Yesterday
during a hearing before the Judiciary Committee, we saw ample evidence of the blatant dual standards and the deep politicization
of the Department of Justice.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) led the charge, challenging Biden’s Attorney General on many fronts
Cruz
asked Garland about the inaction over the past 10 months after pro-abortion
protesters threatened and harassed Supreme Court justices outside their
homes following the leaked Dobbs decision
Cruz
reminded Garland of the federal law that bans “picketing or parading” near a
judge’s residence
Cruz chided
Garland for his inaction when ‘rioters descended on the homes of six Supreme
Court justices, night after night after night' and when far-left “groups posted
online information about where the justices worship, or their home addresses,
or where their kids went to school”
“But
did you bring even a single case against any of the protesters threatening
the justices, under 18 USC Section 1507 … or did the Department of Justice
decide this law doesn’t apply it if it is harassing justices for an opinion
that we don’t like?”
Cruz
rightly called it a case of political bias by Garland.
“Your
failure to act to protect the safety of the justices and their families was
an obvious product of political bias. You agree with Roe v. Wade. You
disagree with the Dobbs decision, and the Department of Justice, under this
president, was perfectly happy to refuse to enforce the law and allow threats
of violence.”
Garland
eventually conceded there had been no cases against protesters. He then hid behind the excuse that it
was up to local law enforcement, not him, to decide whom to prosecute.
Cruz disagreed with that comment
“You spent 20 years as a judge and you’re perfectly content with
justices being afraid for their children’s lives. And you did nothing to
prosecute it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZ6x3J0v40&t=445s
Cruz contrasted
that inaction with the DOJ’s prosecution of a Pennsylvania anti-abortion
protester, Mark Houck despite Houck
being acquitted
by a jury earlier this year for charges under a federal law that makes it a
crime to engage in certain behaviors at abortion clinics.
Cruz
reminded Garland about the dawn raid on Houck’s residence where over “two dozen
agents clad in body armor and ballistic helmets and shields and a battering ram
showed up at his house pointing rifles at his family”
Next, Cruz challenged Garland regarding the DOJ’s targeting of President Trump.
Cruz pressed
Garland over leaks following the FBI's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last
August. Cruz said he believed the leaks were "to set a predicate" for
an eventual indictment of Trump.
Next, it was Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Montana)'s turn
Hawley reminded Garland that the dawn raid was conducted despite a “Philadelphia DA, who is a Democrat, very progressive, declined to prosecute” Houck and the fact that a private suit against Houck was dismissed
Hawley
asked Garland about the rationale of his DOJ for deploying between 20 to 30 FBI
agents in the early-morning hours to arrest Houck when Houck had offered to
turn himself in voluntarily.
Garland
said it was his practice to defer to FBI agents in the field to make that
decision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cHm5T89dg8
Hawley contrasted that claim with the raid on Mar-a-Lago,
Hawley challenged Garland about a Washington Post report that FBI agents
initially resisted the idea that a court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago should
be necessary to retrieve the classified documents in President Trump's
possession, but Garland overruled their concerns and approved the raid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrOpLA-WRd0
We
see two instances of blatant dual standards.
Conservative Vs Liberal.
A dawn
FBI arrest by heavily armed agents broke into the home of an acquitted pro-life
activist but no action at all against those who threatened the lives of conservative Supreme Court
Justices and their families with violence.
A Republican President Vs A Democrat President.
An FBI
raid on President Trump’s home was devoid of basis because Trump's attorneys were negotiating
the return of the documents with the authorities. FBI agents were not keen on the raid yet Garland almost ordered them to. When classified
documents dating back to Biden’s days as Vice President were discovered, the DOJ
allowed Biden’s lawyers to take the lead and return documents based on wishes. Biden’s home was searched but not raided much later.
For all of these questions Garland either meekly issued denials or declined to comment regarding the criminal investigation. These are standard ploys of concealment and falsification when under oath.
This
was nothing short of a disgraceful display by Garland. He was brazen and
unapologetic regarding the blatant dual standards at the DOJ.
This
is undemocratic.
Only
under totalitarian regimes are individuals and groups targeted for their
political or religious or ideological beliefs.
A perfect instance of this style of the regime is East Germany in 1950 under the rule of German communists aided by the Soviet Union
In
East Germany, it was customary to relentlessly and baselessly persecute dissidents or anyone who wasn't a total conformist. The regime forcibly drafted
and co-opted law enforcement, the courts, and the media to conduct their
reign of terror.
Legal
egalitarianism where all citizens are equal before the law is a fundamental
tenet of any functioning democracy. The law must be enforced based on the violation and not based on who committed the crime or the motive behind the crime.
The goal behind this overreach is to silence all dissenters.
The Biden regime knows that most people neither have the time, patience, and most importantly the means to take on the
government. So they remain silent and live their lives privately while the loudest
liberals with access to the media try to convince everyone that their preposterous far-left beliefs
are the consensus.
The
Democrats are gnawing at the roots upon which America was founded.
The
hearing today is an important step, but it must not be conflated with action. If
there are no consequences these hearings become meaningless theatrics.
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