Keith Ellison Quotes
Obstruction, basically, is whether you corruptly influence, obstruct or impede the administration of justice. You tell a chief law enforcement officer get, you know, back off my friend - or I hope you back off my friend and then when he doesn't, you fire him, clearly, that isn't - that is - fits the behavior of obstruction. The question of whether or not you can prosecute the president is open.
Ellison, Keith. Interview. MSNBC, 2017.
the CIA and the FBI This was not the only time where the CIA and the FBI impeded investigations of serious criminals. Both for example withheld evidence and lied to the Warren Commission investigating the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. The FBI for years helped Southern Law Enforcement officials cover up their and other racial murders and assaults. The CIA had a history of lying to a number of presidents. Each time a reorganization and house cleaning promised to change the agency, but it only works for a while. In the case of the Nazis, it started with our intelligence agencies trying to bring Nazi and Japanese scientists who had committed war crimes to the U. S. to help develop weapons against the Russians, who were also lying to their own people and bringing them to Russia to develop weapons for use against the West. Then Nazi spymasters were brought over and soon, any Nazi War criminal who would claim that he and information about the Communists of Eastern Europe or Russia. Finally, it was lower level Nazi concentration camp guards who had murdered inmates. At that time the intelligence agencies did not want American knowing that many war criminals were living well in the United States even though they were often wanted for crimes in Germany of other European countries. So they preferred that the investigations cease and the media not focus on the problem. There is no evidence that President Reagan knew about the investigation obstructions, however his assistant Pat Buchanan had a history of trying to stop of delay the deportation of Nazi War criminals who had lied on their applications to enter the United States. Many analysts noted a tendency toward anti-semitism in his personal and public life, and he was particularly unconcerned when the victims of the war crimes had been Russians or other European communists.
Early American law and procedure was English law and procedure.
Jackson was then a rising young military officer and politician. He had been found guilty of abusing his power to declare and implement martial law. He was a character. He bragged about his “respectful submission” to the law by paying the fine, but ignored the legal violations he committed to be sentenced to the fine.
Keith Maurice Ellison is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 30th Attorney General of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Ellison was the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district from 2007 to 2019. He also served as the titular Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2017 to 2018. In Congress, Ellison was a vice-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a Chief Deputy Whip. He also sat on the House Committee on Financial Services. Ellison was the first Muslim to be elected to Congress and the first African American representative from Minnesota.
