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Rep. Thomas Massie asks AG Garland: What gives you the authority to appoint a Special Counsel? (Jack Smith)
X ^ | June 4 | Rep. Massie

Posted on 06/05/2024 1:49:35 AM PDT by RandFan

@RepThomasMassie

Is Special Counsel Jack Smith's office Constitutional? Unlike U.S. Attorneys, he wasn't appointed by the President and wasn't confirmed by the Senate.

Congress never even authorized a Special Counsel office to exist. We shouldn’t pretend this position is legal or independent.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: edmeese; edwinmeese; jacksmith; merrickgarland; specialcounsel; thomasmassie
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Oh this is good on the legality of Jack Smith's office.

Massie in committee with Garland.

I hope you enjoy it (6 mins @ Link)

1 posted on 06/05/2024 1:49:35 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

More strongliest worded letters forthcoming.


2 posted on 06/05/2024 2:28:31 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: RandFan

Well, Clarence Thomas Supreme Court justice, Ed Meese former Us Attorney General, Steven Calabresi co-chairman of the Federalist Society, Gary Lawson, constitutional law professor at Boston University, and John Sauer Trump’s attorney who agreed with Clarence Thomas’ question regarding the legitimacy of Smith’s appointment and acknowledged that Smith’s appointment was not challenged directly in the current Supreme Court case, have all raised this question. So now we can add Rep. Thomas Massie to the list.


3 posted on 06/05/2024 2:43:20 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: RandFan

It’s not legit, but nothing will happen. The left runs amok with their dangerous nonsense, and all we do is shake fingers and say, “You’re a bad boy!”


4 posted on 06/05/2024 3:12:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: RandFan

You would think this and other abuses would cause Massie to stop voting for deficit budgets that fund guys like Smith. But he doesn’t. Why is that?


5 posted on 06/05/2024 3:14:41 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: RandFan

Our regime leader Pedo Joe Biden is ignoring a SCOTUS ruling which says he has NO authority to cancel private debt instruments (loan contracts) and pay off student loans from public debt (i.e. - taxpayer money), thereby willfully violating the Constitution and his oath of office.

Yet Thomas Massie expects him and his lackeys in DoJ to follow the law?

This isn’t Kabuki theater, it’s Kafkaesque, theater of the absurd.


6 posted on 06/05/2024 3:18:46 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: Robert DeLong

It’s disturbing that Trump’s attorneys didn’t raise the question before the Supreme Court and that Clarence Thomas had to ask them why they didn’t. They had raised the question before an Appeals Court, but apparently just forgot to include the question when they appealed to the Supreme Ct. Makes his attorneys look incompetent.


7 posted on 06/05/2024 3:20:05 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: RandFan

Why wasn’t this taken to the USSC years ago?


8 posted on 06/05/2024 3:45:43 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Roadrunner383
You are aware right, that every attorney that has taken on Trump as a client are facing lawsuits around the nation with their law licenses being threatened to be taken away.

As far as I know the only issue that has been in front of the Supreme Court has been the immunity case to determine if President's have immunity of actions taken while in office. Sometimes they will not entertain a point that is not being adjudicated.

You are impugning without fully understanding the dangers they face. Who knows, perhaps one of his lawyers asked a question that provoked the thought process that led Clarence Thomas to state what he said. It may have come from Judge Aileen Cannon who has been exposing a lot of the information that has been kept hidden by these criminals.

Sometimes I think people just fail to understand, that we are no longer living in the U.S. that wee were born into, or even existed when Trump was President, because they seem to think that rule-of-law is still inexistence, even after seeing all of the lawfare this is antithetical to what is normal.

You are seeing the expose of a criminal justice system that has been systematically destroyed by activism being taught in our law schools and the placement of many of these people throughout our legal system.

9 posted on 06/05/2024 3:47:33 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Jurisdiction and standing are adjudicated at every level by the court itself to ensure that the issues before the court can even be before the court.


10 posted on 06/05/2024 3:55:24 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: RandFan

... and they accused Nixon of “Dirty Tricks!”


11 posted on 06/05/2024 4:03:05 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: AndyJackson
The Supreme Court is the highest court of the land. Thus it has full jurisdiction to hear any case whatsoever. It can even take a case that has not traveled the chain of lower courts, just as it did when it took the Bush V Gore case on December 12, 2000.

It took on the Roe V Wade abortion case, even though every legal scholar of worth said it should have never taken the issue because it was rightfully a state issue, not a Federal issue.

12 posted on 06/05/2024 4:04:34 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: RandFan

All these hearings and not a damn thing happens. They’re all on the same page no matter what side they say they’re in. They sure aren’t on the side of the American people.


13 posted on 06/05/2024 4:08:18 AM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: Robert DeLong

So Blanche, Necheles and Bove are facing lawsuits related to defending Trump? Or Pat Cipollone, Jay Sekulow, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi? How about Bruce Castor, David Schoen and Michael van der Veen? Or Alina Habba?


14 posted on 06/05/2024 4:41:52 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: RandFan

and the repubs are just noticing this?


15 posted on 06/05/2024 4:46:18 AM PDT by Pollard (Will work for high tunnel money!)
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To: rarestia

It’s not legal - so what are we going to do? The Democrats have been using this “Catch Me if You Can” technique for years.


16 posted on 06/05/2024 4:55:24 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: joesbucks

An ignorant comment, but not unexpected.


17 posted on 06/05/2024 5:03:38 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: joesbucks

Go to hell Joe. No one on FR cares about your leftist opinions. I see ANOTHER ZOT in your future.


18 posted on 06/05/2024 5:09:54 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: joesbucks
My statement was:

You are aware right, that every attorney that has taken on Trump as a client are facing lawsuits around the nation with their law licenses being threatened to be taken away.

Has is past tense, and while I may have overstated the case, it is still fundamentally correct. Yes, even Alan Dershowitz has spoken of how he was treated for defending Trump in the impeachment hearing. I bet all of the rest have stories they could relate to as well. But there is a sufficient pattern to justify my statement.

Perhaps if you were actually more involved beyond just reading MSM news articles, you might actually learn some truth that exists beyond the echo chamber to which you have embedded yourself into.

This is exactly why I have zero respect of you, you are nothing but a provocateur who believes that makes you not only clever but intelligent as well. You are neither.

You are just a useful idiot joke.

19 posted on 06/05/2024 5:30:16 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: joesbucks; All

Right on cue. You’ve already been spanked for your stupidity by numerous posters, so I’ll refrain. I’m just here to remind everyone that reads your stuff that you’re nothing but a lying leftist pretending to be neutral on a conservative forum. What kind sick human does that? Answer: A dark shadow of all that is good and noble.


20 posted on 06/05/2024 5:37:01 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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