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The real constitutional crisis is the Democrats' disregard for justice courier-journal.com/story/opinion/… via @courierjournal
House Dems may soon hold AG Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over an unredacted version of the Mueller report. The redactions largely consist of grand jury material, which rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits Barr from revealing.
To appease the Democrats, Barr made an even more transparent version of his document available in a secure room at the Department of Justice that House members can view, but no Democrat — including Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler — has bothered to look at it.
Democrats plan to pursue a criminal contempt citation against Barr for failing to break the laws passed by Congress. I’d call it a kangaroo court, but I’m certain actual kangaroos are smarter than this.
Even worse, Democrats have again signaled that they intend to disregard the presumption of innocence for their political enemies.
As Dems bang the “obstruction of justice” drum stemming from Mueller’s defective write-up on the issue, Special WH counsel Emmett Flood made clear in a letter to the attorney general that Mueller has gone far outside the lane of what federal prosecutors are supposed to do:
“…'conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred’ was not the (Special Counsel’s) assigned task, because making conclusive determinations of innocence is never the task of the federal prosecutor.
“What prosecutors are supposed to do is complete an investigation and then either ask the grand jury to return an indictment or decline to charge the case. …
Prosecutors simply are not in the business of establishing innocence any more than they are in the business of ‘exonerating’ investigated persons.”
Flood continues, quite correctly: “In the American justice system, innocence is presumed; there is never any need for prosecutors to ‘conclusively determine’ it. Nor is there any place for such a determination.”
”Our country would be a very different (and very dangerous) place if prosecutors applied the (special counsel’s) standard and citizens were obliged to prove ‘conclusively ... that no criminal conduct occurred.’”
It is hard to take Democrats seriously about Trump defying the norms of the presidency when they are actively assaulting our justice system, hypocritically refusing to accept election results (see: Georgia), trying to eliminate the Electoral College and pack the Supreme Court.
Add that to Dem attempts to obtain Trump’s tax returns (which serves no legitimate government oversight purpose) and Cory Booker’s plan to use the IRS to investigate the NRA, a Trump ally, and you can see the kind of a justice-less world DemS are plotting should they win the WH.
Democratic attempts to weaponize the justice system and tax bureaucracy recalls the story of Johnnie Mac Walters, who served as IRS commissioner under President Richard Nixon. When handed a list of “enemies” to be harassed, Walters famously refused the order.
One wonders whether the next Democratic president will have more people like Ocasio-Cortez or Walters in their administration. Unfortunately, I think we know the answer. And it should scare the hell out of us.
