"Thx for doing the lookup. The post was so ridiculous I didn't bother."
Choosing to pretend I am defending the individual elected official from arrest is just silly. I am not and I have said so repeatedly.
Previously I stated
“I also think there are plenty of ways for the Enforcement folks to acquire evidence of wrongdoing or corruption of our elected officials without 'Crossing the Rubicon" rifling the files or entering the offices of our elected officials.
Jefferson’s guilt or innocence is irrelevant. This is not about one elected person. “
Further I pointed out that there are ways to obtain documents from the offices of the House Thru the Speaker and the House Ethics committee.
This whole affair has been going on for some 7 months since the Justice Department requested the documents. So beyond a power play what was the reason the Justice department felt compelled to break a 216 year old precedent?
Come on please be serious, where you can educate me, show me I am wrong I lose nothing but gain understanding so I appreciate you efforts. This from my perspective for now still remains a power play plain and simple.
Quoting chapter and verse regarding a point I readily concur with you on (that they may be individually subjected to arrest for certain criminal misconduct does nothing to
address the issue and objection I am raising.)
The objection is to members of the Executive entering and seizing documents from the Offices of our Legislative Branch period.
I am not claiming individual House Members have blanket immunity from arrest or should have. Speaker Hastert (no friend politically of Jefferson that I know of) is not either.
His objection is essentially the same as mine.
It is the entering and seizure of documents by the Executive Branch from the offices of the Legislative Branch that is at issue and all it portends that I have constantly objected to here.
To pretend I am defending Jefferson or any individual elected official or trying to protect them somehow from prosecution is not correct and you know it.
I will readily agree their offices are not sacrosanct either nor should their offices serve as a place to hide evidence of wrongdoing. However I have articulated some very good reasons this search and seizure should not have happened. That it has not happened before in 216 years should give conservatives pause. Why is it happening now? Is Jefferson the first suspected crook in the House or Senate or first one prosecuted?. I think not.
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