Boston Globe
“We’re well past the stage of saying, ‘Well, they don’t know how to do their jobs,’” Congressman Bill Keating, a Cape Cod Democrat, said in an interview. “This is the way, evidently, they want to do the job.” We used to have a country where Congress would sometimes defend the rule of law, and hold the president accountable for excesses this awful and deadly. But the GOP majority is showering Trump and his hateful goons with endless blank checks. Federal authorities stymie investigations into the shootings, whisking away the triggermen and refusing to name them, compromising potential crime scenes, making spurious claims that a dead driver tried to kill them, and refusing to hand over evidence for months, if at all. Local authorities find themselves begging, or suing, for basic information.