Posted on 04/01/2022 3:57:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Is the January 6 Committee itself actually a criminal conspiracy?
Vox, the left-leaning “news explainer” site, published an article on Wednesday that accidentally makes the case that the January 6 Committee is knowingly violating the law while trying to show that Donald Trump knowingly violated the law.
Congress has subpoena power to seek documents and testimony for legislative purposes, not for criminal prosecution. Those who were awake during fifth-grade social studies know there’s such a thing as “separation of powers.” Congress makes the law. Another branch, the judiciary, interprets it in disputed cases. But someone else, the executive, enforces it.
These are some of the conditions of freedom.
The Vox article says the January 6 Committee is seeking documents and testimony to refer the former president to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
That’s not just trampling through the fields where the separation of powers—and possibly the grapes of wrath—are sown, but a violation of the civil rights of their targets, who are entitled to many protections under the Bill of Rights in criminal prosecutions.
When a state actor violates your civil rights, that itself is a crime and a civil cause of action.
It is a federal crime for two or more persons to conspire to violate a person’s civil rights. It is also a federal crime to deprive a person of his civil rights under the color of law.
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It is a set up hoax to do a political smear job on Trump and his supporters. Yes, it is done under color of law.
I really don’t think that the democrat brain trust, and its RINO enablers, have thought this all the way through. The pendulum is very likely to swing at least as far to the right as it has been jerked to the left.
We can only hope.
Florida governor De Santis’ election was incredibly close, especially considering the widely-held belief that Florida was ready for a Republican governor.
(Not to mention the perverted drug- and sexual- proclivities of his opponent).
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