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Like many others in despair at the start of the Trump regime, I searched my mind to discern the ultimate governmental backstop against the expected depredations that Trump would inflict on the traditional American political ethic. I felt that only the courts and the Dept. of Justice had enough backbone to prevent full-blown autocracy from metastasizing in our government. However, the appointment of AG Wm. Barr and the raft of federal judgeship appointees only deepened my depression.

Now the J6 hearings have brightened my feelings by revealing the integrity of the late inning DOJ leadership in the hour of their greatest challenge.

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