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Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as it Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits
Substack ^ | 1/20/2022 | glenn greenwald

Posted on 01/20/2022 4:17:45 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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The 1/6 Fedsurrection committee
1 posted on 01/20/2022 4:17:45 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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Not babylon Bee? Unconstitutional.


2 posted on 01/20/2022 4:18:37 PM PST by BipolarBob (BipolarBob's your uncle.)
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To: Chode; GOPJ; DoughtyOne; Cboldt

I wish I knew how to get the thread displayed on the sidebar, but I’m not sue Substack fits into such a category.


3 posted on 01/20/2022 4:22:23 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Where are all the right-wing legal groups rushing to defend them pro-bono?


4 posted on 01/20/2022 4:23:34 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Abandon all rights you who displease this regime.


5 posted on 01/20/2022 4:23:54 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: BipolarBob

Not sure what that means. I guess a sarcastic remark.


6 posted on 01/20/2022 4:24:25 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: SpaceBar

Or billionaires offering to help with expenses...


7 posted on 01/20/2022 4:26:19 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The Committee plotted with JPMorgan and its lawyer, former Obama AG Loretta Lynch, to obtain a citizen's financial records with no possibility of judicial review

Perhaps one day soon after November we, too shall be claiming 'absolute power in investigations' against 2020 election thiefs and Democrat politicians.

8 posted on 01/20/2022 4:26:41 PM PST by Gaffer
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No the press will say they are “partisan witch hunts’ and our side will cower and slobber. And if they start them, they get no publicity.


9 posted on 01/20/2022 4:30:21 PM PST by Luke21
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Any reciprocal action by a upcoming Republican-controlled congress will be immediately shot down by Leftist judges and the U.S. Supreme Court.


10 posted on 01/20/2022 4:31:01 PM PST by Gnome1949
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Just remember Democraps, payback is a B!!(%. You’re not going to like it when the tables are turned on you.


11 posted on 01/20/2022 4:31:16 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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Perhaps one day soon after November we, too shall be claiming 'absolute power in investigations' against 2020 election thiefs and Democrat politicians.

Agree. I think that was one of the substack comments.

12 posted on 01/20/2022 4:33:05 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Gnome1949

Not to mention the GOP itself. Things seem to be changing at the state and local levels, I hope.


13 posted on 01/20/2022 4:36:05 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“no possibility of judicial review”

Congress is a peer to the judiciary, at least.

Judicial review is a courtesy they extend when it’s convenient.


14 posted on 01/20/2022 4:37:24 PM PST by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The Liz Chaney gang are idiots.

When the repubs become the majority, and that will be very soon, the dims have set precedents that will make it easy for the repubs to investigate them in the same way; that is with literally no restraints.

Most will end up out of government and some will end up in jail.


15 posted on 01/20/2022 4:43:08 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: Mariner

Some ideologies are more equal than others.


16 posted on 01/20/2022 4:43:43 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Committee was not even formed within the rules of the House, thus it has no authority.


17 posted on 01/20/2022 4:44:42 PM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: old curmudgeon
FBI activity reported near home of Rep. Henry Cuellar
18 posted on 01/20/2022 4:46:35 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The people also have absolute power, they just don’t have balls to do what needs to be done.


19 posted on 01/20/2022 4:47:39 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Greenwald is not exaggerating here: “At the hearing, the committee’s lawyers essentially repeated the same argument they advanced in their legal brief: namely, that none of the legal safeguards imposed on the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to guard against abuse of power apply to this Congressional committee, which therefore enjoys virtually absolute power to do what it wants.”

The committee claims unrestricted power to compel the testimony of any person, to demand access to his private “papers and effects”, and to demand that third parties supply them with anyone’s private documents without even informing that person.

That’s a big deal. Surprising that there isn’t more discussion of this. This isn’t quite Committee of Public Safety level, but it’s a big step in that direction.


20 posted on 01/20/2022 4:50:58 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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