Posted on 01/23/2019 11:31:58 AM PST by jazusamo
Full title: Judicial Watch: Senate Ethics Committee Gives Sen. Cory Booker a Pass for Purposely Violating Rules to Try to Torpedo Kavanaugh Nomination
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has refused to take action against Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who admitted to willfully violating Senate rules by releasing confidential records regarding then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a White House counsel. The documents were marked “Committee confidential,” meaning they were not for public distribution.
Judicial Watch’s September 2018 complaint to the chairman and co-chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics called for an investigation after Sen. Booker admitted to violating Senate rules in releasing the confidential material. Ethics Committee Chief Counsel and Staff Director Deborah Sue Mayer responded last week:
The Select Committee on Ethics (the Committee) has reviewed the complaint you filed against Senator Cory A. Booker, dated September 12, 2018. The Committee carefully evaluated the allegations in the complaint and, based on all the information before it, determined that no further action is appropriate. Thank you for your correspondence with the Committee.
Sen. Booker admitted breaking Senate rules when he issued a tweet on Friday, September 7 saying:
Weds—I broke committee rules by reading from “Committee confidential” docs.
Also, 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.
Judicial Watch noted in its complaint that Sen. Booker also uploaded “Committee confidential” records to a publicly accessible Dropbox account with the heading “Booker Confidential – Kavanaugh Hearing Documents”.
By violating the rules in releasing Committee confidential records, Sen. Booker appeared to have violated provisions 5 and/or 6 of Rule 29 of the Standing Rules of the Senate (Rev. Jan. 24, 2013), which stipulate that he should be subject to expulsion from the Senate:
(See pp. 48-49: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CDOC-113sdoc18/pdf/CDOC-113sdoc18.pdf )
The Senate Ethics Committee is evenly split, with three Republicans and three Democrats. The Committee members are Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Christopher A. Coons (D-DE), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Brian Schatz (D-HI), James Risch (R-ID), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).
“It is an absolute disgrace that the Senate Ethics Committee is giving Senator Booker a pass for willfully violating its rules by leaking confidential information to smear Justice Kavanaugh,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Senate continues the abuse of Kavanaugh and his family by refusing to act against a Senator who, pretending to be Spartacus, violated the rule of law and our Constitution in trying to destroy him.”
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The left has something to use as leverage on the ethics committee
50/50 Dem/Repub. One RINO in there, and you get an acquittal.
Coons and Schatz are insane, period. Isakson - don’t know much about but get the impress he’s gutless. Shaheen - always a Clinton/Obama tool.
Roberts and Risch (R) don’t know anything about them.
That is why the Marxists/socialists/progressives and Clinton criminals are running rings around McConnell and gang.
Hillary’s boi
we only have oppressors, not a government of law
Cory Booker gets a pass. As usual another democrats get a pass and is not held responsible. It is turning out if you want to avoid any responsibly just tell the prosecutors or judge you are a Dem
We haven’t had governance by constitutional means since FDR betrayed the Republic and Mr No Repeal Eisenhower rubber stamped it. Eisenhower could have save this nation from the cancer FDR planted in its bones but it seemed harmless enough to him at the time.
Booker & Feinstein should have been expelled from the Senate for their actions in the Cavanaugh fiasco.
At least an official ‘admonishment’ and expulsion from any major committee if not shown the door.
Disgraceful WE are represented by a bunch of pansy ass, limp wristed cowards.
They work it like it is always worked, notice if a bill comes up where just for spite ‘they’ will vote against it and always a dissenter or two-preferably from a ‘swing or close’ state that is UP FOR REELECTION.
Once reelected the perp goes back to his ‘crooked’ ways.
BOTH sides are guilty of that.
The LAST really honest Pol with higher ambitions was Bob Dole who - even with all his ‘faults’ - resigned his Senate seat when he got the nomination for Pres so he could devote his full time and attentin to the Pres race and NOT deprive his ‘loyal constituents’ of representation.
What a way to get rid of the trash that jumps into these frays....
I couldn’t agree more, what DiFi and Booker did in those committee hearings was pathetic.
He has special protective pigmentation.
I ‘forgot’ to throw in the ‘faux’ Marine from CT who lectured us on the perils of telling a little lie and how it grows into a massive lie....
Of ALL people to use that example
yes I agree, we have been giving in foir so long now they expect us to lay down and die it seems
Better the anarchy of the paleocons than the order of the progressives.
Being a Democrat means never having to say you’re guilty.
well said
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