What An Incredible Coincidence

There are still many questions as to the legality of some of the actions taken by Jack Smith. There don’t seem to be a lot of questions about what he was trying to do, but some of his actions definitely walked the line between legal and illegal.

On Monday, Just the News posted an article about the timing of his seizing the telephone records of some Congressmen.

The article reports:

House and Senate Republicans targeted by former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenas were gearing up for significant oversight of both the Justice Department and the FBI when their phone records were seized.  

This raises questions about whether the subpoenas served a dual purpose—to investigate Jan. 6, as Smith was appointed to do, and to keep tabs on the oversight probes into agency conduct, one former representative whose phone records were seized by Smith suggested.

“They were trying to spy on us to see what we were doing,” former Rep. Louie Gohmert told the John Solomon Reports podcast. “And also, I think they were looking for anything that they could use to come after us, or hold over our heads, because, you know, you can intimidate the people that are coming after you.” 

The article concludes:

Even putting aside the government’s potentially meritorious argument that the calls over the relevant period — especially unsolicited incoming calls — would not constitute protected legislative acts, given my understanding of the low likelihood that any of the Members listed below would be charged, the litigation risk should be minimal here,” Keller wrote.

The Justice Department’s reasoning shows a blatant disregard for constitutional practice and balance of powers, Mike Howell, head of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, told the John Solomon Reports podcast. 

“Speaking in terms of, what’s the litigation risk? What could they even do, even if we violate this constitutional practice here, what’s the penalty? They’ll never be able to do anything to us. It speaks to a blatant disrespect for an independent branch of government, one that they probably rightfully recognize as atrophied over time, and being able to assert itself and hold the executive accountable,” Howell said. 

“It was not a problem whatsoever, because in the mindset of the FBI, [the members of Congress] defined Maga, and you know, Republicans as a domestic terrorist problem and threat, and treated them under the powers that we give the federal government to deal with things such as Islamic terrorism, and that’s the world in which they were operating,” Howell continued.

I just have one question–when will anyone be held accountable for the law breaking that has gone on since the Obama administration? I want to see some orange suits, and I believe I am not the only one!

Not Surprising

Yesterday Just the News posted an article about some of the surprises the Democrats have planned for their giant budget reconciliation bill.

The article reports:

Democrats might try adding amnesty for illegal immigrants to an infrastructure bill being pushed through as budget reconciliation, says John Zadrozny, a former Trump administration official.

“[U]nfortunately, there is a chance that could happen,” Zadrozny told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday. “And it’s difficult, in some ways, but I think it’s just something they want to do.”

Including amnesty in an infrastructure bill “is a remarkably honest move by the Democrats, because they’re using the infrastructure bill to build their future Democrat Party voter infrastructure,” he added.

“This is not about national security, this is not about building roads, this is about an amnesty,” said Zadrozny, who is the current director of the Center for Homeland Security and Immigration of the America First Policy Institute. “And so, that just means they’d like to add 20 to 30 million people to the voter rolls because they can’t convince Americans about their viewpoints.”

The Democrats are attempting to pass an infrastructure bill, while possibly including amnesty, as a budget reconciliation bill. Budget reconciliation, which Zadrozny said is supposed to be “for bills relating to spending, taxing, and the debt ceiling,” only requires a majority of votes to pass in the Senate, rather than the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster.

Zadrozny noted that Republicans will have to work together to block amnesty provisions. He compared the GOP to “an open mic night at a comedy club” where “everyone does their own thing.”

Democrats, on the other hand, “will march to death to achieve a generational objective,” Zadrozny said. He provided the example of Democrats passing Obamacare in 2010 at the cost of losing their majority in Congress during the midterm elections.

In January of this year, The Conservative Treehouse posted an article warning about the Democrats’ using the reconciliation process to pass amnesty. If that happens, America will become a one-party nation ruled by a bunch of power-hungry elitists.