The U.S. Dept of Justice (DOJ) has sent a five-page letter to congress, copying Politico for the public distribution therein. [SEE pdf HERE]
The snarky and passive aggressive Lawfare tone inside the letter is rather remarkable in its sanctimony and condescension. Essentially, Main Justice is telling congressional oversight, specifically House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, not to expect any timely responses because there’s a lot going on.
Additionally, as the letter directly implies, Republican oversight is not in the favor of the current administration or DOJ and, well, in general terms, get over it – they aren’t complying. However, feel free to initiate the formal negotiation process that will likely take several years.
From the letter to Jim Jordan, “Your January 17 requests—made now in your position as Chairman—initiate the constitutionally mandated accommodation process. Under this process, the Legislative and Executive Branches have a constitutional obligation to negotiate in good faith to meet the informational needs of Congress while protecting the institutional interests of the Executive Branch. We look forward to beginning this process in response to your January 17 letters.” (link)
(Via Politico) – […] The letter, addressed to Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), acknowledges the GOP’s multiple requests for information during the last Congress but doesn’t divulge any new information. Instead, Uriarte outlines how he hopes DOJ could have a “productive relationship” with Republicans in the new Congress, as Jordan had in previous letters accused the DOJ of “stonewalling” their requests, raised the possibility of a subpoena and said the committee could resort to “compulsory practices” to obtain the requested information and documents.
It’s an early marker of DOJ’s position as Republicans pledge to probe President Joe Biden’s administration over a laundry list of issues, including with a select subpanel that has a broad mandate to investigate the federal government. Conservatives have hinted they would use that panel to try to look into certain ongoing law enforcement investigations. (read more)
I think at this point everyone outside the professional political class in the Legislative Branch knew this was going to happen. However, the Republicans in Congress will likely pretend to be stunned by this development, Fox News Sean Hannity will be outraged by it, and then the RNC and RCCC will dispatch fundraising campaigns citing the refusal of the DOJ. Win, win, win… wash – rinse – repeat.
Predicting this approach was exactly why CTH said the House Subcommittee on Weaponized Government should not waste time looking for assistance, documents and or internal support from the various DC silos. Instead, the oversight committees need to go through the formal request process (blah, blah, blah) but focus their efforts at getting documents from the private sector collaborators outside the DC silo system.
If it seems like the Democrats always know how to use power more effectively than Republicans, you would be absolutely correct. However, few people really understand the reason for it. So, I will repeat.
The Republicans want money. The Democrats want power. The Republicans use power to get money. The Democrats use money to get power. The ideology of the Democrats drives their donor funding. The donor funding of the Republicans drives their ideology.
This core truism carries forward beyond electoral politics and into the realm of legislative battles and oversight conflicts. Republicans want money as their primary objective. If the Biden administration wants to get an ideological bill passed, the Democrats simply buy the votes of Republicans (especially Senators).
As an additional outcome, Republicans in congress have no core values, no core objectives, no goals to achieve. After all, their structural goal is money.
Give Republicans power and they don’t know what to do with it, because the voters essentially boosted the dog to catch the car… now what?
What you see in the outcome of elections is that Republicans do not have any plan for power, because it’s not the issue that takes up their intellectual time. That’s reserved for deep analytical thoughts about how to make money from (XXX).
The Democrats know this, they know the main mission of Republicans. Ergo, the Lawfare DOJ pats the Republicans on the head and waits for the frustrated voters to get sick of the GOP doing nothing again, and the Democrats simply wait them out.
We have been in this repetitious abuse cycle for about two decades.
Battered Conservative Syndrome is a very real thing.
There are an enormous amount of codependent enabling voters in this process. I call them Seagull Republicans because they are voters who will fly down and shit over anyone who complains about this reality – then they fly up to their high perches and look down their noses.
In case you missed it, the Seagull Republicans are currently aligned to support Harmeet Dhillon and Ron DeSantis.
One UniParty consisting of two wings, the RNC and the DNC. One bird, two wings.
The GOPe priority around money is the one constant on the right wing. But don’t worry, because the Seagulls are promising that Ron DeSantis will protect us from teh geys.
Simple. Cut their budget with extreme prejudice.
Yep
Exactly. That’s the only response that will have an effect.
27.85 billion budgeted till June and then the budget battle begins.
Simply shut the whole government down and no back pay for anyone.
McCarthy can’t even defund NPR.
Money talks.
Didn’t Congress just ‘pay the all the budgets forward’ in the 2022 omnibus legislation?
There is no enforcement mechanism(s) for non-cooperative liberals, even with whistleblowers.
^^^ this^^^ They work for the people, not the other way around.
Of course if you cut their budget you can expect them to develop their own way of making money. Selling drugs, selling protection, selling elections are just a few of the ways they have to make money on their own.
Who does the cutting?
But who has the ability to cut the budget of Congress? Oh, that would be Congress. The only answer out of this mess is jury nullification, whereby jurors find the law itself to be invalid and independently decide what is justice. Check out The Quash podcast by Legalman. This guy is the only one with a clear analysis of how we might get out of this system. And it’s not by voting for lying, cheating politicians.
This was talked about a lot in December of twenty twenty.
Very suspect that these words are rarely seen since then.
Ban all FBI pensions. They’ll get the hint.
The Democrat controlled senate and the Obama controlled White House will never agree.
That’s what Congressman Massie said to me… shortly before the House passed the Omnibus Bill with McCarthy’s blessings.
Yeah…..I expect big changes with this new congress lol
Three little words:
No. More. Money.
They know the 2 best weapons against them
The first and second amendments
When are these 🤡
Gonna make thier move to abolish them?
It’s time to implement your suggestions, Sundance.
That’s all they got.
Start defunding the DoJ.
Power of the Purse they always claim.
The DoJ was created to attack regime enemies. It provides no actual service to Americans.
Cut off the money and see if the comply.
I hope something happens whereby we get a MAGA party to sit right in between the two fake ones.
Congress has the power to enforce it’s subpoenas. They have enforced subpoenas many times, including jailing a contumacious attorney general.
“Congress has the power to enforce it’s subpoenas.”
Using the DOJ. Well, that’s obviously a non-starter.
That’s incorrect. Congress’s power to enforce their subpoena is an inherent power.
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.
Yeah, but tell us, who’s gonna really do that and back it up? Whatever we may know is right, and what is the law; is not how it works. Fox news and whoever else gets certain political figures to come on and talk, pays them for it. It gets people to watch their ‘show’ to have some guy up on a soap box hollering at the crowds. And even if you did have someone genuinely committed to do some good; the whole rest of the Establishment will guarantee that that one is removed and publicly ruined. I don’t see many options left.
Why not Jordan and McCarthy?
another surrender monkey….it has always been this way with the Dimm/commies so let us just quit trying to do the right thing….frankly you are so willing to give up I am surprised you devoted the energy to a response so your lack of moral courage
That is what Peter Navarro’s trial is about – contempt of Congress.
wonder – will the House Judiciary committee chairman have the DOJ arrest DOJ people for contempt of Congress? that would be interesting to watch unfold.
The DOJ plays no role in Congressional enforcement of its subpoenas.
That is absolutely false. As pointed out here …
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-do-congressional-subpoenas-work
“Congress has three options to enforce subpoenas in face of defiance, but none are particularly appealing for lawmakers. Congress could pursue criminal contempt by asking the U.S. Attorney for D.C. within the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against a violator. … snip …
Another possible remedy is for Congress to file a civil lawsuit in federal court, requesting a judge to order compliance with the subpoena. This, however, can take months or years to resolve.
The third alternative is for Congress to use its own “inherent contempt” power by sending the Sergeant at Arms to actually detain subpoena violators. But this hasn’t been done since 1935, and is widely viewed as an extreme option, said Taylor.”
Now the first method would obviously be the best method, if the DOJ were still a non-partisan, reputable organization. But it isn’t. Hence my statement that it’s a nonstarter. As pointed out in the above link, … snip … “During Barack Obama’s presidency, the House voted to hold former Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress in 2012, but the DOJ chose not to prosecute.” That would happen if the House asked the DOJ to arrest one or more of it’s own.
The second method suffers from the fact that most judges are now controlled by the UNIPARTY and, as noted, it could take years to get a ruling. Plus, being a civil suit, the penalties would probably be minor. Overall, a waste of time if not a non-starter. Which is why it’s not been used.
The third method is the one you referred too, but as noted, the last time this was done was in 1935, and that being the case, experts seem to think this method is a non-starter too. The democRATS wanted to use it against Trump when they controlled both the House and Senate and didn’t. And if it were tried now, there would likely be a Constitutional crisis as a result … a crisis that would end up in the Supreme Court, which is again controlled by the UNIPARTY. Hence, another non-starter.
You trust NPR’s interpretation of law? ha ha
Look, there are plenty of sources that state that Congress normally goes to the DOJ to punish those that lie to them or resist subpoenas. And plenty of sources that state the solution j x suggested is antiquated and not something that experts think will work.
So Congress hasn’t used it’s power by sending the Sergeant at Arms to detain subpoena violators since 1935. So what?
Judicious use of power does not mean the power is lost. It’s time to use it again. If not now for this reason, when will it be used again?
Experts seem to think it’s a non-starter?
The value of expert opinions has seriously fallen in recent years.
Did any of you stop to check what the usual duties are of House Sergeant at Arms? That job description doesn’t sound like a person equipped to go and arrest DOJ officials. Do you even know who is the current House Sergeant of Arms of the House? His name is William McFarland and you know what he did previously. For one thing, he was Director of Security for the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and was a member of the US Capital Police … who were on the other side in the coup against Trump. And who appointed him to his job? Kevin McCarthy, a member of the UNIPARTY by all accounts.
And do you know anything about the several Deputy/Assistant Sergeant of Arms who generally carry out the order of the Sergeant of Arms? Are they the same people who were at the Capital on January 6th? I think it’s likely. And what did the House Report on J6 state? “The House Sergeant-at-Arms … snip … intentionally excluded Republicans from key meetings and conversations related to House security.” Sounds to me like the Sergeant at Arms organization was part of the J6 travesty.
And the Deputy Sergeant at Arms have a job description that doesn’t make them any more qualified than the Sergeant at Arms to go arrest DOJ officials? Here’s their job description: https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/assistant-sergeant-at-arms-police-services-law-enforcement-united-states-house-of-representatives-JV_IC1138213_KO0,58_KE59,97.htm?jl=1008414765303 .
If the FBI can raid PDJT’s home then the House can detain subpoena violators. Otherwise we are going to see 2 years of strongly worded letters and nothing else.
With what resources … if the FBI and DOJ object. Do you know how many people are on the staff of the House Sergeant of Arms? Think they can intimidate the FBI and DOJ who have the backing of the President and almost half of the House?
You’ve proved my, that the DOJ has no role.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the inherent contempt power, PBS experts notwithstanding.
to whet the reader’s appetite…
3 Hinds’ Precedents § 1666
Anderson v. Dunn, 19 U.S. 204 (1821)
McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927)
also see 6 Cannons’ Precedents § 339
Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 (1935)
Like I said, it hasn’t been used in over 85 years. Wonder why?
Can you not read English? “Congress could pursue criminal contempt by asking the U.S. Attorney for D.C. within the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against a violator.” That involves the DOJ. And that approach has been used previously. And when was the last time the Supreme Court affirmed the inherent contempt power? You think this Supreme Court is on our side? Rolleyes.
THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO.
Now go back to your Ryan, Jeb, Delecto, McConnell meeting of do nothing Republicans.
My my … aren’t you a testy one. Point to ANYTHING I’ve posted on this forum that suggests I’m UNIPARTY or happy with establishment republicans. And you didn’t say the DOJ aren’t required to do anything, you said the DOJ has no role. But clearly they do, if they want to have a role. They’ve repeatedly had a role in the past … so much so that the 3rd method … your method … went out of favor over 85 years ago. And you still haven’t addressed why you would trust the Sergeant of Arms organization when it was involved in the J6 scam and the new head of the organization is McCarthy’s man? You do agree that McCarthy is likely UNIPARTY, don’t you?
Too Late For Anything Else
Congress has only one real choice, cut the budget of both the FBI and CIA severely, otherwise they are broadcasting we will do nothing to support the middle class workers. It’s that simple.
Because Biden and Congress has raised the national debt to an unsupportable level.
Your only way to keep social security and medicare, is to affect the national debt in some very positive ways – now, otherwise you will need a civil war to force a correction or a military government.
All this talk about voting people into office seems unrealistic based on the midterm corruption and the immediate need for action.
“Congress has only one real choice, cut the budget of both the FBI and CIA severely, otherwise they are broadcasting we will do nothing to support the middle class workers. It’s that simple.”
If only it were. But as Sundance pointed out, their budget is guaranteed until 2024 thanks to McConnell, at which time the UNIPARTY intends to steal another election.
But I do think that the House should go ahead and pass a Rescission bill to take away FBI, DOJ and CIA funding, like they just did the IRS’ funding for the 80000 or so extra agents. It won’t get approved by the Senate or signed by Joe, but at least it would send a message and put the GOP members of the House on record.
“otherwise you will need a civil war to force a correction”
Not necessarily. Using the 2nd Amendment in the manner I’ve described on many occasions might be enough to get the correction the country needs.
“All this talk about voting people into office seems unrealistic based on the midterm corruption and the immediate need for action.”
I agree.
Your comments are very useful and so are Sundance’s, but we have a foundational problem.
Here it is – the FBI, DOJ and CIA do not need the funding from the U.S. taxpayer. Funding would just be redirected by Vanguard.
So you tell me, who is really “The fourth branch of government” ?
Who Runs The World? Blackrock and Vanguard
By Bill Sardi
April 21, 2021
Bloomberg calls BlackRock “The fourth branch of government”, because it’s the only private agency that closely works with the central banks. BlackRock lends money to the central bank but it’s also the advisor. It also develops the software the central bank uses. Many BlackRock employees were in the White House with Bush and Obama. Its CEO. Larry Fink can count on a warm welcome from leaders and politicians. Not so strange, if you know that he is the front man of the ruling company but Larry Fink does not pull the strings himself.
BlackRock, itself is also owned by shareholders. Who are those shareholders? We come to a strange conclusion. The biggest shareholder is Vanguard. But now he gets murky. Vanguard is a private company and we cannot see who the shareholders are. The elite who own Vanguard apparently do not like being in the spotlight but of course they cannot hide from who is willing to dig.
“Forbes, the most famous business magazine says that in March 2020, there were 2,095 billionaires in the world. This means that Vanguard is owned by the richest families in the world. If we research their history, we see that they have always been the wealthiest. Some of them, even before the start of the Industrial Revolution, because their history is so interesting and extensive, I will make a sequel.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/bill-sardi/who-runs-the-world-blackrock-and-vanguard/
“we have a foundational problem.
Here it is – the FBI, DOJ and CIA do not need the funding from the U.S. taxpayer. Funding would just be redirected by Vanguard.”
That’s certainly possible. Our government and financial system is arguably that corrupt. And if not Vanguard or Blackrock, then Cartel money (drugs and human trafficking). We know the Deep State has been involved in that too. Which is why I keep saying the solution to this is judicious application of the 2nd Amendment right our Founders wisely gave us … not Congress (by itself), not Trump (by himself), not elections, not the media, not sunshine, and not hopium. If we want to keep our country, it looks more and more like we’re going to have to fight to keep it.
Not necessarily. Using the 2nd Amendment in the manner I’ve described on many occasions might be enough to get the correction the country needs.
Vanguard, has the money, so the Amendment may not work. This time. Move the necessary funding through one or more NGOs.
“Vanguard, has the money, so the Amendment may not work. This time. Move the necessary funding through one or more NGOs.”
Second Amendment protected mass protests will send a message to the owners of Vanguard just as well as the would the Uniparty.
I don’t see why Congress needs to be using the DOJ to arrest DOJ people or obtaining access to documents/files/evidence.
If Congress has the sovereign right to impeach a federal official (eg, federal judge Walter Nixon), then what’s the BFD?
Well, for one, MAGA doesn’t control the Senate. Making that a non-starter too.
wait… Nancy Pelosi had her own police force didnt she? isnt that who Byrd (the guy who murdered Ashli Babbitt) worked for? arent those guys working for McCarthy now?
Good question.
And you think McCarthy isn’t UNIPARTY?
A fundamental difference exists between claims of executive privilege extending to presidential advisors and Congressionally created departments. In the first instance there is a separation of powers issue with Congress intruding on a president’s ability to obtain frank advice, in the second there is the obligation of Congress to oversee it’s creations.
Because all the information they need is now in the Public square; Sundance has provided fact, after fact, after fact. I do not believe the investigative committees needs anything more than the data Sundance has provided.
They just need the backbone to put sunlight on the truth.
You could send the Sgt at Arms, but that might end in a very embarrassing stand off Mexican standoff.
We’re still acting like ‘elections’ are real.
Yes. It’s like an extended stage of denial.
Remember how after they stole the Election, what a theater was made? Everyone who we thought was gonna “blow this thing wide open” was silenced and taken out of commission. Nothing has changed; they just made sure everybody stops talking about it. Look what happened in AZ.
yeah, we get what your solution is surrender monkey…..now that your point has been aired you can save your breath
Michael is right.
Where is Sydney Powell?
Who is governor of Arizona?
Where is Sidney Powell? Let’s ask Hans Gruber. “When they touch down, we’ll blow the roof, they’ll spend a month sifting through rubble, and by the time they figure out what went wrong, we’ll be sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent.”
Exactly. Our Country is in trouble when Rhinos and Republicans were silenced and didn’t fight for rectifying the
2020 Fraudulent JOE BIDEN ELECTION.
“…focus their efforts at getting documents from the private sector collaborators outside the DC silo system.”
I suppose twitter is a good place to go to. Elon seems friendly. Who else should they look at first. Any low hanging fruit?
“congressional capacity to subpoena agency documents from private organizations is not an adequate substitute for receiving them directly from the agency”
Congressional Investigations: Subpoenas and Contempt Power
Congressional Research Service
https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20030402_RL31836_2a88199d8814feaf26ce251548167d3aec437b9b.pdf
This should make Congress all the more determined to not cede power that it needs to do the job that needs to be done.
“Congressional Investigations: Subpoenas and Contempt Power
Congressional Research Service” – if that is to be cited as the rationale for not proceeding to obtain the information from other means if the Executive Branch will not cooperate, then I think this is another example of the “Administrative State” encroaching on the Constitutional authority of Congress.
Congress has the authority to impeach a federal official, so shouldn’t Congress have the authority to impeach a federal official for interfering in an investigation of federal officials?
While the federal executive branch is conducting itself in an intransigent and recalcitrant manner, if in the course of performing an investigation which Congress is entitled to conduct, then agency documents from private organizations can and should be used to see where information in those documents can lead to the truth of the matters being investigated.
If a document IS available for example, which would serve to exonerate an individual person charged with a crime, wouldn’t it be a crime, a serious fraud on the part of that person withholding that evidence? Shouldn’t the Attorney General of the United States of America be the acme of transparency and striving for rigor in upholding the Constitution?
Let us say for example an individual has created a giant Ponzi scheme which has deprived investors of millions and millions of dollars and the Ponzi schemer has managed to squirrel away many millions in places and with people sworn to not disclose the location of the ill-gotten gains and any proofs of their connection to the Ponzi schemer. Is someone allowed to “not tell” and so then they are not prosecuted and the money is not restored to the investors?
How can the wrong-doer in this case of weaponization of federal law enforcement authority stand pat in their refusal to cooperate, although obviously they do not want to cooperate any more than the Ponzi schemer would in an investigation that would lead to their being deprived of their loot and/or put in prison?
So do right, good people stand back and not pursue the Ponzi schemer who has broken the rules and flouted the duties of fiduciary trust and basically committed ultra-grand larceny so that he can go merrily on his way, developing new predations? Or does an investigation proceed nonetheless WITHOUT the cooperation of the Ponzi schemer? The answer to that is obviously yes.
So with the same rationale for justice and fulfilling their Constitutional duty, Congress should pursue the matter of the weaponization of federal authority in the executive branch within the various agencies under the pretext of law enforcement.
Congress has the authority to proceed and does not require the permission of the Executive Branch to do so.
Great post my friend!
Thank you!
I dunno, maybe the Chinese have some interesting information they’d like to share? But then again, they’re gonna probably demand some kind of guarantees we won’t be comfortable with. Probably better think of something else.
just full of suggestions to do nothing tonight aren’t you?
So lay out YOUR suggestions for us, Kroesus.
“Seagull Republicans?”
I call them “Clang Bird Republicans” because they fly around in circles until they disappear up their own ass with a loud clang!
When SNAFU is no longer enough, the FUBAR Brigade takes flight.
Mitch the Bitch is Queen of BOHICA.
The democrats have openly flaunted their “lawfare,” which is their way of declaring war on anyone not on their team. Time is coming when that form of warfare will pale in comparison to the real thing. They are pushing their luck! The citizens of this country have had just about enough and more are waking up every day.
But the Military leadership is with them! How do you propose? Where is the Continental Army? My opinion is, that the problem isn’t political, but spiritual and moral. There is a reason why God is sending these things on the world; and its not because everyone is like Job.
you raise the issue of God….those OF God have as one of their greatest assets a thing called HOPE……hope for now, hope for the future, and hope for eternity……I fail to see in your posts so far where you have displayed one iota of HOPE
Ah yes…Hopium – that’s sure to save us.
“What’s wrong with 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?” the old joke went. “There’s always room for more” was the reply.
After laying on the bottom for a while, they turn to Jello.
Parochial partisan racketeering at the Agency level likely triggers significant statutes already on the books. Otherwise the chain of command and the lawful bureaucratic order are turned upside down.
When the DOJ decides not to obey the law then there is no hope left for the country.
The modern post-JFK Democrats have long been about conducting politics as an ongoing criminal enterprise. Thing are worse because the sepsis spread and infected a preponderance of GOPe sycophants.
The Uniparty is a malignancy. The malignant tumor needs excision before the corpus of government dies a terrible death.
Should we be worried that has been the plan all along?
I watch and hear the Victorian Conceit of the Davos and provincial bureaucrats in the public and private sectors and their sycophants in our domestic governments. The apparent hatred of everyday taxpayers seems to progressively worsen with each revelation of their imperial ambitions.
Are we looking at a mass formation taking root among the governmentally employed?
Has the DOJ EVER obeyed the law, a few, very few honest men and women notwithstanding?
Sure there is. It’s called the Second Amendment.
Of course. They are all criminals. I didn’t think they would comply with FOIA requests, subpoenas, or actual questioning and didn’t know how this committee would gather any information. Without those, I could see this fizzling out after a few weeks and the Uniparty letting it fizzle. Showing again the ineffective bluster of the Uniparty.
Money corrupts. And we’ve allowed money to corrupt everything about elections and government officials.
Ok repugs, time to show me something. Not a strongly worded letter.
Show me something. Let me know our votes weren’t in vain. That you are going th address this issue.
Show me you can think outside the box. Maybe send in a Brigade of Army Rangers to get what you need. No more f$%&$#@ around.
And if I see that pic with the two elevator schmucks I’m going….
Sundance has covered all this. That is why his recommendations to republicans in congress should be adopted in total.
Sundance, Compare this congress with the congress that Pelosi set up after mid terms 2018 that you wrote about with all the rule changes, committee chairperson and other assignments and outside Lawfare brought in to support the committees in the Get Trump and Impeach Him efforts.
What absolute cowards.
Where are all the wiki leaks docs?
Just as McConnell relishes the minority party role (a crucial insight fleshed out over the years up here by SD), so too are House Republicans eminently comfortable with the histrionics of shown-to-be-trying-ness.
Anyone remember Geraldo Rivera bravely standing down the hurricane years ago, except off-camera you could see it was really just a storm in a teacup?
THAT’S the eGOP.
Call it Performative Quigleyism, an all heat-no light feature of the UniParty pantomime.
As they encounter a succession of Lawfare roadblocks, our gang will traipse over every Sunday to Mama Bartiromo’s show and cry into her apron about how very very hard they are Trying, but the system won’t give them the time of day (so please send money to support their Earnest Trying-ness since, what else ya got)?
Jordan and Goetz know this dance well. Gowdy and Chavetz were good at it too before moving over to the Faux News Performative Big-Time, effectively swapping soundstage seats.
Lawfare is the jurisprudential engine room of the UniParty, sort of the innermost circle of hell. The red wing of the UniParty are not outfitted with a comparable lawyerly brain-trust, and for damned good reason.
Ideologically, the Trotskyites are better predisposed anyway to gnawing through silly Constitutional exactitudes, i.e. doing the REAL work of the UniParty.
Gramsci called it ‘marching through the institutions’.
It’s left to ‘Our Team’ to do the Sunday morning gesticulating, even when they’re in power, to the extent the UniParty even condescends to sharing power with its two flapping wings, which it really doesn’t.
Television is what furnishes the wind beneath the wings. Take away its two perceptual semaphores –Faux and MSNBC– and the American UniParty is the CCP lookin atcha.
SD’s gonna have a field day especially as he appears to be our one-man Lawfare-of-the-right.
It’ll be cool to read him marshalling his considerable intellect against our foes, provided you can forget that, in real life, we’re on the Perpetually Sinking Boat.
So, great show…
unless of course some Canadian truckers, French yellow vests, Belgian farmers or Brazilian serfs were to rise up in our midst.
Seeing as this is America though, grand televised pretense and performative gesture ARE our best Risin-Up.
What, rise from the spectacle and miss the show? Nah, that’s a bridge too far.
Yep. Throw sunlight on it.
Definitly like SD plan the best. Much more meaningful and with lasting benefits to the America people.
That said – throw sunlight on this too…
There has been a large awakening in the people, and it comes after a longer period of frustrating with the administrated class, career politicians and fence sitting republicans.
The general public knows about, and any hard working “doer” has already felt the gamut of delay tactics. There is a knowing that there is better action available by the Republican congress.
Shoot! Even small business owners these days need to know how to hire a lobbyist or “consultant” to get anything done/approved. Small business lobbyist don’t “write”rules, they just know how to go above, quietly go to the person’s person of enfluence, or threaten media “sunlight” on the issue….
So you, Congress Republicans, fence sitters, Hannity’s – the people expect better, and we expect that you get the job done – or why are you there?
Great piece!
Convinces me the reason
wood shop is no longer taught is simple:
The countless new shops making gallows & wood stocks would have
Wall Street eating out of their hands within hours.
DEFUND THEM!
i.e.: OBSTRUCTION
Don’t know, can the house cut the DOJ funds without Senate/Biden? Honest question.
No. The House can’t do SHIZ without the Senate….that was the plan the whole time. Let the little dogs bark all they want, have no fear, they have no teeth.
Who could have ever imagined that Brandon would be capable of having his own “wingman”? No doubt strategically placed by The One. The Department of Just Us needs to be treated like the spoiled brats they are. Grow a pair you guys.
Berke and eisen have that ugly, evil, conniving look. You know what I mean.
Normie is the Father of the Color Revolutions.
No surprises here. The communists and the criminal gang are going to behave like communists and criminal gang. You decided to tolerate it America. You won’t vote your way out of this shit show.
Politico? Is that the same rag who also published the manifesto of how the DIMs were working with the gubt, media and the social media platforms to take down President TRUMP in 2019?
The hidden menace threatening Democrats’ bid to beat Trump in 2020
By Ryan Lizza
15 Oct 2019
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/15/dnc-election-strategy-disinformation-046839
The Congressional oversight committees should take the same tack as DOJ prosecutors do, that is, assume they are guilty until proven innocent of the violations to the Constitution they blatantly have committed.
Put the deep state on the defensive for once.
#DEFUNDTHEDOJ
Never seen a bird fly with one wing.
Someone other than Trump “might” fix or change things. We got to watch Trump for four years and the swamp got bigger. Fool me once, ok. Why should I trust you the second time?
No. President Trump revealed to everyone just how big the swamp is. Very few out here in the public had any idea.
He kept it from growing as fast as it is now.
Vote for whoever you want to, just remember we are supposed to be a Republic. A one person “fixer” is a dictator.
Yeah, right Doc. Let’s wait for Gavin Newsom to fix things.
There are a few things that really rile me up, politics wise. That picture of Berry Burke and Norm Eisen, with their smug “you can’t touch us…” look is in the top 10 for sure. I might be adding that Gallery of Republican Losers at the bottom of the post in the near future.
The repukes are either gonna talk tough and do jack shit as usual or act like men with the power enumerated to the house of reps in the Constitution and halt all monies for starters.
Duh….
Sundance, this post is informative and well constructed. Thank you.
You’ve laid out the obvious yet at the same time eye-opening contrast between Dems and Repub politicians in how they operate and behave.
It’s no wonder that the general citizenry is indifferent and numb to DC–they never deliver on their promises of better government and the nation’s problems never get solved.
The ray of hope that was Donald Trump which lifted me out of being depressed about America’s future has gone dark. I very much doubt he can ride in and save the day or provide a reprise. One man, as great as one man can be, cannot overcome the Uniparty structure that has ruined us.
So I’m back to my pre-2016 mindset, which is, burn it all down and help build up something worthwhile from the ashes of tyranny, deceit, and failure.
Didn’t the Communists in Russia burn it all down in 1917? How did that work out for the common folk?
I guess a key difference for us is the second amendment. So, if we wait for the last resort, i.e. burn it all down, then we better do it before we lose the second amendment.
I think there should be a major well organized strategy developed to fully expose and destroy the mainstream media. Not fix it ir “clean it up” – destroy it and rebuild it. The media was overtaken slowly and incrementally. Todays journalism graduate has absolutely no clue what real journalism is, rather they are simply trained left wing sycophantic activists.
The media is not dependent on advertising dollars. They are funded via huge infusions of corporate and political cash to maintain a culture of corruption and deception. Thats why they could not care less what their ratings are. Why cant we attack this structure from the inside out? If Trump “has info on everyone” why not use it to go after the power brokers in the media with a nonstop no-holds-barred no prisoner strategy?
There are three lawyers in particular I would like to see in jail:
Norm Eisen…the Lawfare guy
Mark Elias……the election fraud guy
Andrew Weissman….never met a Trump conspiracy he didn’t sign on to
“Ongoing investigation” shield deployed.
Every single one of those pictured aboive nothing but talking heads kicking the can down the road. I actually at one time had faith in Gowdy and Chaffetz as well as Issa…but none of them were any different, all part of the elite rat system brought in to cover up for the commie government of this country. I hope and believe Jordan is different, but how much help will he really get, and how much can he get out there. I hope he exposes it all. I don’t believe anything will be done, we don’t have the power…but we can get the info out there and wake more people up. The deepstate isn’t afraid of its own government…its afraid of us! They want us sleeping, divided and worrying or afraid in our everyday life. Or…dead or too sick from a jab to fight or worry about what they are doing to control our lives! What the House should do is whatever agency does not cooperate, cut their budget! Maybe if their departments were struggling to survive, you might get them to give a little…or just gut them! Like the FBI!
These are all lawyer litigation tricks. They can be very effective given that judges are too often stupid, lazy, or corrupt. Psychopaths love to practice law because so much of it is amenable to sophistry.
If the DOJ is too busy the solution is to hire an audit board of Congress attorneys and send them in to review documents. Take some has-been out of mothballs to lead it, like Mueller. The Congress needs to remind everyone that the DOJ is not the executive branch, it is merely overseen there. It is in fact a Congressionally created agency. There are ample examples of the DOJ failing to do its job, and this refusal to enforce law (think border) is a proper subject of audit by Congress. If they block, send Congress’ lawyers to audit all of their cases, especially the political ones. Steady drumbeat of their abuses would emerge quickly. Why? Because that is apparently their bully boy culture. They mimic the mob in their tactics. Make sure the costs of these auditing lawyers is paid from the DOJ budget. The more the obstruct, they less they get paid. Be prepared to have state AG’s arrest and prosecute US attorneys who have abused their power (likely all of them). Their arrogance will diminish with the reduction of their safety.
And if all this still doesn’t get it done, then you have a perfect track record to zero out their budget, and begin legislation to set up a new agency. Zero it out. Once at zero, they stop fighting back.
Permanent Washington, as Tucker correctly calls it in the cued video linked below, is in charge and has been for a very long time. As a result, voting on national and often even state issues is a joke as shown by the JFK assassination, the railroading of upstarts Nixon and Trump, and the results of the landmark Princeton University study from 2014 which I’ve posted about before. A few sentences from it:
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system [that describes the overwhelming influence of the administrative state and lobbyists – W], even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.
SO, ALL political fights are simply a diversion and will not be resolved in any way which substantially and permanently changes for the better anything significant. We live in an ILLUSION of representative democracy and most in our easily propagandized willful idiocracy either don’t know that, don’t care, or even prefer it.
SO, there are just two ways to get enough of that idiocracy riled up enough to DEMAND change:
1. An economic collapse which takes away their games and circuses, something which the powers that be will do everything they can to prevent because they know the danger of that for them. They prefer the “boiled frog” approach now in progress.
2. NOT allowing to fade away and even intensifying the justified anger aver the huge health damages and deaths caused by and which continue to be caused by a manmade virus that is now endemic which should have never existed in the first place created by a mortal enemy and covered up by US participants as well as the damages caused by fraudulently and inadequately tested experimental injections made against it allowed to be released by a totally corrupted government “public health” system.
Anything else will be as useless as previous politics-based efforts because, as pointed out by Ticker, Permanent Washington is in charge.
Garland is involved, so shouldn’t he be recusing himself yesterday?
And yet people who believe they are conservative still count themselves amongst the Republican roles.
The hypocrisy of that on a personal level is on par with the professional Republican class.
Do not deflect blame by complaining you cant control others. Get out of the party, set an example, live by that example. It’s called having principles.
This government is a cancer and needs to be dismantled.
This looks like a Wile E. Coyote moment for the DOJ . One guy to not mess with is Jordan.
More like David v. Goliath with truth in the slingshot.
Put on your red hats with pride and let the offended know that you don’t give a damn about their feelings and to go straight to hell!
Non responsive to Congress?…that’s obstruction…expect it frequently from this criminal enterprise…only answer is to cut funding asap that is if this new Congress has the resolve to right the ship for America and stop this runaway abuse of the Rule of Law…
Defund the DoJ and shut it down until they come to their senses.
Why don’t they say that they can understand why the DOJ cannot produce documents in a timely fashion because after all, they only have 115,000 employees?
There, I fixed it for you:
The Republicans want money. The Democrats want power. The Republicans use power to get money. The Democrats
use moneySTEAL ELECTIONS to get power. RINOs don’t care.This is a separation of powers issue. The legislative Branch has check power over the Executive branch. They need to use the tools at their disposal to enforce compliance. If they don’t use their power, it’s all a show.
The sole purpose of the Republicans in the House of Representatives for the next two years should be investigations. Forget about the debt ceiling, budget, defunding departments etc. Nothing is going to get through the Senate and signed by the President anyway. A total waste of time. They need to ignore the stonewalling by the Deep State, and demand the testimony and information they want. When they don’t get it then ask the Deep State to explain to the people what they’re so afraid of. What are they hiding that would make the American people upset? If they are so righteous and capable why wouldn’t they want the opportunity to show how their actions benefit the people? Use every opportunity to embarrass and humiliate, and let the people see who really runs the country, and how they do it.
Sundance, you’re absolutely correct about the republicans not knowing what to do. I said this when Trump first announced he was running in 2015. I kept asking people, if he wins, what was the plan? What was going to happen after four years? Or eight if the system allowed him to win a second time? People thought I was dumb. They were so stuck on him winning and turning the country around, they had no thoughts about the long term. After he won, I continued to ask what the long term plan was. Silence. Then he “lost” and look what happened. Even if he won a second term, it wouldn’t have mattered, because the republicans don’t have a long term plan to do anything. They sit on committees and talk a big talk, but we laugh at the run around responses they get from the people they demand sit before them in those committees. Nothing happens.
As a person who grew up in a behind the scenes Republican family, this is not a surprise. I predicted this scenario and here we are. I didn’t think President Trump would win in 2020, that there would be indictments, taking the Senate this term.
Dole and Lott sold out the Clinton Impeachment endeavor, the CIA took out Nixon, not one Republican called BS on Russia Russia Russia including Grassley and Johnson who had information in 2017 about the DNC working out of the Ukrainian Embassy to interfere in the 2016 election. Andrea Chalupa has admitted trying to hack into state election systems with Speedway Bomber Brent Kimberland. You cannot make this stuff up. Every lawmaker has tried to kill us with this Covid crap. We are also in WWIII.
How will the house counter the DOJ? I am sure these people are on it.