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02102aam a22003375i 4500 001 20E41DC0A49B11EA9676382F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200602013355 008 200128s2020 dcu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020931895 020 $a 168451049X 020 $a 9781684510498 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Whitaker, Matthew, $e author. 245 10 $a Above the law / $c Matthew Whitaker. 263 $a 2005 264 1 $a Washington : $b Regnery Publishing, $c 2020. 300 $a 262 p. $c 24 cm. 520 $a Matthew Whitaker came to Washington to serve as chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and following Sessions&;s resignation, he was appointed Acting Attorney General of the United States. A former football player at the University of Iowa who had been confirmed by the Senate as a U.S. Attorney, Whitaker was devoted to the ideals of public service and the rule of law. But what he found when he led the Department of Justice on behalf of President Trump were bureaucratic elites with an agenda all their own. 520 $a The Department of Justice had been steered off course by a Deep State made up of Washington insiders who saw themselves as above the law. Recklessly inverting, bending, and breaking the law to achieve their own political goals, they relentlessly undermined the Constitution by flaunting the rightful authority of a President they despised. 520 $a Whitaker was an outsider with a desire to see justice done and democracy work. In his straightforward new book, Above the Law, he provides a stunning account of what he found in the swamp that is Washington 650 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Conservatism & Liberalism $x Conservatism & Liberalism 941 $a 6 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716031230.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721015521.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210622010923.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20201002011819.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20200730010940.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20200602020816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20E41DC0A49B11EA9676382F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search