Former Attorney General John Ashcroft ripped apart Democrats’ narrative that the Trump administration is using the Department of Justice as a personal office to prosecute “political enemies.” Ashcroft was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of the nomination of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the permanent position when Democrats like Sens. Adam […]
The Christie brothers present a fascinating case study in modern American power. New Jersey politics has long resembled a carnival midway where the games appear simple, the prizes glitter enticingly, and the operators insist everything is perfectly legitimate. Yet the more closely one examines the mechanics of the enterprise, the more one begins to suspect […] The post Chris Christie and the Curious Arithmetic of Power appeared first on StoneZone .
The Christie brothers present a fascinating case study in modern American power. New Jersey politics has long resembled a carnival midway where the games appear simple, the prizes glitter enticingly, and the operators insist everything is perfectly legitimate. Yet the more closely one examines the mechanics of the enterprise, the more one begins to suspect that the odds have been arranged rather carefully. Few stories illustrate this curious arithmetic of power better than the saga of Chris Christie and his younger brother Todd Christie. The Christie brothers were raised in Newark and later Livingston, New Jersey, in a middle class household. Their father Bill Christie worked as a Wall Street accountant while their mother Sondra served…Open
Former Attorneys General Bill Barr, Michael Mukasey, Jeff Sessions, and John Ashcroft sent a letter to Federal Judicial Center Director Judge Robin Rosenberg criticizing the chapter in the fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.