“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy
IMPEACH!!!
If 10 million people marched on DC, it might get their attention...might!
Nuclear option? It is good that Grassley is following up but this needs to happen in the House where Impeachment initiates. Start with Holder and work your way up.
Did anyone expect prosecutions here? It’s like thinking Stalin was going to give up his power because someone objected to his methods..........
“...DOJ Declines to Prosecute Officials Involved in Tax Record Scandal...”
Huh...Now there’s a surprise...
Re. your link
Cui bono?
Unenforced laws are no laws at all.
I’m shocked, shocked I say!
I’m shocked, shocked I say!
In the context of Obama's promise of transparent government, he meant that in "transparent", there is nothing there to see.
Antonin Scalia effectively codified the unique independent power of the Fourth Branch into the hands of all citizens sitting as federal grand jurors. In discussing that power and unique independence granted to the grand jury, the United States Supreme Court, in United States v. Williams, 504 U.S. 36 at 48 (1992), Justice Scalia, delivering the opinion of the court, laid down the law of the land:
“‘[R]ooted in long centuries of Anglo-American history,” Hannah v. Larche, 363 U.S. 420, 490 (1960) (Frankfurter, J., concurring in result), the grand jury is mentioned in the Bill of Rights, but not in the body of the Constitution. It has not been textually assigned, therefore, to any of the branches described in the first three Articles. It “`is a constitutional fixture in its own right.’” United States v. Chanen, 549 F.2d 1306, 1312 (CA9 1977) (quoting Nixon v. Sirica, 159 U.S. App. D.C. 58, 70, n. 54, 487 F.2d 700, 712, n. 54 (1973)), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 825 (1977). ‘ “
I submit to you that this passage sets the stage for a revolutionary knew context necessary and Constitutionally mandated to “we the people”, THE FOURTH BRANCH of the Government of the United States. Besides, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches, I submit that there is a fourth branch, THE GRAND JURY, and “we the people” when sitting as grand jurors, are, as Scalia quoted in US v. Williams, ” a constitutional fixture in its own right”. Yes, damn it. That is exactly what the grand jury is, and what it was always intended to be.
Scalia also stated, that “the grand jury is an institution separate from the courts, over whose functioning the courts do not preside…” Id.
And finally, to seal the deal, Scalia hammered the point home:
“In fact, the whole theory of its function is that it belongs to no branch of the institutional Government, serving as a kind of buffer or referee between the Government and the people. See Stirone v. United States, 361 U.S. 212, 218 (1960); Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43, 61 (1906); G. Edwards, The Grand Jury 28-32 (1906). Although the grand jury normally operates, of course, in the courthouse and under judicial auspices, its institutional relationship with the Judicial Branch has traditionally been, so to speak, at arm’s length. Judges’ direct involvement in the functioning of the grand jury has generally been confined to the constitutive one of calling the grand jurors together and administering their oaths of office. See United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338, 343 (1974); Fed.Rule Crim.Proc. 6(a). [504 U.S. 36, 48] “
This miraculous quote says it all, “…the whole theory of its function is that it belongs to no branch of the institutional Government, serving as a kind of buffer or referee between the Government and the people.” The Constitution of the United States, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, gives rise to a FOURTH BRANCH of Government, THE GRAND JURY. We the people have been charged with oversight of the government in our roles as grand jurors.
Is there no check to protect/by pass against a criminal AG?
And the republicans won’t even call for holder’s resignation. What a pathetic bunch of cowards.
The ‘doj’ willfully and openly breaks the law. Who is going to prosecute the criminals in the ‘doj’?
IF the republicants will not write that law and publicize it and why it is necessary, THEN the republicants now in office need to be run out of DC on a rail with hot tar and feathers covering their filthy countenances. I would favor a lynching, but that's just me and my exploding intolerance of their corruption.
"Some animals are more equal than others."
The Injustice Department.
No “just us”. No piece.
the Obama DOJ has become the poitical arm of the DNC.
Treasury Special Agent Daniel K. Carney...
I wonder....