BARR HAS CORRUPTED THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
William Barr has no allegiance to the American people and serves only Donald Trump. He has politicized and corrupted the Department of Justice and is not fit to be Attorney General. He should be impeached, but at the least his acts of political interference and misuse of the DOJ must be investigated. It’s also up to Congress to lead against the systemic racism in law enforcement that Barr denies and refuses to address. Congress must pass Representative Pressley and Omar’s resolution to condemn police brutality.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
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SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
William Barr has no allegiance to the American people and serves only Donald Trump. He has politicized and corrupted the Department of Justice and is not fit to be Attorney General. He should be impeached, but at the least his acts of political interference and misuse of the DOJ must be investigated. It’s also up to Congress to lead against the systemic racism in law enforcement that Barr denies and refuses to address. Congress must pass Representative Pressley and Omar’s resolution to condemn police brutality.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE:
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BACKGROUND:
William Barr serves as Trump’s personal defense attorney and has politicized and corrupted the DOJ to serve his political agenda.
He also actively protects the racist law enforcement system that allows the brutalization of black and brown people.
A few examples – He:
- attacked, misrepresented, and redacted the Mueller report attempting to support Trump’s claim of exoneration.
- attacked the report of the independent Inspector General who found no bias in the Mueller report, then supported Trump when he fired him.
- announced DOJ investigations into those who investigated Trump, promoting false right-wing conspiracy theories.
- ordered a lenient sentence for one of Trump’s convicted political allies and halted the investigation of another.
- refused to testify or provide information to Congress after his department withheld the whistleblower complaint.
- denied the existence of systemic racism in law enforcement and refused to investigate it.
- warned communities to show proper respect for law enforcement or “find themselves without the police protection they need.”
- violently suppressed Americans protesting the murder of George Floyd with a militarized force that he assembled, some of whom wore no insignia or ID.
Barr is unfit to hold the office of Attorney General, and his misuse of the DOJ must be investigated by Congress.