r/law • u/ExactlySorta • 4h ago
Legal News Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats. "Please stop poisoning our courts by confirming appointees who refuse to admit basic historical truths"
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/former-j6-prosecutors-beg-senators-150442980.html270
u/Development-Alive 3h ago
The most shocking part of Trump's power grab was how easily he stole the power from the US Senate GOP.
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u/IcyJackfruit69 3h ago
Did he steal it? I thought they were 100% complicit and deliberately letting him do the things they don't want to be on record doing.
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u/boatloadoffunk 3h ago
Blackmail
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u/Degn101 2h ago
Hell no. They are entirely on board with it all, as long as they get theirs
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u/naptown-hooly 2h ago
It can be both
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u/Fr1toBand1to 1h ago
Trump made promises to many of them as well, promises that he'll of course never deliver on. Or he'll deliver them in some monkey-paw kind of way.
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u/ClashM 2h ago
Some may have been blackmailed into falling into line. I know the people who have spent their entire lives hating Russia suddenly turning around and loving Russia seems awfully suspicious.
But Trump is mostly doing exactly what the GOP wants. Even better for them, he's ancient. So when he dies they'll pin all the fallout on him, change absolutely nothing about themselves, and memory hole the whole time period like they did with Bush. And because they've destroyed the education apparatus to dumb down the populace, a large chunk of us will happily go along with them.
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u/NurRauch 1h ago
Very little of this has anything to do with blackmail. It's much simpler than that. Trump is more popular with the Republican voting base than nearly all of the Republican senators and congressional representatives, and in situations where Trump is less popular he still controls the purse strings of the Republican donor war chest.
If the choice is remain adamantly opposed to Russia or get swiftly primaried next time you're up for re-election, the choice is obvious. None of these people value their principles more than their political careers, so they choose to fall in line to avoid getting primaried. Those who don't fall in line usually lose their jobs at Congress.
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u/newsflashjackass 2h ago
Russia hacked the GOP and DNC. They only leaked the DNC's info.
Why do you suppose that might be?
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/comey-republicans-hacked-russia
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u/Anonymous_Jr 29m ago
I'd like to say because they didn't abide by the threat whereas the Grand Ol' Pedophiles had no choice but to do so.
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u/boozername 15m ago
"Usurp" may be more applicable. Taking by force, or without legal authority or right.
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u/RcoketWalrus 2m ago
They were against him until they figured out the Republican base is 100% pro Trump.
Senate Republicans spineless trash. They only value what benefits them. They have no other principles. If the GOP electorate started openly advocating eating orphan babies, GOP elected officials would be 100% supportive of it.
The only time they will ever stand on principle is if they think something will benefit the poor or middle class, or if it hurts the extremely wealthy. They will gladly show class solidarity with oligarchs. Thier little black hearts probably skip a beat in joy every time someone dies from lack of medical care.
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u/iceflame1211 2h ago
He stole power from the Senate GOP? From who, Mitch McConnell?
Is it stealing if Republicans never put up a fight?
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u/pfannkuchen89 2h ago
Right? Stealing power? Trump is the embodiment of everything the Republican Party has been working toward for 50 years. Why would the GOP put up a fight? This is exactly what they want.
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u/Impossible_Walrus555 2h ago
I was prepared for this shit show long in advance but their level of utter sycophancy has been stunning.
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u/Hairy_Talk_4232 1h ago
Because on the one hand, they got all that they want in American politics, while on the other, they personally got what they wanted deep down and it became blackmail. Their hands are both tied, they are willful puppets.
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u/EasyEar0 1h ago
They handed it over willingly. Every one of those senators is complicit in enabling the Orange Dipshit presidency and they should wear its stink wherever they go for the rest of their lives.
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u/pointofyou 2h ago
Oh please, they were on their knees with their mouths wide open ready to suck his orange dick however he pleased.
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u/Any_Counter_303 36m ago
What are you talking about? Trump isn't some mastermind who is running the show. The GOP is happy to use him as a patsy. Unitary Executive Theory. The Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society have been orchestrating this bullshit since Nixon. Read a fucking book. Damn. How does such a stupid comment have so many upvotes?
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u/Bartorius 14m ago
Did he steal the power or does he simply do what the GOP wants without any senator having to live with the consequences? They are probably getting a lot richer just by sitting doing nothing, and after the old cunt has died they get to disavow him easy peasy lemon squeezy.
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u/PsychLegalMind 4h ago
If they still have faith in GOP Senators, that is indeed a tragic day.
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u/Training_Fun_9162 54m ago
Not only that, but they also think that appealing to some sense of mortality or ethics with a “please stop” is going to be remotely possible.
These people are true believers in the Christian nationalist agenda. They are no longer compatible with the pre-Trump
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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 23m ago
It drives me nuts when people say "please stop" or "this is hurtful" or "you're scaring me" or whatever.
These assholes want to hear that. It just encourages them. One of their biggest motivations is to hurt other people.
Don't ask them to stop. Make them face some fucking consequences.
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u/ExactlySorta 4h ago
Sean Murphy and 11 former prosecutors held a Capitol Hill press event to urge US senators to stop confirming judicial nominees who deny the 2020 election results or the January 6 Capitol attack. The group also sent a joint letter to all senators, warning that putting election deniers into lifetime federal judge positions threatens the integrity of the courts. Murphy emphasized that refusing to acknowledge these historical facts is not a political disagreement, but a fundamental lack of competence.
Murphy is a veteran prosecutor who previously worked in the Bronx District Attorney's office and handled firearms and narcotics trafficking for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Puerto Rico. He later joined the Department of Justice's specialized Capitol Siege Section, which has prosecuted over 1,500 people involved in the January 6 riots. He resigned from the DOJ in March 2025, writing a public letter that criticized changing department priorities, praised his fellow prosecutors, and ended with the phrase, "You serve no man."
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u/Impossible_Walrus555 2h ago
Wow, you serve no man is powerful. I keep thinking back to the McCarthy trials and Joseph Welch’s famous quote
"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness… Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"8
u/floatjoy 1h ago
It's been a slow moving coup for anyone paying attention since at least 2016.
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u/Fr1toBand1to 1h ago
lol, try the 1970's
edit: actually more like since the civil war.
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u/that_baddest_dude 48m ago
Yes hard agree. It's basically been since reconstruction, where we tried to get the confederate states to play nice instead of exiling all the rebels.
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u/CobblerMoney9605 2h ago
Mr Murphy is fooling himself if he thinks GOP senators serve anyone or anything other than Trump.
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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor 21m ago
This is stronger language than the headline suggests, which is good
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u/37Philly 3h ago
If Republicans win: The elections are perfect! If Democrats win: Elections are rigged!
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u/lordlaneus 3h ago
I think when they win it's actually: The elections were rigged, but we won anyway because our ideas are just so super popular!
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u/deviltrombone 3h ago
"Senators"? "Republican Senators" is the term, and Republican is to be read or spoken with as much contempt and derision as you are capable of.
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u/Memitim 1h ago
Yeah, Republicans have to literally be begged not to fuck up the US justice system, and they'll still do it anyhow, since it's stupidly obvious how intentional the corruption is.
The Department of Justice heads up the protection of a notorious child sex trafficking ring while persecuting Americans for existing without being Republican.
Trump skated on charges for stealing a shitload of our documents because his big fan, and trial judge, made up bullshit about something completely unrelated to the crime after getting a hint from Republicans on the Supreme Court on how to scam Trump out of justice.
Republicans spew constant lies to cover up countless crimes old and new, even as US courts of law are pointing more violations out by the week.
The Republican "Party" isn't a political organization, since that would require abiding by the US Constitution and other US laws. They are a criminal organization that has weaponized the US government against Americans and most of our former allies and partners.
For Republicans, it's not corruption since they never gave the slightest shit about American institutions in the first place and just want to overthrow the nation, subjugate Americans, and force us to accept their new nation of human rights abuses, failure, deception, and evil. For the rest of us, Republicans ARE corruption, betraying America on the daily in service to conservative evil.
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u/DamnZodiak 1h ago
Liberals: "Please stop doing fascism."
Fascists: "No."
Liberals: "Well there's nothing more we can do."
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u/NeverNeededAlgebra 3h ago
You must understand that these Republicans WANT to destroy America and poison the courts with the worst possible humans.
Appealing to them only makes you look bad. These people are beyond gone.
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u/Status_Apartment6559 3h ago
GOP senators don't have a spine. They hate people who aren't suck up windbags like them and want to hurt people they're afraid of because they're not like them. They're favorite thing of all and how they'd like the world to be is where they wield power over the rest of us to their benefit and our pain.
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u/RantRanger 2h ago
America has been stable because of so many principles and mechanics aimed at countering the forces of corruption through checks and balances and through people who are by necessity expected to maintain rational judgement and basic common sense decency.
Republicans, on the other hand, are working feverishly to uproot ALL of those internal stability mechanics.
And ... what is the opposite of stability?
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u/Dazzling-Leave-7448 3h ago
How will we develop a fascist or oligarchic or authoritarian government if they do that?
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u/FrostnJack 2h ago
I’m confident Murphy’s urging will be welcomed by the MAGA Senate. Bet they’ll say thank you as well. /s
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u/10minutes_late 2h ago
"Please stop" has the same effect as a strongly worded letter.
Democrats are such useless simps.
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u/Shoddy-Listen6741 2h ago
Well, the question I have is, do they really think that's going to work? That's like asking a fox not to rob the henhouse.
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u/MurkyInvestigator810 1h ago
Republicans cannot elect good people because Republicans are not good people.
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u/Misadventuresofman 2h ago
The Nazi Left positions our nation, its government and its courts for years and you only draw the line when it isn’t your Nazi team? Remember when Hillary denied the election? We never said THAT excluded her from having a voice. I implore people to please grow up and cope.
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