Judicial Branch? Wozzat?
So now the Executive Branch is defying the Judicial Branch as well as Congress. That’s a dictatorship.
Federal prosecutors on Friday declined to make public transcripts of recorded conversations between Michael Flynn and Russia’s ambassador to the United States in December 2016, despite a judge’s order.
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Prosecutors also failed to release an unredacted version of portions of the Mueller report related to Flynn that the judge had ordered be made public.
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The government’s unusual response came after U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in Washington ordered earlier in May that the Justice Department make public various materials related to the case, including transcripts of any audio recordings of Flynn, such as his conversations with Russian officials.
An “unusual response” indeed. “Authoritarian” is a more specific descriptor.
Sullivan ordered the transcripts of Flynn’s conversations released two weeks ago after The Washington Post filed a motion seeking the release of redacted and sealed documents in the case. The Post argued that the public deserved to know more about the Trump adviser’s role in key events and the information he shared with investigators.
It’s not as if we’re just some prurient neighbors wanting to know all the gossip. We have to decide how to vote and whether or not to bombard Congress with messages. We’re not outsiders here.
Over many years, politicians have been starting to behave like aristocrats. Voting has become a sham, when there is a layer of bureaucrats who are instructed to install the president that the oligarchs want, rather than the president voted for by the people. Small wonder that the US now has a leader whom nobody can actually challenge.