Just call it "The People's Court" and get it over with.
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.
Perhaps one day soon after November we, too shall be claiming 'absolute power in investigations' against 2020 election thiefs and Democrat politicians.
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.
“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.
Committee was not even formed within the rules of the House, thus it has no authority.
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.
Absolute powe is what these people seek, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
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
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.
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.
This is an important article. The stupid Dems have sown the wind.
btw I have been through Dumas - nice place!