SOMEONE NEEDS TO TEACH THE CONSTITUTION TO KEVIN MCCARTHY

(Congress Can’t Investigate State Prosecutors’ Decisions)

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has spoken out against Trump’s calls for protests if the defeated and disgraced former President is indicted by a New York State grand jury. However, McCarthy then shot himself in the foot by calling for Congress to investigate the motives and decisions of the New York prosecutors, relying on the thin reed that if federal money was used, there must be something wrong to investigate. (Note: there is nothing in any federal funding for local law enforcement that precludes charging former Presidents with crimes.) He’s teaming up with Rep. Jim Jordan of the bad haircut and no jacket, who is also one of the most Constitutionally ignorant people in the House, and believe me, there’s a lot of competition for that title.

I’m glad McCarthy is at least willing to break with Trump when it comes to violence, although he backtracked on his initial harsh comments about January 6 after Trump summoned him to Mar-a-Lago. Hope he shows more backbone this time.

However, someone needs to school him and that clown Jordan on the Constitution.

Where is the Constitutional authority to investigate or oversee state prosecutions? If there’s not probable cause for a criminal prosecution [like the prosecutors in Baltimore or in Georgia indicted on corruption (false financial applications) and obstruction [protecting the killers of an innocent African-American jogger) respectively] or a civil rights violation (think the George Floyd killer-cops) the feds have no authority to do anything. None at all! The Tenth Amendment makes that rather clear. Of course, one must have first read the Constitution to know this. Not to mention any state prosecutor could legitimately invoke the GOP’s favorite excuse for ignoring a Congressional subpoena: executive privilege. I doubt there is a judge in America who would complete prosecutors to disclose to Congress their charging and strategic decisions or other internal policies. That’s almost always up to state legislatures and state courts. (Check that Tenth Amendment again.)

The argument that this is a political prosecution and Trump is being selectively prosecuted are cognizable legal arguments which are to be made in court, not in Congress. The defendant, in this case Trump, would make the arguments pretrial, and would surely be able to raise it during trial. He’d be able to appeal through the highest court in New York, and if there are federal issues, he can either file a petition for certiorari with the supreme court or start a habeas petition in the federal trial courts and appeal his way up. Trump understands this and does it in every case. McCarthy and Jordan are dumber than Trump!

That’s what we mean by “federalism” and also “separation of powers.”

As I said, someone needs to school these clowns on the Constitution.

You can read a Yahoo News article about this by clicking below:

https://news.yahoo.com/mccarthy-says-americans-not-protest-023218831.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fb