Posted on 06/01/2025 3:45:32 PM PDT by Libloather
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the Trump administration of “clearly trying to intimidate Democrats” after federal agents handcuffed one of Rep. Jerry Nadler’s aides in his Manhattan office.
The Department of Homeland Security stormed into Nadler’s (D-NY) Big Apple office last week and alleged that his staff was “harboring rioters.” Jeffries (D-NY) largely refrained from delving too much into the specifics of the altercation, but slammed the administration.
“I think the administration is clearly trying to intimidate Democrats, in the same way that they’re trying to intimidate the country,” Jeffries told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Jeffries previously dubbed the arresting of Congressional Democrats a “red line,” but caveated that Dems will decide how to respond “in a time, place, and manner of our choosing.”
“Let me make clear that the House is a separate and co-equal branch of government, the Congress,” he added earlier in the interview. “We don’t work for Donald Trump. We don’t work for the administration.”
“We work for the American people.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul similarly ripped into the dramatic encounter.
“Unbelievable. Unbelievable, that’s my reaction to it,” Hochul told The Post Sunday.
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Photo.....His plan should have been to be inside the office so there would be absolutely no room for the aide or the agents to get in. They’d eventually retreat.
Aide #1: You worked for Buttigieg and then for Nadler. Don’t you know how to get around him?
Aide #2: I do. It’s just a much longer trip.
Oh. Left-wing RINOs, then, who only pretend to be on the right to get elected.
On the list of 45 communist goals for the USA, goal number 15 is “Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States”. I’d say that the “both” part was accomplished quite thoroughly.
“Clearly trying to intimidate”?
Ie see it as a clear cautionary tale for other illegals.
So, I’m guessing once the “advocates” enter Nadler’s office they have touched base and police can’t enter, is that it?
Look how quickly they went from “No one is above the law” to “these people are above the law”
Agreed! Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves.
Yep! All talk, NO action. Shame on all of them.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.And in The Conscience of a Conservative, this observation was made:
Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states’ rights by the national Democratic Party — an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement — as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. […] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.So the phenomenon of lefties masquerading as “righties”, no matter how transparently, is over seven decades old at least, or perhaps centuries old if TR’s moves towards progressivism are counted.
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states’ rights. We often talk about “returning to the states their rightful powers”; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily. …
— TCOAC, pp. 24-25
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