"Yup, you got an offshore bank account for your cut."
Posted on 09/18/2024 5:34:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As an old congressional investigator, some things really bother me. Dishonesty at the Justice Department is one. Attorney General Merrick Garland is a disgrace – and danger. He opposes textual interpretations of the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. He resents individual rights, and how they limit government power to suppress rights – which is why they were framed. Now, he disavows another core principle, called “separation of powers.”
To be clear, separating powers among those who make our laws, administer them, and interpret them is ancient. It is not a MAGA idea. It goes back to the French scholar Montesquieu.
Montesquieu realized concentrated power is inherently dangerous, something John Locke before him and conservatives after him believed, from Edmund Burke and our Founders to virtually all presidents before FDR – who learned the hard way, trying to pack the Court. Diffuse power is safer.
This is why we have three “co-equal” branches of government, at the Federal and State levels, to check and balance each other’s actions, in this way to assure no one branch will abuse power, and we will never suffer the crushing effects of a one-party government.
Now comes the latest Merrick Garland abuse, piled on a mountain of Biden-Harris abuses, of constitutional process. They have amassed an impressive record for ignoring constitutional guarantees, Supreme Court decisions, and federal statutes against bribery, election interference, misuse of surveillance, insider trading, mandates, harassment, and pernicious prosecution.
In truth, no one is safe if the nation’s Justice Department is not fenced – or a White House permits the abuse of citizen rights. Unaccountable power is ultimately fatal. To date, attempts to reestablish accountability are unavailing, and the Justice Department is riddled with political bias.
Subpoenas, requests for testimony, documents, and traditional inter-branch cooperation, along with respect for unambiguous Supreme Court decisions, are ignored, while political opponents, parents at school board meetings, pro-life protestors, opposing candidates at all levels are boldly persecuted. Merrick Garland, and those ideologically behind centralizing power, are shameless.
Now comes a fresh revelation – one that should push any believer in this Republic, in the separation of powers, checks, and balances, and a sense of accountability – to the limit. Garland’s Justice Department not only suppressed documents tied to unlawful acts but surveilled congressional staffers – of both parties – investigating him. Knock me over with a feather, they have no limits.
That is right, the latest documents – uncontestable – indicate the Biden-Harris Department Justice under Garland surveilled mobile phones, emails, and digital activities of congressional members and staff investigating the Justice Department, including Senator Grassley’s own oversight staff.
The enormity of this breach of trust, and how it violates basic norms and precepts, like separation of powers, privacy, and citizen freedom from persecution by centralized government is hard to overstate. What Merrick Garland, obviously with tacit White House consent, did was abuse all Americans.
So, here is another revelation – one Kamilla Harris will duck, never address, just as she never addressed her personal or professional past, border czar record, pro-drug, pro-illegal alien, anti-Supreme Court, pro-overspending, pro-inflation, anti-energy, anti-parental rights record.
She will not be questioned on this, and will never have to answer for “spying on Congress,” but they did it. Specifically, the members and staff who were investigating DOJ violations were surveilled.
The shock should be an earthquake – the Rictor Scale hit above 9, or “extreme” – because this kind of action destroys the best system, hobbles democracy, and corrupts a Republic, Constitution, and rights. But watch … the media will cover for Marxism, and the whistleblowers will be harassed into silence.
That is where we are, why this election is not only important but absolutely vital. Truth is not just ignored but displaced. Those who seek power are abusing it … to keep it. This is new territory.
A complaint in federal court indicated that “the requested records are likely to show a startling failure by DOJ to respect the long-established separation of powers in the United States Constitution,” including efforts “to secretly surveil various congressional staff members… engaged in oversight of the DOJ …”
Is there any hope? Yes, there is – there always is – at the ballot box and in court. Despite the DOJ keeping unconstitutional surveillance of congressional oversight staff for six years, time is up. The card house Biden-Harris-Garland built, dishonorable and unconstitutional, is on its way down. As an old congressional oversight staffer, glad to see it – and hopeful we can end that kind of abuse.
This should be shocking, yet I am not surprised at all.
BTTT
The Late, Great Justice Antonin Scalia said it isn’t the Bill of Rights that keeps us free, it is Separation of Power.
They thought Edgar Hoover abused privilege and power. At least he was fervently anti-Communist and didn’t indulge in partisan warfare with all the ammunition he’d amassed.
Garland, on the other hand, seems to wake each day seeing himself as America’s literal Arbiter of Justice with wisdom surpassing all three branches of government.
He goes beyond the concept of “act and ask forgiveness later”. He acts as if he’s God beyond any need of forgiving.
Manic Goblin is an old creeper. Makes Hoover and Bobby Kennedy look like St. Peter and St. Paul by comparison.
Expect even worse abuses-——Harris is getting more desperate.
All the efforts to sideline Trump have failed......
including two assassination attempts (to date).
Harris knows if she doesn’t win this, she’s kaput. Democrats will
blame her for everything.....not to mention what Trump might do.
GARLAND IS PURE EVIL!
Democrats will blame her for everything.
Yet the party placed her in office who made that judgement.
Democrat party proves how stupid they are it’s why they always do the dodge and blame others for their cause of chaos.
Look at all the dangers they have place America in inexcusable.
[[Montesquieu realized concentrated power is inherently dangerous]]
Democrats know this too, which is why they are trying to consolidate and concentrate their power over the other branches. They now ignore Supreme Court rulings, and do whatever they wish. They ignore congress and its laws and rules as well. Democrats are waging a hostile takeover of this nation, and they are successful because they either own or controll all of the real power in the nation, ie
Social media, the MSM, police, fbi, ss, courts, judges, (most, not all), blm, lgbtq, and antifa do their dirty work, soros $$, etc
With control of those, they can ignore the sc, ignore congress and its laws, refuse to enforce the law when it benefits their agenda, enforce their own law when they want to fa,sely imprison their opposition, etc. They can beat people into submission or ruin them at will.
They are attacking the first amendment by going after what they call “disinformation “ (ie, anything they don’t like the sound of). They have repeatedly said that “noone is guaranteed an unconditional right to free speech”- and they mean that and they mean to take away the right to say whatever one wants, using the faulty excuse that “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater”.
The Biden DOJ recklessly disrespected the long-established separation
of government powers in pursuit of its own self serving political agenda.
Biden secretly surveilled various congressional staff
members who were engaged in oversight of the Biden DOJ.
What Obama stated about Biden is true nothing he can’t....up.
That's obvious. What is also obvious is that are system makes accountability in government near impossible.
Obama didnt select Biden as his VP for his competence
but b/c Biden’s son Hunter was a global bagman.
I’ve never seen that spelling variation before.
Being shocked, but unsurprised is well stated.
Obama didn’t select Biden
Agree the party does all the selecting Hunter was a big fish for them Obama Joe and Harris all take orders from them or they go away as Joey did.
Moscow would be proud of the party as Xi would club members?.
"Yup, you got an offshore bank account for your cut."
Indeed
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