Jan 6th committee

Some of what was on Bongino's show and other places shows the kind of thing that should be front row and center on the news. Maybe it is, but you'd think otherwise on some of the pages I usually visit. Perhaps it is all being dismissed as politics.

It would be pretty easy to dismiss all of it as just politics as usual, but there no "usual" about all this. I've never seen anything like it, and I'm in my late sixties. There is something quite unusual going on in this country right now, and it should alarm a lot of folks, but it doesn't seem to.

No, if you follow the news, they are trying to alarm others about what others are doing, but not what they are doing themselves. Once again, it appears that they are targeting Trump even though he is out of office, and the thing has been already litigated to death.

Bongino says the Congress doesn't have the authority to do this. I would agree. It doesn't have anything to do with the power to impeach. Clearly, that boat has sailed. But there is a clause in the impeachment powers that forbid the one found guilty to be prohibited from holding an office of trust in the US government. That might be what they're after. To stop Trump from running again and assuming the office again.

It does appear that they're stretching even that beyond the snapping point. The Congress has the power to impeach, but not to hold trials and find people guilty of crimes. Only impeachable acts, and in the disqualification from holding office again. They tried that already. Perhaps the hope is to pass it off to the DOJ and get their own kangaroo courts to find Trump guilty of SOMETHING.

The Supreme Court might stop it all, but you never know about this court now. In fact, it is quite a disappointment. If the Court had acted properly prior to January 6th, none of this would have happened anyway. That's because the States cannot change the election laws that are reserved for the various legislatures. The excuse was COVID, but it should be obvious that it was done for political reasons. The Court should have disallowed those states that violated the election laws that state legislatures already decided upon before Covid. Changing election laws is the powers of the legislatures alone. Anybody should have been able to see that the executive authorities of those states exceeded their authority.

All of this behind a backdrop of bad polling of late. Could it be that the Democrats (and their allies in the GOP) are in big trouble, and this is a desperation move? Maybe it works in the sense that the rule of law is over, and they can finally rule without any accountability at all. If it doesn't, these people need to be broomed and have the law turned on THEM for a change. Justice demands it, if justice still exists in this country.