Opinion | Jake Maccoby: The attorney general should serve the people. AG Barr serves only President Trump. - NBCNewsTHINK
on his attempts to have the foreign government investigate Joe Biden’s family — demonstrating that Trump, at least, expected the willing participation of his attorney general in an international shakedown. Even as Barr's actions in the Ukraine scandal were being scrutinized this week, heshielding Trump’s tax returns from legal scrutiny in New York state.
Americans should know that this behavior is not normal. During the Obama administration, I served at the Department of Justice with conscientious men and women who had worked under both Republican and Democratic leaders. In some cases, I knew their party affiliations; in many others, I didn’t. It would have been unthinkable for anyone to bring personal politics to bear on their work, or to act as a hired stooge for political authorities., “I appointed you, but you don’t serve me.
For political appointees like me who had worked on the Obama presidential campaign, there was a sense of sanctity about justice — about ensuring that opportunity and equality could be made real for communities too often let down and left behind. I was moved by the women and men who made that effort their life’s work, and inspired each time I walked through the entrance of the Robert F. Kennedy building, where the stone etching reads, “The place of justice is a hallowed place.
The Department of Justice is the only Cabinet agency named for an ideal. In a country that sets its course through lofty values and high principles, it speaks to what is best about us, what connects us to one another and what inspires us to build a more perfect union.Jake Maccoby served as chief speechwriter for Attorney General Eric Holder and is the founder of JDMaccoby Strategies, LLC.
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