DOJ steps in to replace Trump lawyers with their own in rape defamation case

[Dill]

(09-09-2020, 11:16 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/nyregion/donald-trump-jean-carroll-lawsuit-rape.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR28uyPCR6O8ngKS9zztuUV9HYesolkkNnREUip_k-u-ZAsDDL2OR7KwtSA

The DOJ argued that Trump was acting in his official capacity as POTUS when he denied ever knowing the accuser, claiming this gives them the ability to represent him as a government official.

In essence this means he could have access to greater protection from being deposed and they can prevent documents from being released prior to the election, all on the tax-payer dime. It also moves it from state court to federal court.

This is obviously without precedent and is particularly concerning because it involves actions he took decades before being President. It comes after repeated legal arguments that he is immune to civil suits because he is POTUS have been rejected.

Yow. Barr was maybe Trump's most consequential appointment.

That guy has extended Trump's power while throwing a so far impenetrable mantle of protection of his abuses over that power.

Has anything like this happened before in US gov. in the 20th-21st centuries?  Meese and Iran Contra? Still seems weak in comparison.