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.
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.
Get a rope and string it up ...
Don’t they know? The rules only apply to Republicans.
I think this is exactly what Booger wants. To be martyred before his run for Democrat nomination.//
I agree just playing into his hands. Not like he’s gonna be expelled or anything.
“Too bad that Judicial Watch has to do the work of the Senate Ethics committee.”
And Session’s work too.
Consider the alternative. What choice do we really have? We've actually been making some progress towards cleaning some of these clowns out lately. That little ratfink Paul Ryan couldn't be gone fast enough. Flake and Corker are leaving too.
I wish we could turn the whole damn Congress upside down and dump all the rats and weasels out but we'll just have to take what gains we can and keep pushing forward. MAGA! The left must be crushed!
WHO is gonna "throw the book at him"? The Congressional GOP?....the DoJ?....the Capitol Police?....Sheriff Andy?....Dick Tracy?
Give me a break.
At least we should give Mitch props for holding the Kavanaugh hearings before the mid-terms. He was under a lot of dem pressure to hold off. He took the pressure and told them to cram it.
I haven’t liked Mitch for a long time but on this one he stood with the president and for America.
Booker is showing off to his children and grandchildren how rude and uncivil, and how he can violate the law. I wonder if he is surprised when his children and grandchildren are rude, uncivil and violate the law?
Booker is showing off to his children and grandchildren how rude and uncivil, and how he can violate the law. I wonder if he is surprised when his children and grandchildren are rude, uncivil and violate the law?
Maybe the Senate Ethics Committee thinks their job is to avoid living up to any (ethics).
I still want to know who in the hell were the bastards who used our tax money to pay off sexual assault victims. How and why did that whole thing die?
UNIPARTY
At the very least he should be sanctioned and not allowed on any committees. He only gets his one vote on bills as a senator. No perks. He swore to uphold and abide by the senate rules and the US Constitution. He has proven he is incapable so he made this bed. Sanction him. Make him little more than a bot for the dem party. A sock puppet could do that. Somehow I can easily visualize Schumer with his hand up Booger’s butt moving his mouth and saying the words for him.
Well stated, I totally agree.
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