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🚨JUST IN🚨
The White House has sent a warning letter to incoming House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Robert Garcia warning that some of the new Democratic majority’s investigations could cross into criminal behavior.
The letter, penned by WH counsel Will Scharf, seems to be taking an aggressive stance which likely means the White House intends on getting aggressive for Democratic oversight when they take the majority.
The letter asserts that the Democratic probes will be aimed at harassing the WH rather than serve any valid legislative end.
"We are monitoring the abusive and capricious threats that are now proliferating from Democrat legislators who seek to abuse the legislative process to intimidate and to interfere with the lawful functioning of government. Recent public statements underscore these concerns. You and your congressional colleagues have asserted that they will issue subpoenas to harass, threaten, and deter dedicated members of the Administration from further service."
SOURCE: Punchbowl News
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Today we honor all who have served. Thank you, Veterans, for your courage and sacrifice.
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Democrats keep promising contempt referrals against this Administration's officials come January. Here's what actually happens to one, and why the Navarro case matters more than people realize.
Under the contempt statute, the referral goes to the U.S. Attorney for D.C. In practice, DOJ has treated prosecuting it as a discretionary decision, not a ministerial act.
In 2012 the House held Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt over Fast and Furious documents. DOJ declined to prosecute, taking the position that the statute can't be applied to an official asserting executive privilege at the President's direction. In 2022, DOJ declined to charge Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino. It charged Peter Navarro.
That asymmetry is the problem. Whether a senior adviser faces prison shouldn't depend on which administration's DOJ receives the referral, or whose adviser he was. Yesterday I said a senior adviser who stands on privilege in good faith shouldn't face a criminal contempt prosecution. The Holder precedent says DOJ agrees, and Holder's team agrees, but only when it helps their side.
That's why I filed in support of Navarro at the Supreme Court, and why Licavoli needs to go. If the Court settles the rule now, before the subpoena tsunami, the next fights over Stephen Miller or anyone else go where the Constitution sends them: negotiation and accommodation, and if that fails, a civil case. Not a grand jury.
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On Veterans Day we honor the courage, sacrifice, and unwavering dedication of the brave men and women who have defended our freedom and protected the American way of life. Our Nation is forever grateful.
God bless America's veterans! 🇺🇸
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Just one more reason why my appeal at the Supreme Court is so important. Jeff Clark is as good a lawyer as it gets - and the bastards took away his bar card. So read this and pass it on.
The White House Counsel's Office has now put the incoming Oversight Chair on written notice, and the letter goes straight to the controlling law. Quoting the Supreme Court in Watkins, investigations "conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to 'punish' those investigated are indefensible." Congress, it says, cannot use investigations "to exercise powers of criminal prosecution assigned to the Executive and the Judiciary."
That is the heart of what I've been calling Silly Subpoena Season. "Lawyer up" is not the language of legislating. It's the language of a unchecked prosecutor. And when members brag about handing out subpoenas like "candy" and "Mardi Gras beads," as the letter notes, they are building the record a court will read later when it asks whether a subpoena serves a valid legislative purpose. Mazars tells courts to look hard at exactly that, and at breadth, when Congress comes after the President's information.
Don't misread the letter as a refusal to deal. It's the opening move in the accommodation process, which is the Constitution's actual structural answer here. Name the legislation you're considering, tailor the request to it, and negotiate. If that fails, the fight belongs in a civil case.
What it doesn't belong in is a grand jury. That's why Licavoli has to go and why the Navarro case matters now. Oversight is a serious constitutional power. A subpoena is a tool for legislating, not a party favor or a frivolous festival bead.
@RealPNavarro
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The White House Counsel's Office has now put the incoming Oversight Chair on written notice, and the letter goes straight to the controlling law. Quoting the Supreme Court in Watkins, investigations "conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to 'punish' those investigated are indefensible." Congress, it says, cannot use investigations "to exercise powers of criminal prosecution assigned to the Executive and the Judiciary."
That is the heart of what I've been calling Silly Subpoena Season. "Lawyer up" is not the language of legislating. It's the language of a unchecked prosecutor. And when members brag about handing out subpoenas like "candy" and "Mardi Gras beads," as the letter notes, they are building the record a court will read later when it asks whether a subpoena serves a valid legislative purpose. Mazars tells courts to look hard at exactly that, and at breadth, when Congress comes after the President's information.
Don't misread the letter as a refusal to deal. It's the opening move in the accommodation process, which is the Constitution's actual structural answer here. Name the legislation you're considering, tailor the request to it, and negotiate. If that fails, the fight belongs in a civil case.
What it doesn't belong in is a grand jury. That's why Licavoli has to go and why the Navarro case matters now. Oversight is a serious constitutional power. A subpoena is a tool for legislating, not a party favor or a frivolous festival bead.
@RealPNavarro
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This is still your @FBI. It’s still a bunch of arrogant, incompetent people who believe they are above the law. The Brian Cole, Jr., debacle reminds me so much of what they did to Richard Jewell.
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🚨Trump’s Border Wall Nears Completion
By the end of Trump’s second term, the Trump administration is on pace to complete 1,418 miles of primary steel bollard wall, 708 miles of secondary steel bollard wall in high-traffic areas, 536 miles of waterborne barriers, and 536 miles of Smart Wall technology coverage in areas with otherwise impassable terrain.
Most importantly, Trump’s new border wall is set to become a permanent feature along the United States’ southern border.
In California, Arizona and New Mexico, the wall sits on the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot-wide strip of land owned by the federal government along the border. In Texas, the federal government has been acquiring private land through eminent domain. Once the government takes the title, the land stays federal.
And even if Democrats regain control of the federal government in the future, Trump’s border wall is set to remain in place. When construction was paused in 2021 under Joe Biden’s directive, the existing wall stayed up despite the Biden administration’s best legal efforts to take it down.
In essence, President Trump has not only illegal-alien-proofed the southern border, he’s Democrat-proofed it as well.
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I don't care if you hate/love Trump.
I don't care if you hate/love Democrats.
The issue is much bigger than that.
The DOJ is the enemy of the people.
The FBI is the enemy of the people.
The federal government has gone totally rogue.
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Democrats will lie, cheat and gaslight to win an election.
Two facts Americans shouldn’t ignore:
1) Democrat strategist Van Jones admitted that Democrats conspired, lied and hired paid influencers to push the narrative that Trump and Republicans were to blame for the lack of affordability. Yes, he bragged how Americans were gaslighted.
The fact is that Biden and the Democrats destroyed affordability inn America with record inflation.
2) The second fact is how quickly gas prices have declined after the election. Funny, isn’t it. Nothing has changed, except the election and gas prices.
Both issues need to be investigated. Who was part of this conspiracy to gaslight Americans, and who conspired with gas companies to keep gas prices artificially high to aid Democrats.
We’ve been lied to, fellow Americans.
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Impeachment Mania
No evidence, no hearings. And Democrats think it’s a free vote that scores political points.
The Secretary of War is charged with no real high crimes — it’s just a political swipe by a disgruntled and disaffected congressman and the Democrats are all too happy to go along for the ride.
The more educated we get, the stupider our politics and politicians become. Impeachment has gone from a serious matter reserved for real issues to a circus. As detailed in profiles in courage, one senator from Kansas saved the president and restored impeachment to its proper status. (Ironically over who can fire the Secretary of War)
If you want to censure someone or complain, fine, pass such a resolution. But enough Democrats should join with Republicans to return impeachment to its proper position. After all, what goes around comes around.
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They’re selling you a “bad Trump economy.” But the October jobs report blew past expectations by 2.5 times. Don’t believe the negative spin.
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My deep prayers and condolences to the family of Bob Boone, Bret, Aaron and the rest.. I grew up watching Bob with the great @Phillies teams of the 70’s.. His play and mastery of catching inspired me to want to play the position..God Bless..
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This week marks the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. For some reason, ZERO Democrats are pointing out how EVERYONE fled the Socialist side.
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RIP TO CLOSE FRIEND BOB BOONE PRAYERS TO SUE AND FAMILY MY ROOMMATE HAS PASSED ON GOD BLESS
