Just call it "The People's Court" and get it over with.
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 ...
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.
Absolute powe is what these people seek, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
Could be a BB title.
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Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We are allowing all of this to happen.
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
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.
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...
This will never end until the MFs are voted out. 10 more months of this crap.
And I’m sure you remember that the there were more than 2 GOP house members who voted to impeach Trump.
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.
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.
Just call it "The People's Court" and get it over with.
Unconstitutional
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Think they care??
Some animals (dems, uniparty) are more equal than others.
How can I post a Substack article on the sidebar?
This is an important article. The stupid Dems have sown the wind.
btw I have been through Dumas - nice place!
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