The failed Assange extradition got me thinking.

If I wanted to make it hard for certain treaty partners to extradite criminals to the US for trial, one way to do that would be to reinstate the federal death penalty and start executing a lot of prisoners.

For anyone unfamiliar, Barr’s DOJ reinstated federal executions in July, 2019.

Since then, the speed at which they have been pushing these cases through, and the corners they have cut in order to execute these prisoners quickly, has been ugly and hard to explain. https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1341916122652712961

Assange was arrested in the UK in April, 2019. Barr reinstated the death penalty three months later, in July.

The extradition ruling stated that we have 15 days to appeal the decision.

Now it appears that Mexico is offering asylum to Assange.

h/t @AliciaHopkins https://twitter.com/rodpac/status/1346115272802004992

A couple of months ago - on Nov 18 - Bill Barr dropped a major US case against a former Mexican General who was involved in transnational drug trafficking.

He reportedly did so without consulting senior DEA staff, and the move came as a surprise to everyone involved. https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1329575760932216832