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Posted on 05/24/2019 8:35:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Hans von Spakovsky: Lock them up? Dems seeking to jail top Trump administration officials face big obstacles
Some congressional Democrats want nothing more than to hand Attorney General William Barr and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (among others) a “GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL” card like the ones you find in the game of Monopoly. But calls to lock them up are unjustified and uncalled for.
What would jailing two Cabinet members be based on?
The attorney general’s handling of the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been in accord with federal law, the federal rules of criminal procedure and Justice Department regulations.
There is no “cover-up” by President Trump going on, as wrongly claimed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Nor are Cabinet officials engaged in a cover-up.
Congressional leaders have all but 2 percent of the Mueller report, which was redacted to comply with grand jury secrecy rules and protect material that could threaten national security if disclosed.
And the Justice Department has even agreed to give the House Intelligence Committee highly confidential counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials from the Mueller investigation.
Mnuchin’s refusal to violate the right of a taxpayer (President Trump) to the privacy and confidentiality of his tax returns by handing them over to a congressional committee is also based on a credible and legitimate legal claim.
Numerous federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have held that the oversight and investigative authority of Congress is limited to inquiries that have a legitimate legislative purpose.
There is “no congressional power to expose for the sake of exposure,” said the Supreme Court in 1957 in Watkins v. U.S., a case involving a subpoena issued to a target of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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They will be indicted and arrested themselves.
Look for the Dems and their sycophantic press dogs to start running around like their hair is on fire this weekend and next week they will be jumping out windows...........
I’ve little doubt you’re right, The Rats have seriously overplayed their hand with the enemedia backing them to the hilt.
Loving every minute of it.
If they were to jail Barr, the shooting would start.
Yes. Like TRUTH.
Hopefully, Justice will reign and the seditionists and traitors will be held to strict account. These braying malignancies are getting VERY tiresome. Seeing them in orange jumpsuits...or at the end of a rope...would be a real plus for civil, law-respecting society.
BUMP!
Trump could start arresting real crooks like Pelosi as a shot across the bow.
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Conservatives have lawyers, too.
As much as I would love to agree with you I don’t think enough people care. But I do think the shooting may not be too far off.
I think it’ll happen when Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tenn, West Virginia, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, N Dakota, S Dakota, Missouri, and Iowa decide that enough is enough and band together to tell the Feds....F*ck Off
Then the feds will have a problem. Who do they send? What do they do? The majority of the country is against them.
So, while I may disagree with when it will happen, if this crap continues, it will happen. So, why not just get it over and done with?
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