Posted on 01/20/2022 4:17:45 PM PST by 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.
On November 22, the 1/6 Committee served a subpoena on Taylor Budowich — a former spokesman for the Trump campaign who never worked for the U.S. Government — that requested a wide range of documents as well as his deposition testimony. On December 14, Budowich voluntarily complied by handing over a large amount of his personal records, and then, on December 22, he flew to Washington at his own expense and submitted to questioning. There is no suggestion that Budowich was engaged in any violence or other illegal acts at the Capitol on January 6. Their only interest in this private citizen is his connection to the Trump campaign and his stated view that he believed the 2020 election was marred by fraud.
After he furnished the committee with those documents and then testified, Budowich learned from others that the committee was issuing subpoenas directly to the banks used by other individuals for their personal accounts. He thus requested that his lawyer notify his own bank, JPMorgan Chase, that he would object to their cooperation with any subpoena without first providing notice to him so that he can have time to seek a legal ruling in court.
(Excerpt) Read more at greenwald.substack.com ...
Not babylon Bee? Unconstitutional.
I wish I knew how to get the thread displayed on the sidebar, but I’m not sue Substack fits into such a category.
Where are all the right-wing legal groups rushing to defend them pro-bono?
Abandon all rights you who displease this regime.
Not sure what that means. I guess a sarcastic remark.
Or billionaires offering to help with expenses...
Perhaps one day soon after November we, too shall be claiming 'absolute power in investigations' against 2020 election thiefs and Democrat politicians.
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.
Any reciprocal action by a upcoming Republican-controlled congress will be immediately shot down by Leftist judges and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Just remember Democraps, payback is a B!!(%. You’re not going to like it when the tables are turned on you.
Agree. I think that was one of the substack comments.
Not to mention the GOP itself. Things seem to be changing at the state and local levels, I hope.
“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.
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.
Some ideologies are more equal than others.
Committee was not even formed within the rules of the House, thus it has no authority.
The people also have absolute power, they just don’t have balls to do what needs to be done.
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.
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