bill Barr is America’s Ultimate Chaos Agent// David Lurie // Daily Beast
by David R. Lurie