What’s wrong with Republicans trying to delegitimize the justice system? As stevebenen writes, the campaign is dangerous, hypocritical, and based on baseless claims.
As a Republican presidential candidate struggling to break through in a crowded field, former Gov. Asa Hutchinson has an incentive to take positions different from his intra-party rivals. It was against this backdrop that the Arkansan said something unusual on ABC News’ “This Week” yesterday.
Lamenting the fact that so much of the GOP is talking about the “weaponization of the Justice Department,”Jonathan Karl, “Let’s back off of these accusations, and let’s get back to being the party of the rule of law, of the justice system supporting law enforcement and equal application of the law. Let’s don’t undermine the greatest justice system and criminal justice system and rule of law in the world today, this side of heaven.
Given the current state of Republican rhetoric, especially in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment, the former governor is a lone voice in the wilderness. Different GOP contingents have responded to the charges against the former president in competing ways, but the dominant partisan message has been unmistakable: Whether Trump is guilty or not, Republicans are largely united in their belief that the real problem is with federal law enforcement and the nation’s system of justice.
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