Posted on 05/04/2023 12:12:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
In a May 3 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sens. Katie Britt of Alabama, Tom Cotton of Iowa, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Mike Lee of Utah reveal that they have obtained “post orders” dated May 19, 2022, that claim “USMS is not in a position to enforce” federal and state law.
“This is the exact kind of thing from the Biden DOJ that continues to cause people across Alabama and America to fear that there is a two-tiered system of justice in our country,” Britt said in an emailed statement to The Daily Signal. “The simple fact of the matter is that the Administration agreed with the protestors’ politics and willfully chose not to enforce the law.”
The U.S. Marshals Service should not engage protesters “unless they attempt to enter private property,” the post orders said, according to the senators. This matches what members of the U.S. Marshals Service told The Daily Signal on the ground at Chief Justice John Roberts’ home in January.
June 4 post orders, which came four days before authorities arrested a man for attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, reportedly warned the marshals that they “should not engage in protest-related enforcement actions beyond that which are strictly and immediately necessary and tailored to ensure the physical safety of the Justices and their families.”
Like similar materials that Britt revealed in March, the post orders also allegedly ordered U.S. Marshals Service personnel that “[a]ny contemplated USMS enforcement action should be coordinated in advance” with the appropriate U.S. attorney’s office.
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“In light of all the clear evidence that DOJ actively sought to dissuade USMS personnel from enforcing Section 1507,” the senators wrote, “the Deputy Attorney General’s April 19th testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the March 29th statement made by USMS Director Davis, and your continued failure to amend your March 1st testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee all raise a number of troubling questions regarding DOJ’s dishonesty and impropriety with respect to its handling of this matter.”
Shortly after the leak of the draft opinion indicating Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned, the radical pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us began urging protesters to go to the homes of the “six extremist justices, three in Virginia and three in Maryland.” Those justices were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch.
ShutDownDC, a leftist protest group that has protested at the family homes of Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and commentator Tucker Carlson, also called for protesting at the justices’ houses and even offered bounties for sightings of the justices. Far-left protesters with Our Rights DC and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights joined these groups in targeting the justices’ homes.
This protesting has frequently occurred in spite of 18 U.S. Code 1507, which forbids picketing or parading “in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer” with the intent of intimidating or influencing that person.
As the senators pointed out, Garland has since admitted that it is a federal crime to protest outside a judge’s home with the intent of influencing that judge, but he has not enforced that law, though both Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan requested that he do so. Garland also claimed in March that the U.S. marshals “on scene” make the decision “whether to make an arrest.”
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has also launched an investigation into the directions given to the marshals, writing in a letter to U.S. Marshal Service Director Ronald Davis that “the training materials provided to the U.S. Marshals strongly suggest that the Biden Administration is continuing to weaponize federal law enforcement agencies for partisan purposes.”
“While authorities apprehended the man who intended to do harm to Justice Kavanaugh, we are aware of no other arrests or charges for agitators demonstrating outside of the justices’ homes—despite the actions clearly violating federal law,” Jordan said in the letter, according to The Hill.
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Conservatives and republicans are making a terrible mistake by focusing on the fact that Biden may be senile. We are seeing the most radical leftist policies carried out at every level and total disregard for the law. That should be our focus.
there is NO Question there are two tiers of “Law”
in this corrupt country run by “officials” who stole
an Election (far beyond stealing a horse, is it not?).
The AG has already admitted that murders, and arson,
done at night - in the dark —
by known terrorists working for/with/directed by the DO”J”
will NOT be arrested in the future.
... nor have they been arrested in the past.
Until Speaker McCarthy signs a big stack of Arrest and Detainment Orders for Inherent Contempt of Congress, this is just Kabuki Theater, entertaining yes, but in the end means absolutely nothing.
“U.S. CODE
TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6—CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.”
Simply look up Hinds Precedents, especially chapters 53 and 51, and Cannon’s Precedents, especially chapters 184-185. You’ll find numerous detailed cases of Congress asserting its power, arresting people, holding them until they agreed to answer questions, and then releasing them. Some of these people did not refuse to appear, but simply failed to satisfactorily answer questions.
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
In 1857, a New York Times reporter refused to say which members of Congress had asked him to get them bribes (protecting his “sources” just as various Judith Millers today protect the people who feed them proven lies that costs thousands of lives), so Congress locked him up until he answered and then banned him from Congress.
In 1924 an oil executive appeared but refused to answer certain questions, so the Senate held — literally held — him in contempt. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana argued that this question of contempt was of the gravest importance, and that it involved “the very life of the effective existence of the House of Representatives of the United States and of the Senate of the United States.” The matter was taken to court, and the witness fined and imprisoned.
I have been saying that ever since he was installed.
He has always been a screw-up, in every office he’s ever held.
This is who he is, and who he has always been.
The Old Senile Joe Biden is no different than the Young Senator Joe Biden.
He’s corrupt and his whole family is in on the game.
The staff are just as bad.
I think that Harris knows she will at some point be the POTUS, one way or another.
I don’t know if she is corrupt or not, but she could not be worse...................
What it all boils down to is they mean to kill us.
The justices probably should be able to request and get Secret Service protection.
So by default logic Garland sees the law as a productivity tool to enforce or not enforce, based on political goals and objectives.
A strong case could be made by criminal defendants that their prosecutions were political and not based on the merits of the law.
Folks, they are ITCHING for a confrontaion. The surest way for locking us all down is a civil war. Dark days are here.
If by some miracle a Republican should win the presidency in 24, don’t look for this bunch or Marxist to turn over power so easily. If they are willing to let SCOTUS justices be murdered they are capable of anything.
Biden is not senile. He’s behaved exactly this way for 40 years. Saying he is senile is an insult to senile people everywhere.
More and more it looks like the whole Federal Government is ROTTEN to the core!
Has been since Lincoln was shot...................
The court and its justices are now paying the price of their unwillingness to rule against the legislative and executive branches. (And yes even it's own Justice Department)
The Supreme Court has been guilty of not wanting to stir up the pot by ruling on matters taking its own government institutions to task. That is weakness on the wind. The leftist noses smell it like blood in the water.
I believe he so angry at the US for making him wait so long to be Prez he is willing to destroy it now as a final goodbye.
I think there is a Scooby Doo meme out there of the meddling kids pulling the mask off Biden to reveal its really Obama. That fits here.
Tom Cotton is from Iowa? Who knew?
in the early days of this country, this is the kind of crap the citizens would fix by themselves. Clearly our justice system is corrupted beyond repair American law enforcement has been rendered useless and worthless so maybe it’s about time we return to the days of old.
Yeah, down the road close to election time Trump will be brought up for charges of sedition. I am so sick and tired of this double standard in our law system. Sick of it! I believe in my heart sooner or later the American people are about to snap in half caused by the harm inflicted by our evil swamp government, our crooked judicial system who are communists paid for by the rats and the open borders along with our economy tanking and the dollar devaluation ….our nation is getting ripped for an altercation. The American people ARE FED UP!
Safe streets for all. Good schools. Good hospitals. Good municipal services. Pay-day loans at your local Tavern for a 10% interest rate. Safe to be a cop. Bad to be a thug on the loose creating chaos.
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