Project 2025: Dissecting Its Lies to Justify Weaponizing the DOJ
And put a 34-times convicted felon in charge (Scroll to the end to listen)
Now that the presumptive Republican nominee for President is a convicted felon 34 times over, it is imperative that American voters seriously ponder what a Republican win and the implementation of Project 2025 could mean for our rule of law. We start with how Project 2025’s adherents are undermining the rule of law, especially within the Department of Justice.
Ordered liberty is at risk when our citizens lack physical safety, when career criminals do not fear the law (!!! - ALW), when foreign cartels move narcotics and illegal aliens into our nation at will, and when political leaders call citizens “domestic terrorists” for exercising their constitutional rights. The Department of Justice—in partnership with state and local partners—must recommit in both word and deed to protecting public safety.
Project 2025, page 548
In this newsletter, I explained what Christo-fascist Republicans mean when they call for ordered liberty.
An excerpt from that newsletter:
The Supreme Court mentioned ordered liberty 16 times when they overturned Roe v Wade. (Source: Portside) To a Christian Nationalist, it is no paradox to use the term ordered liberty to defend and expand Second Amendment rights while removing a woman’s right to bodily autonomy. Ordered liberty equals God’s law. Ordered liberty equals theocracy. (See “What Is a Christian Nationalist HERE.)
Whose public safety does Project 2025 propose to protect? I break down their paragraph of recommendations and insert my own commentary below.
The evidence shows that the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice has failed to protect law-abiding citizens and has ignored its most basic obligations. It has become at once unserious and dangerously politicized.
Project 2025, page 548
Here’s how these claims have been echoed by Republicans since 45’s 34-count felony conviction.
“Make no mistake about it, I’m here because of crooked Joe Biden,” Trump claimed on May 28 in remarks to the press before closing arguments in the case. - Source: FactCheck.org
House Speaker Mike Johnson: “A shameful day in American history” and the charges were “purely political.”
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance: “A disgrace to the judicial system.”
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican: “A defeat for Americans who believe in the critical legal tenet that justice is blind.”
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham: “This verdict says more about the system than the allegations.”
South Dakota Sen. John Thune: “Politically motivated from the beginning, and today’s verdict does nothing to absolve the partisan nature of this prosecution.”
Source for Johnson, Vance, Scalise, Graham, and Thune: AP
In the wake of 45’s conviction, Republicans openly attacked our judicial system and rule of law. They repeated the lie that Biden’s Department of Justice was behind the New York State prosecution. And they used Project 2025’s allegation of partisan politics at DOJ.
Prosecution and charging decisions are infused with racial and partisan political double standards.
Project 2025, page 548
A couple of weeks ago, CNN ran an excellent piece debunking this claim. The article provides a lengthy list of alleged malfeasance that should embarrass Republicans and Democrats in equal measure.
Immigration laws are ignored.
Project 2025, page 548
The FBI harasses protesting parents (branded “domestic terrorists” by some partisans) while working diligently to shut down politically disfavored speech on the pretext of its being “misinformation” or “disinformation.” A department that prosecutes FACE Act cases while ignoring dozens of violent attacks on pregnancy care centers and/or the coordinated violation of laws that prohibit attempts to intimidate Supreme Court Justices by parading outside of their homes has clearly lost its way.
Project 2025, page 548
According to FactCheck.org, Attorney General Merrick Garland never called so-called Parents’ Rights protesters domestic terrorists. The article delves deeper into the origin of this claim.
Though P2025 decries the removal of social media misinformation and disinformation, the Supreme Court seems poised to let the federal government continue to engage in this practice. Readers shouldn’t breathe a sigh of relief, though. In the hands of a Christo-fascist Republican administration, misinformation and disinformation will be anything that contradicts, challenges, or exposes regime corruption.
A department that has twice engaged in covert domestic election interference and propaganda operations—the Russian collusion hoax in 2016 and the Hunter Biden laptop suppression in 2020—is a threat to the Republic.
Project 2025, page 548
FactCheck.org has an extensive archive debunking the Russian collusion hoax talking point in its entirety. Snopes.com has more on Hunter Biden’s purported laptop.
BUT NEVER MIND ALL THAT!
This basis of grievance and lies is how Project 2025 justifies remaking the Department of Justice in its own Christo-fascist image. As in other authoritarian regimes, it strives to define the rule of law to prosecute and punish perceived enemies and allow leaders and their cronies immunity for their crimes. Tomorrow and Thursday, we will delve into DOJ, FBI, and White House Counsel changes P2025 recommends.
Calls to Action to Keep P2025 From Ruining YOUR Life
Check your voter registration or register to vote: I Will Vote
Support Democratic campaigns directly in competitive races: Blue24
Support earlyworm’s 2024 Giving Guide: earlyworm
Report a Project 2025 incident: Not On Our Watch
Mail postcards to swing-state voters: Postcards to Swing States
Thanks for introducing me to the term “ordered justice.” I’d not heard it before. Scary shit!