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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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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I’m asking why this isn’t from the Babylon Bee (the most trusted name in news). And that I think the unprecedented power grab here is unconstitutional.


21 posted on 01/20/2022 4:55:14 PM PST by BipolarBob (BipolarBob's your uncle.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Absolute powe is what these people seek, and they will stop at nothing to get it.


22 posted on 01/20/2022 4:59:21 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: BipolarBob

Could be a BB title.


23 posted on 01/20/2022 5:01:14 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

send a freep-mail to Sidebar Moderator


24 posted on 01/20/2022 5:11:25 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.


25 posted on 01/20/2022 5:13:33 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

We are allowing all of this to happen.


26 posted on 01/20/2022 5:16:36 PM PST by ALASKA (RESIST)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
This is a good article.

In my opinion, Greenwald makes one big mistake: he keeps referring to it as Congress' committee; it is not.

This committee is entirely the creation of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is Pelosi's committee.

This distinction is important: In the two chambers of Congress, the only Constitutionally-defined leadership role is the Speaker of the House; the Senate has no such equivalent roles. In the Senate, majority and minority leaders are by rule only.

This is a significant distinction. This means that the 1/6 committee is entirely a creation of the House of Representatives, and more specifically of Pelosi (who refused to seat two Republican-named members). It cannot have any more powers than the House has to delegate.

I mention this because Greenwald suggests that this will result in an expansive power-grab for Congress, but so far, the Senate has been silent on this. Neither chamber speaks for the other, and a power grab by the House should not imply that the Senate is entitled to the same.

Since this committee is entirely the creation of Speaker Pelosi, it should be constrained by the limitations of the Speaker, and of the House of Representatives. I think people should make more of how this committee was formed, and the illegitimacy of an unconstitutional power grab from one of the creations of Pelosi.

-PJ

27 posted on 01/20/2022 5:19:14 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too
It cannot have any more powers than the House has to delegate.

Legally true, but dems care about the rules only when forced to. The fedsurrection committee itself is illegitimate and yet continues all kinds of outrages.

28 posted on 01/20/2022 5:33:35 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Our communist masters are on, what appears to be, an unstoppable roll...

This is just another declaration that adds several more links to the chains of tyranny that weigh us serfs down...

However, NBD!
Our communist masters know that the Aamerican sheeple will just roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Get used to it or do something significant about it...

29 posted on 01/20/2022 6:20:37 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

This will never end until the MFs are voted out. 10 more months of this crap.


30 posted on 01/20/2022 6:45:33 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Flick Lives

And I’m sure you remember that the there were more than 2 GOP house members who voted to impeach Trump.


31 posted on 01/20/2022 7:33:51 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Gaffer

IF we have balls there will be no perhaps.

Find out what Pelosi knew and when did she know it. Get Garland and Wray UNDER OATH. Question them in detail.

Look at Nanzi’s finances and where’d she get all that money. Investigate the trigger happy cop who shot Babitt. Subpoena Adam Schitt and how much classified information he leaked and to whom. We should make this a standing committee for the entire Congress and into the next.


32 posted on 01/20/2022 7:57:56 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

But they’re unusually disinterested in that guy we have on video encouraging insurrection, Ray Epps. And there are others.

It’s a kangaroo court.


33 posted on 01/20/2022 8:04:42 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Just call it "The People's Court" and get it over with.

34 posted on 01/20/2022 8:05:48 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BipolarBob

Unconstitutional
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Think they care??


35 posted on 01/20/2022 8:06:59 PM PST by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: Mariner; gitmo
Judicial review is a courtesy they extend when it’s convenient.

Some animals (dems, uniparty) are more equal than others.

36 posted on 01/21/2022 7:28:50 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Sidebar Moderator

How can I post a Substack article on the sidebar?


37 posted on 01/21/2022 7:32:22 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

This is an important article. The stupid Dems have sown the wind.

btw I have been through Dumas - nice place!


38 posted on 02/01/2022 10:53:29 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle
The Dumas in Texas I suppose?

Ding Dong Daddy played by a good band

39 posted on 02/01/2022 1:45:53 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: FlyingEagle
Willian Sadler, who also played Chesty Puller in The Pacific
40 posted on 02/01/2022 2:01:43 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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