Yes the Feds are protecting Joe Biden and rather successfully to. Don’t see how justice will ever be done. Even if impeached he will not be removed from office by the Senate. If he or any member of his family is charged he (Biden) can merely wait until the last moment (even if he loses the ’24 election) and issues presidential pardon(s) for himself and all charged family members. Likewise he can refuse to fire and or pardon (if charged) Garland and the FBI director if need be. The only strategy I can think of is charge them (the bidens) but hold back some charges in case he pardons them wait until he is no longer president (if he loses) and then implement said held back charges.
“Republicans should provide the Biden administration with a list of acceptable prosecutors, “people who are beyond reproach” and give them the full authority to investigate everything related to President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and the rest of the family, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Friday.”
“Republicans should provide the Biden administration with a list of acceptable prosecutors” ?! Dershowitz must be kidding..the Republicans need to appoint a special prosecutor on their own will full prosecutorial authority to bring charges and prosecute them in court. Otherwise nothing will happen.
I think to Dershowitz’s point, the Congress doesn’t have to power to appoint a special prosecutor. Only the Executive can do that. Separation of Powers. Hence the odd proposal that the Republicans present the Biden WH with a list of acceptable prosecutors. There are only two sticks Congress can use to get the WH to go along with that weird proposition. 1) The Republican controlled House can refuse to appropriate any more money to run the government. Forcing the WH / Executive comply or to put the members of the Executive on a temporary unpaid leave of absence. Yes a government shutdown. By a quirk (I believe of our Constitution) all appropriation bills to raise money for the operation of the government must originate in the House. 2) They can say special prosecutor or else the House will start impeachment hearings on select members of the administration. That would be the current AG and possibly others. In fact there is no reason there couldn’t be multiple concurrent impeachment hearings in the House. The only restriction is that that by rule, impeachment hearings can only be conducted through the judiciary committee. That will keep them very busy and likely tied in knots as much as possible by the Democrats on the committee. Of course with the current makeup of the Senate any trials would guarantee an acquittal. So its only an exercise to coerce the Administration into compliance. It didn’t work with Clinton nor Trump and probably won’t work here. There is an election coming. Speaker McCarthy will probably continue the hearings and committee investigations going to keep this in the public eye through the next election cycle. The media is a diverse entity now. It’s no longer just the Big-3 Networks. And it isn’t a monolithic tech sector / social media either. With Elon now running Twitter and there are others as well (Locals, Substack, Rumble, …)
Perhaps we need another amendment to the Constitution (after Congressional term limits) that forbids the President from issuing a pardon to anyone who has not yet faced charges or been convicted in a court of law. If you truly want no one above the law. But I’d have to give that idea some thought. But in return, the country needs elected officials who won’t outlaw and imprison their political opposition as soon as they get power. You cannot have a Republic without responsible citizenship. Adams and Madison knew this and wrote about it. A despotic people can only be ruled by a despot.
“I think to Dershowitz’s point, the Congress doesn’t have to power to appoint a special prosecutor.”
I didn’t fully realize that; how powerless Congress (and the courts) are in this situation. The only special prosecutor Garland would appoint is one who is guaranteed to drag it out as long as possible and then only indict on the weakest offences (if that). Sounds like are only hope then is to have the Republicans in the House gather such a mountain of incriminating evidence (well on our way with that) such that Biden loses in the primaries. The point when his rivals like Newsome start vigorously attacking him. Or if he wins in the primaries (because the low information voters getting their info from MSNBC/NPR/CNN etc. and don’t appreciate how crooked biden is) dump him at the convention. I believe the dems have a “superdelegate” system of un-pledged delegates that can be marshalled at the convention to get rid of someone who is unelectable. If Garland justice dept then doesn’t indict/charge then one advantage to that is that biden (presumably) can’t pardon himself or family members who haven’t been charged yet. Of course that would still require the Republicans to win POTUS or we would still be roughly where we are now.
From your link:
“Any real political journalist with access would be pressuring the White House daily to explain what services Joe Biden’s son, brother and grown grandchildren — and virtually every other member of his family — rendered foreign entities in Romania, China and Ukraine that were worth over $17 million.”
The answer lies with part of the way elections are “rigged”; any journalist “rude” enough to ask an unapproved provocative questions like that would find themselves banished from the elite white house press corps.
I’m simply shocked, shocked!
Yes the Feds are protecting Joe Biden and rather successfully to. Don’t see how justice will ever be done. Even if impeached he will not be removed from office by the Senate. If he or any member of his family is charged he (Biden) can merely wait until the last moment (even if he loses the ’24 election) and issues presidential pardon(s) for himself and all charged family members. Likewise he can refuse to fire and or pardon (if charged) Garland and the FBI director if need be. The only strategy I can think of is charge them (the bidens) but hold back some charges in case he pardons them wait until he is no longer president (if he loses) and then implement said held back charges.
“Republicans should provide the Biden administration with a list of acceptable prosecutors, “people who are beyond reproach” and give them the full authority to investigate everything related to President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and the rest of the family, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Friday.”
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/dershowitz-biden-trump/2023/07/21/id/1128022/
“Republicans should provide the Biden administration with a list of acceptable prosecutors” ?! Dershowitz must be kidding..the Republicans need to appoint a special prosecutor on their own will full prosecutorial authority to bring charges and prosecute them in court. Otherwise nothing will happen.
I think to Dershowitz’s point, the Congress doesn’t have to power to appoint a special prosecutor. Only the Executive can do that. Separation of Powers. Hence the odd proposal that the Republicans present the Biden WH with a list of acceptable prosecutors. There are only two sticks Congress can use to get the WH to go along with that weird proposition. 1) The Republican controlled House can refuse to appropriate any more money to run the government. Forcing the WH / Executive comply or to put the members of the Executive on a temporary unpaid leave of absence. Yes a government shutdown. By a quirk (I believe of our Constitution) all appropriation bills to raise money for the operation of the government must originate in the House. 2) They can say special prosecutor or else the House will start impeachment hearings on select members of the administration. That would be the current AG and possibly others. In fact there is no reason there couldn’t be multiple concurrent impeachment hearings in the House. The only restriction is that that by rule, impeachment hearings can only be conducted through the judiciary committee. That will keep them very busy and likely tied in knots as much as possible by the Democrats on the committee. Of course with the current makeup of the Senate any trials would guarantee an acquittal. So its only an exercise to coerce the Administration into compliance. It didn’t work with Clinton nor Trump and probably won’t work here. There is an election coming. Speaker McCarthy will probably continue the hearings and committee investigations going to keep this in the public eye through the next election cycle. The media is a diverse entity now. It’s no longer just the Big-3 Networks. And it isn’t a monolithic tech sector / social media either. With Elon now running Twitter and there are others as well (Locals, Substack, Rumble, …)
Perhaps we need another amendment to the Constitution (after Congressional term limits) that forbids the President from issuing a pardon to anyone who has not yet faced charges or been convicted in a court of law. If you truly want no one above the law. But I’d have to give that idea some thought. But in return, the country needs elected officials who won’t outlaw and imprison their political opposition as soon as they get power. You cannot have a Republic without responsible citizenship. Adams and Madison knew this and wrote about it. A despotic people can only be ruled by a despot.
“I think to Dershowitz’s point, the Congress doesn’t have to power to appoint a special prosecutor.”
I didn’t fully realize that; how powerless Congress (and the courts) are in this situation. The only special prosecutor Garland would appoint is one who is guaranteed to drag it out as long as possible and then only indict on the weakest offences (if that). Sounds like are only hope then is to have the Republicans in the House gather such a mountain of incriminating evidence (well on our way with that) such that Biden loses in the primaries. The point when his rivals like Newsome start vigorously attacking him. Or if he wins in the primaries (because the low information voters getting their info from MSNBC/NPR/CNN etc. and don’t appreciate how crooked biden is) dump him at the convention. I believe the dems have a “superdelegate” system of un-pledged delegates that can be marshalled at the convention to get rid of someone who is unelectable. If Garland justice dept then doesn’t indict/charge then one advantage to that is that biden (presumably) can’t pardon himself or family members who haven’t been charged yet. Of course that would still require the Republicans to win POTUS or we would still be roughly where we are now.
From your link:
“Any real political journalist with access would be pressuring the White House daily to explain what services Joe Biden’s son, brother and grown grandchildren — and virtually every other member of his family — rendered foreign entities in Romania, China and Ukraine that were worth over $17 million.”
The answer lies with part of the way elections are “rigged”; any journalist “rude” enough to ask an unapproved provocative questions like that would find themselves banished from the elite white house press corps.