Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who serves on the Jan. 6 select committee, on Sunday said that it wasn’t inappropriate for President Biden to urge the Justice Department to prosecute those who defy the panel’s subpoenas, following the DOJ’s terse response to the President’s remarks.
Great, another far-left member of the Biden administration violates the Hatch Act by ordering the Justice Department to pursue groundless partisan prosecutions and witch hunts of innocent political enemies who deeply love their country!
Oh, wait…literally everything I just wrote is completely, completely the opposite…
One more nail in the coffin of the “Jan 6 committee is ineffectual!” canard. I’d say their messaging is coordinated, cohesive, and on-point. Bunch of those yet-unrevealed traitors should be very, very worried.
Trump was never about law except as a means to power. Once power is attained, “law” becomes “means to maintain power”.
We are lawful in the sense that “law” is meant to be separate from the enablement of corrupt individuals… That’s the way it has to be
"Yet unrevealed "… do you mean “individual one” per chance?
Biden didn’t ask or order the DoJ to prosecute anyone.
He was asked if he thought they should be prosecuted, and he said that he thought they should be.
The DoJ spokeman was out of line.
Anyone ask Kinzinger about his vote on Voting Rights Bill?
I didn’t think so…
Coley was speaking for the DoJ and its leader, AG Garland, when he said the Department “…make its own independent decisions in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law. Period. Full stop.”?
Hard to interpret this as anything other than a slap in the face of President Biden.
Laurence Tribe tweeted yesterday-
Just what we need: a Biden-Garland standoff! Yes, DOJ must be independent in deciding whom to prosecute . No, DOJ isn’t a separate branch of government. The President still sets policy, and it’s a policy decision whether to let people ignore duly issued congressional subpoenas.
What’s up with this?
Why does anyone really want to subpoena Trump ? He does not respect authority, creates his own reality bubble better than the late great Steve Jobs, and lies every time he opens his mouth.
The only sequence of constructive acts regarding Trump is to get the facts, refer him for prosecution to the DoJ, indict him, try him, prosecute him and lock his sorry fat ass up in a SuperMax for his protection. If he never says a damn thing during that whole sequence, it will be a blessing. Stop fucking around and gather the evidence to make the case to LOCK HIM UP. Everything else at this point is a WASTE OF TIME.
Insh’Allah.
The President, as the chief executive of the government, has overall authority over all its branches. Thus, he would be as much in charge of law enforcement as of any other function of the government.
It needs no defense.
Worked with a lot of folks who knew Jobs from Day 1 and they all stated firmly that he was an absolute shit.
Remember - the outcomes folks achieve can be significant, even if the folks are themselves shits…
I thought that too at first, but on further thought I don’t believe anyone’s in the wrong here. Biden is perfectly free to defend the prerogatives of Congress, including and especially having their subpoenas mean something. But I think the DOJ is within its rights to emphasize their independence in making these decisions. I think it’s pretty easy to conclude the entire administration is bending over backward not to even appear to be using the DOJ as a political weapon after what came before. So IMHO you’ve got two people talking about two important principles in what’s only seemingly a contradiction.
Of course—but the phrasing and timing of the DoJ response implies strongly that Biden was out of line and was asking DoJ to prosecute.
The DoJ spokesman needs lessons in better spoking.
OK, I think there’s some truth to that. It came off as a little grumpy and abrupt.
The GOP is already orders of magnitude wrong and, as usual, they are fishing for our impropriety.
And I am quite sure they are ecstatic to be musing about this as opposed to Biden signing into law meaningful legislation.
FDR had his naysayers, but the measures that he signed into law are what most people talk about and remember.