Is the Bidens Justice Department really going to defend Trump against the Capitol Riots lawsuit?
The issue has arisen from a strange and disturbing trend in recent times in which the DOJ, currently led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, has been fighting for the ex-president. In May, for example, the department filed a motion to appeal a decision by federal judges that the agency was to release the memo that Bill Barr used to help rid Trump of the obstruction of the investigation. on Russia. Weeks later, attorneys for Garlands continued Barrs efforts to defend Trump in a libel lawsuit brought by author E. Jean Carroll, Barrs DOJ arguing that Trump was acting in his capacity as POTUS when he responded to her rape allegations saying, Number one, thats not my type. Second, it never happened, and then also: [Shes] totally lie. I dont know anything about her. I dont know anything about this woman. I dont know anything about her. Its just a terrible thing that people can make statements like that. Obviously, this was disturbing for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that (1) a federal judge already ruled last October that Trump was not, in fact, acting in his job. when he went after Carroll, leaving the Justice Department under no obligation to defend the guy (2) he is now a private citizen who claims to be very wealthy and can afford his own lawyers and ( 3) As Carrolls attorney said, such a government position would give federal officials a free license to cover up private sexual misconduct by publicly brutalizing any woman who has the courage to come forward. Additionally, the department may have found itself in a corner where it may have to defend Trump from lawsuits accusing him of instigating the Jan.6 attack on Capitol Hill. According to a number of constitutional scholars and lawyers who have spoken to Reuters, the DOJs decision in the Carroll case to assert that presidents enjoy fundamentally unlimited immunity for their comments in office will likely have profound implications for a number of pending lawsuits, including those relating to the Trump-provoked insurgency. Lawyer Philip Andonian has said he is concerned that the Justice Department, using the same legal reasoning, will also defend Trump in a case that Andonian is pursuing on behalf of U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California. Swalwell alleges that Trump instigated the deadly January 6 riot in an attempt to prevent Congress from fulfilling its duty to certify Biden as the winner of the election. Andonian called the logic behind the departments decision to defend Trump against Carrolls libel suit alarming. The Justice Department appears to place no limits on a sitting presidents immunity from speaking on any matter deemed to be of public interest, Andonian said. A prominent constitutional scholar called the departments position in the Carroll case an error that will be difficult to correct. It would be very difficult for the Justice Department to change course now, said Laurence Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard University and frequent critic of Trump. The Titanic is aiming for the iceberg. Tribe and other critics of the departments position say he makes no obvious distinctions between the official conduct of the president and matters that clearly fall outside the functions of the office. When a president says or does something illegal, they say, it does not warrant a taxpayer-funded defense by government lawyers. Garland defended the position taken by the Department of Justice in the Carroll case, saying, Sometimes we have to make a decision about the law that we would never have made and with which we deeply disagree on. the political level. Andonian, Swalwells attorney, told Reuters he believed the Justice Department would adopt the same argument he used against Carroll to claim that Trump was speaking on matters of public interest during his speech on the 6th. January which preceded the attack on the Capitol. As a reminder, during this speech, Trump told the crowd, among other things:  All of us here today dont want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left-wing Democrats, which they are doing. And stolen by the fake media. This is what they have done and what they are doing. We will never give up, we will never give in. It does not happen. You dont recognize when there is a theft. Our country has had enough. We wont take it anymore and thats what it is. And to use a favorite term that all of you have really found: well stop the theft. Today Im going to present some of the evidence to prove that we won this election and that we won it by a landslide. It was not a close election. Republicans are, Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with their hands tied behind their backs. Its like a boxer. And we want to be so nice. We want to be so respectful of everyone, including the wrong people. And were going to have to fight a lot harder. Mike Pence is going to have to fight for us, and if he doesnt, it will be a sad day for our country because you have sworn to uphold our Constitution. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you dont fight like a devil, you wont have a country. The Justice Department declined Reuters request to comment on whether it would actually use the Carroll argument to intervene in other prosecutions against Trump. And I hope it wont! 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