Barbara McQuade
speaker
424 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Feb
Barbara McQuade’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Our system of comity, C-O-M-I-T-Y, is that we respect the rights of states and local government to do their work.
And so an attorney general or a Manhattan district attorney who is doing their work and then find themselves targeted by the Justice Department for their work is a very disturbing use of federal power to squash state and local power.
And I think that is something that should concern all of us.
You know, there were times when the tables were turned and we saw Democrats who favored the use of federal power, and it was Republicans who supported state power.
But if you were to ask the framers of our Constitution, their view of this, they would say, well, the 10th Amendment reserves powers for the states.
That is what they are supposed to do.
And so this is a violation of
our constitutional separation of powers, not just among the three federal branches of government, but between the allocation of power between the federal government and state governments.
The people of New York elected Letitia James to be their attorney general.
The people of Manhattan elected Alvin Bragg to be their district attorney.
And so to attack them for their work is a very dangerous thing to that balance of power.
Yeah, one would hope that a person with integrity and who is doing the job they were elected to do would move forward without fear or favor.
That's a phrase prosecutors are fond of using, right?
Without fear or favor.
But when you see your colleagues around the country, not just criticized, but targeted for criminal investigation, and in the case of Jim Comey, indicted, wow, that makes you think twice, right?
Because nobody ever gets in trouble for something they don't do.
And so I remember that hearing one of the greatest criticisms you could hear of one FBI agent of another was to say he follows the principle of he who does nothing does nothing wrong.
That's not the job.
The job is to hold people accountable when they violate the law.
And you have to be brave.
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