Posted on 07/11/2022 7:56:13 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Biden Justice Department has yet to take action against abortion extremists menacing pro-life clinics and members of the Supreme Court. Republican lawmakers are resolved to hold leadership accountable after the midterm elections—even if that means impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), who is in line to take over the House Judiciary Committee if Republicans prevail in November, didn’t take a Garland impeachment inquiry off the table in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon. Jordan cited a range of alleged misconduct, from failure to enforce black-letter law to protect clinics and justices, to secret collusion with leftwing groups opposed to parents protesting woke curricula changes.
"That'll be a decision that will be made by the entire conference," Jordan said of an impeachment push.
The oversight planning is a response to conflict roiling the country following the High Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Pro-abortion protesters tried running Justice Brett Kavanaugh out of a downtown Washington, D.C., steakhouse on Wednesday night, weeks after a gunman came to his home planning to assassinate him. And the militant pro-abortion network Jane’s Revenge has claimed responsibility for more than a dozen acts against pro-life clinics and churches, ranging from vandalism to fire-bombing.
It is a federal crime to demonstrate outside of a judge’s home with intent to influence deliberations. Regular pro-abortion demonstrations outside the homes of the conservative justices seem to fit that bill exactly. The Justice Department has taken no action against protesters as of this writing. Local police told inquiring neighbors that federal agencies are declining to enforce the judicial anti-picketing law, according to a Fox News report.
Jordan wonders whether the Justice Department and the White House are following a template.
"The key question we would like to find out, if in fact the American people put us in control, is was this similar to what happened with parents at school board meetings? In other words, was the Biden White House working with some outside left wing influence groups, and also then communicating that information to the DOJ?" Jordan said.
The Ohio Republican added that a dozen whistleblowers have quietly come forward to speak about the Biden Justice Department and FBI matters, though he declined to get into specifics.
The Free Beacon was first to report that White House aides colluded with the National School Boards Association to push the Justice Department into investigating parents protesting critical race theory and gender ideology as domestic terrorists.
It’s also a federal crime to attack or destroy houses of worship and clinics for pregnant women. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who enforces those laws, has derided pro-life clinics in the past. While Biden administration officials have shared intelligence assessments with clerics and local law enforcement, the administration has yet to make even a single arrest or indictment related to dozens of attacks on churches and pro-life crisis pregnancy centers.
There have been almost 50 documented instances of violence, vandalism, or intimidation at houses of worship and pro-life clinics since the Dobbs draft leaked, according to a June report from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
House Republicans will be better positioned than their Senate counterparts to force Biden officials to cooperate if they stonewall investigators. Senate committee rules incentivize, but do not require, bipartisan cooperation when issuing subpoenas. The House has no such constraints. And House committees have historically taken the lead on compelled testimony and sharing of evidence.
Republican senators are putting public pressure on federal law enforcement to take immediate action. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray in June requesting a briefing on the bureau’s efforts to combat pro-abortion extremism.
"Our law enforcement officers are obliged to duly enforce the laws of our country—not just those that are politically suitable to the current administration," Grassley’s letter reads.
"We're usually the tip of the spear in terms of shining a light on issues and embarrassing an agency into compliance," a Republican Senate aide told the Free Beacon. "The more attention they get for ignoring congressional oversight, the worse it looks for them. And that's a pretty effective tactic for us."
Outside groups are also pressing GOP lawmakers for accountability. Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project, said there is ample reason to remove Garland from office. Davis was nominations chief for Grassley during the Kavanaugh confirmation and led the outside support team for Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation.
"When Republicans reclaim the House in January, they must impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland," Davis told the Free Beacon. "There must be consequences for his dangerous dereliction of duty that has led to highly dangerous attacks on the Supreme Court of the United States."
The really sad part is even after they have betrayed their voters, they still get re-elected, just because they wear an R jersey.
Flimsey Grahamnesty had voted for amnesty THREE times by 2014 and has been re-elected TWICE since.
Micro Rubio and John Hoeven are up this year and will probably be re-elected to vote for amnesty again.
No joke. I would love to see the Republicants go the same route as the Whig Party.
The dark side is at the local level too. That’s where they shut out the conservatives and establish the RINOs.
Cowards, no; collaborators, yes.
And the WFB is just as complicit with its baloney headline.
While the Lizard was “removed” from her formal leadership position, as a practical (de facto) matter she is still seen as a party functionary. Despite her outrageous antipathy toward Trump and her open support for Democrats the GOP still embraces her.
Don’t worry, McCarthy and McConnell will tamp down any enthusiastic Republicans that want to pursue justice after the big red ripple.
How do you get them out?
McConnell demonstrated how they shut out conservatives back when he was re-elected as Senator.
“Four months out from a crucial election and the Republicans still have no idea what they’re going to do. Pathetic.”
When you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. Mitch McConnell rejected a new “Contract for America” campaign, preferring the typical RINO “we are not as bad as the Democrats” campaign with no promises to the voters and plenty of back door contracts with the donor base. He and the other GOP power brokers want to go back to the pre-Trump campaign and rule practices.
GOP voters are completely disgusted with Democrat rule and the weakness of the Republican Party. The conventional wisdom is they will turn out in numbers to vote Republican (as usual) in protest, without any promises from GOP politicians. They may be fooled if a sizable percentage of the voter base is turned off and simply decided voting for the lesser of two evils is evil so conservatives stay home.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are highly dissatisfied with the Biden administration and certainly middle class and working class Democrats are feeling economic pain. Will they turn out in mass to support Democrat candidates?
The wild card seems to be the January 6 commission. Will it refer charges against Trump to Merrick Garland and will the DOJ indict Trump a month before the election. If so, will the GOP in unison condemn the move or will Lindsay Graham, McConnell, McCarthy, Romney, and others equivocate or stay silent as they have with the January protesters denied rights of due process? If Trump is arrested, and the GOP leadership doesn’t express unified outrage, the conservative voter base may just stay home and hand the Democrats an undeserved supermajority in Congress.
With a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, and a majority in the House, court packing, impeachment of conservative Supreme Court members, and even a suspension of the Constitution under a presidential emergency order, are possible. Articles are popping up in publications and in televised new stories claiming the Constitution is inherently racist and obsolete. Communist dictatorships almost always begin with suspension of the old Constitution under emergency decree and its replacement with a progressive modern constitution giving absolute power to the tyrants who have seized power.
More like “because of” rather than “despite”.
Because 145 of them are just like her.
will result in McCarthy as Speaker
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In actuality Paul Ryan will be the de facto Speaker. McCarthy is just his errand boy.
Of course they know what they’re going to do. They’ll continue to collaborate with the other half of the Uniparty.
Who in DC actually want the existence of the US?
Senators are much harder to unseat than House members.
We proved with Eric Cantor that House members, even sitting Majority leaders, can be taken out in the primary.
The Republicans have an EPIC opportunity to finally take charge and do what’s necessary to halt the leftist agenda.
This really could be a defining moment for the party.
But I have zero confidence that they want to lead and even less confidence that they will do anything to advance the conservative agenda.
The GOP simply is what it is. A pathetic excuse for a party.
They’ll continue to collaborate with the other half of the Uniparty.
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that you can take to the bank!
That is, until people start picketing/protesting in front of Kagan's or Sotomeyer's house...
Win first.....
I like Jordan. I suspect most of us like Jordan. He is going to have the most important and potentially powerful chairmanship in congress come January.
I fully expect to be very disappointed because he will NOT buck McCarthy.
Jordan is not MTG and it pains me to say it but most of us will probably view him much as we now view Trey Gowdy. A great wordsmith who could make us cheer in a hearing but when it comes to action - all hat and no cattle.
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