The Republican leadership (click here) struggled to maintain a unified stance against the nomination of Judge Garland, pictured above meeting with Senator Pat Leahy, the Vermont Democrat. But the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, enforced discipline, saying that the parties “simply disagree” and that “as a result, we logically act as a check and balance” on Mr. Obama.
The current Attorney General Merrick Garland has a chance to right the wrongs of deeply imbedded corruption. I believe that is what kept him from a Supreme Court seat. McConnell is highly corrupt in most of his dealings, including those with China and his spouse's family company and with Russian oligarchs welcomed with open arms into Kentucky.
I believe the corruption in Michigan is deeply embedded and while the new state legislature is a majority of Democrats, it is time to look at the entire picture of what occurred in Flint. 2010 was a cake walk for Republicans after the election of President Barak Obama, the first African-American President. The Democrats were able to pass reforms into the health care industry and it was a tipping point for Republicans. The Republican corruption ran strong in media, especially when realizing "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" is standing strong and helping millions of Americans.
The degree of which blatant corruption exists under the radar is vital to democracy. Corruption thrives in government environments that allow silence to win out over the truth. When Snyder entered office in 2011, the state legislature changed the "Emergency Manager" laws. The Governor was given unprecedented power to override any freely elected city government. There were many besides Flint and with that leverage Snyder threw open the flood gates of corruption to allow his friends to benefit from this power within Michigan. Flint received the worst of the Governor's wrath and people were poisoned with known filthy water in the Flint River.
The path that lead to poisoning resulting in deaths and maiming of children as well as miscarriages must be accepted in the official record of the truth. The entanglements of long standing corrupt government practices in the cover-up for over a year until it went public on the Rachel Maddow Show must be part of an official record. The further corruption that includes a one man grand jury in the aftermath of the poisoning must also be accepted as the truth and permanently recorded in an official record.
I believe Michigan is incapable of cleaning up the corruption and the Department of Justice must engage in a complete review of this tragedy. The Republican corruption of our democracy must stop and it must stop now.
December 9, 2022
By Ed WhiteFlint - A judge dismissed criminal charges (click here) against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water crisis, months after the state Supreme Court said indictments returned by a one-person grand jury were invalid.
Snyder, a Republican who left office in 2019, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty. He was the first person in state history to be charged for alleged crimes related to service as governor.
Snyder also is the eighth person to have a Flint water case thrown out after the Supreme Court's unanimous June opinion.
Genesee County Judge F. Kay Behm signed the order Wednesday, a day after the U.S. Senate approved her nomination to become a federal judge in eastern Michigan.
“The charges against (Snyder) were not properly brought and must be dismissed at this time,” Behm wrote....
