God bless Tom Fitton.
Let the Senate weenies disregard Judicial Watch's complaint. At least, Booker received a valid complaint for his inglorious stunt during Judge Kavanaugh's hearing.
Posted on 09/12/2018 11:21:39 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full Title: Judicial Watch Files Senate Ethics Complaint Against Sen. Cory Booker for Purposely Violating Rules in Releasing Confidential Documents
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it hand-delivered a letter to the chairman and co-chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics calling for an investigation into Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) admitted violation Senate rules by releasing confidential records through his social media accounts. Senator Booker faces expulsion from the Senate for his violation of the rules.
Sen. Booker admitted to violating Senate rules when he issued a tweet on Friday, September 7 saying:
Weds—I broke committee rules by reading from “committee confidential” docs.
Sen. Booker then posted the following entry on his Facebook account on Saturday, September 9:
And the classification of many documents as “Committee Confidential” is a sham… I willfully violate these sham rules. I fully accept any consequences that might arise from my actions including expulsion.
Additionally, Sen. Booker uploaded Committee Confidential records to a publicly accessible Dropbox account with the heading “Booker Confidential – Kavanaugh Hearing Documents”.
“Senator Booker, in an absurd invocation of ‘Spartacus,’ explicitly invited his expulsion from the Senate in his egregious violation of the rules and contempt for the rule of law and the Constitution,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Will the Senate assert the rule of law in the Booker case or allow mob rule to be the new standard?”
The Judicial Watch complaint is reprinted below:
Dear Chairman Isakson and Co-Chairman Coons:
Judicial Watch, Inc. in a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation that promotes transparency, accountability, and integrity in government and fidelity to the rule of law. We regularly monitor congressional ethics issues as part of our anticorruption mission.
Sen. Cory Booker admitted to violating Senate rules when he issued a tweet on Friday, September 7 saying:
Weds-I broke committee rules by reading from “committee confidential” docs.
(See https://twitter.com/CoryBooker/status/1038077511924629504 .)
Sen. Booker then posted the following entry on his Facebook account on Saturday, September 9:
And the classification of many documents as “Committee Confidential” is a sham … I willfully violate these sham rules. I fully accept any consequences that might arise from my actions including expulsion.
(See https://www.facebook.com/corybooker/photos/a.115558592227/10158241220222228/?type=3&theater )
Sen. Booker uploaded Committee Confidential records to a publicly accessible Dropbox account with the heading “Booker Confidential – Kavanaugh Hearing Documents”.
(See https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cc4u94lgyncygn6/AABPGJkIiq5ND7KJuX7kXUX9a?dl=0 )
By publicly releasing Committee Confidential records, Sen. Booker appears to have violated provisions 5 and/or 6 of Rule 29 of the Standing Rules of the Senate (Rev. Jan. 24, 2013), which stipulate:
5. Any Senator, officer or employee of the Senate who shall disclose the secret or confidential business or proceedings of the Senate, including the business and proceedings of the committees, subcommittees and offices of the Senate shall be liable, if a Senator, to suffer expulsion from the body; and if an officer or employee, to dismissal from the service of the Senate, and to punishment for contempt.
6. Whenever, by the request of the Senate or any committee thereof, any documents or papers shall be communicated to the Senate by the President or the head of any department relating to any matter pending in the Senate, the proceedings in regard to which are secret or confidential under the rules, said documents and papers shall be considered as confidential, and shall not be disclosed without leave of the Senate.
(See pp. 48-49: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-113sdoc18/pdf/CDOC-113sdoc18.pdf )
We hereby request that the Senate Ethics Committee conduct a preliminary investigation into whether Sen. Booker violated Senate Rules by releasing Committee Confidential records through his social media accounts.
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
Crockett’s in the media, right.
Too bad that Judicial Watch has to do the work of the Senate Ethics committee.
Republicans are losers! They’re an embarrassment!
Cory Booker slapped with ethics complaint over 'Spartacus' moment
The Repubs have gone from being the Stupid Party to being the Really Damned Ridiculously Stupid Party.
I think this is exactly what Booger wants. To be martyred before his run for Democrat nomination.
I thought that despite Booker’s comments, they had already declassified the documents he was referring to. Making Booker’s comments just fake grandstanding.
Maybe it wasn’t just grandstanding if he really did violate the rules.
You’re so right.
At least it puts the Ethics Committee on the spot to make the decision.
Thank you!
The GOP is the complicit party.
Most of them are Bush League Republicans hell bent on making the USA into North Mexico.
They went along with the Kenyanesian Usurpation, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and all the myriad crimes committed therein.
You got that right....it keeps his puss in front of the cameras....gets him lots of TV talk exposure.
It also keeps the black vote in his camp----b/c blacks actually believe all our laws rules and regs....and the US Constitution....were made by evil white slave-owners intent on marginalizing blacks.
A black guy like Booker speaking up against the rules is good news for them.
Yep, but then he came back later and said he’d released some that weren’t cleared.
The point I see is that he either lied or he released confidential material, maybe both.
It is actually quite logical and consistent that they throw the book at him...
Hillary’s intent was not to violate the law, so based on INTENT ALONE... She is not Guilty...
Now Booker... Same logic... Whether he broke a law or not is inconsequential... HE INTENDED TO BREAK THE LAW... That is is KEY!
Off with his head!
[ Senator Booker faces expulsion from the Senate for his violation of the rules. ]
If only that actually would happen....talk about liberal heads exploding.
Let's Wrap This Baby Up, Folks!
Agreed...It isn’t gonna happen but we could hope for him getting booted from the Judicial Committee.
“Republicans are losers! They’re an embarrassment!”
But we are urged to “vote, vote, vote” for more of these clowns.
They should boot him out, if he did willingly violate the rules.
And they should run him through a wringer, if he didn’t but grandstanded about doing so.
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