Posted on 06/25/2020 5:22:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on Wednesday involving allegations that the Trump administration had politicized the Department of Justice. The testimony comes on the same day that a D.C. Court of Appeals officially ordered the case against former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn to be thrown out because, it turns out, the Obama Justice Department had ensnared Flynn in a perjury trap. We now know that former President Obama and former Vice President Biden, along with a cadre of Obama-era White House officials, conspired to target Flynn and use the Justice Department to damage the incoming Trump administration. But sure, let's accuse the Trump administration of being the ones who politicized the Justice Department.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) rules over his committee like a soviet official conducting a show trial. Nadler lets Democratic witnesses go way over their time limits but then comes down with an iron fist whenever a non-Democratic witness nears the five-minute mark. Since Nadler throws the rules out the window to let his witnesses drone on and on, Rep. Louie Gohmert decided to demonstrate the importance of rules and order by disrupting a Democratic witness who wouldn't stop talking.
Former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer was testifying that Attorney General William Barr posed "the greatest threat ... to our rule of law and public trust in it." Ayer himself then ignored House Rules by proceeding to testify for several minutes beyond his allotted time. It was then that Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) drowned out Ayer's testimony by tapping on his desk.
"Mr. Chairman, I would ask that the sergeant-at-arms be called upon to stop the disruption of this meeting," Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) said as Rep. Gohmert continued tapping. "I can’t hear this witness. This is a very important witness."
"Yeah, well he's way beyond his time," Gohmert fired back. "And if there are no rules about when people can talk, there are no rules about when you can make noise."
Nadler conceded Gohmert's point, but then allowed the Democratic witness to keep talking.
"Mr. Chairman this is outrageous. Do you have no respect for the rules whatsoever? asked Gohmert.
"He's two minutes beyond concluding, and you don’t let us have that kind of time. You gavel us down immediately," continued Gohmert. "You’re being grossly unfair. ... Either we have rules or we don't."
Nadler allowed the witness to resume his monologue, and Gohmert continued tapping on his desk.
"... according to House Rules, a chairman cannot capriciously determine the five-minute rule at the whim of what he wants," said Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) during a point of order.
Of course, Nadler refused to recognize the point of order, at which point Collins said the chairman has "not stated a recognizable way of running the committee in 18 months."
Katie reported earlier that Attorney General Bill Barr has accepted an invitation from Jerry Nadler to testify before the House Judiciary Committee during a general oversight committee meeting scheduled for July 28.
That’s a good point and I bet you’re correct. If that is the case the sudden demand for Barr’s appearance will be conveniently cancelled.
.....”No one is above the rules”.......
Obviously they are.
Good call. Those three are pretty reliable. Chuck Fleischmann is another good one in the House. We need more of them.
Even if you double that number the GOP "soldiers who fight" is pathetically low. As much as I hate to say it we are getting the type of representation that we tolerate and repeatedly vote for.
The Republicans shouldn’t even be involved. They should simply walk out and not return.
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That would solve half the problem.
Now, if the rest of Congress would follow - preferably off a long pier into shark infested waters (and my apologies to any sharks who are sickened).
Every Republican in that room should have joined Louie Gohmert and started banging on the desk.
This is the reason.
They are getting desperate in their attempts to slander and discredit Barr. They must be worried about what will be dropping.
“The vast majority of Congress is ... well, bad.”
No, not bad, WORTHLESS! And to make matters worse we pay for them to do nothing! Something must change.
I wish they were merely worthless. IMO, the institution is harmful. We pay them to harm us.
Agreed!
Actually, if you think about it - it did. Any corrupt media trying to get a soundbite from the former DA hack will have the rapping sound in the background.
Hehe - kind of like when Rush talks or hums over some clip he’s playing so no one copies it as their own.
“..A Republican who fights back....”
EVERY Republican should be fighting back.
Every damned Republican in that chamber should have stood up and SHOUTED down Nadler and every “witness” going over the allotted time, raised so much Hell that the entire assembly would have to be shut down.
“No justice, no peace”, they say; I say fine. We’ll give it right back to them.
Give Fat Nads and his cohorts EXACTLY what they are giving us - chaos. And do it EVERY SESSION.
This playing by gentlemen’s rules with psychopaths gets us nowhere.
Chairman Nadler is embarrassingly void of fairness...is there no one who can remove him?
Maybe a bunch of Republican congress critters need to take canes to work.
Anarchists and Communists don’t care for your rules or Constitution. They will only use each against you.
The voters can remove him. They get a chance to do so every two years.
lol reminds me of the E plab-nista episode... With Trump or Pence as Kirk and Biden (you know the thing...) as the errant chieftain.
This goes to show just how corrupt Obama made things in DC, bringing Chicago style corruption to DC that would have surprised even Al Capone with it's ruthlessness (Fast and Furious) and its width and depth.
Mark
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