McCarthy Threatens Technology Firms That Comply with Riot Inquiry
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#2Isn't this a serious crime?
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#3Isn't this a serious crime?
Providing phone records of elected officials to their political opponents without a court order? Seems like it.
Or did You mean what they are hoping to find in the phone records?
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#4Isn't this a serious crime?
Providing phone records of elected officials to their political opponents without a court order? Seems like it. Or did You mean what they are hoping to find in the phone records?
I mean I'd consider organizing a coup to stop the peaceful transfer of power would certainly be considered a crime. Especially when some of the members are actively planning t have another go at it(https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/a...)
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Providing phone records of elected officials to their political opponents without a court order? Seems like it. Or did You mean what they are hoping to find in the phone records?
I mean I'd consider organizing a coup to stop the peaceful transfer of power would certainly be considered a crime. Especially when some of the members are actively planning t have another go at it( https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/a... )
Yes indeed that would be a terrible crime. I am so glad it was not achieved, the US is fortunate that the government was able to fight off the insurectionists and lock up all those awful people.
Although, a simmilar situation took place in Hong Kong but I guess those terrorist were on the right side of freedom, right?
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#6Isn't this a serious crime?
Yes, they are investigating a serious crime.
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#7Isn't this a serious crime?
Providing phone records of elected officials to their political opponents without a court order? Seems like it. Or did You mean what they are hoping to find in the phone records?
I'm not an expert especially on avenues to challenge, but the House Select Committee has subpoena powers
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean I'd consider organizing a coup to stop the peaceful transfer of power would certainly be considered a crime. Especially when some of the members are actively planning t have another go at it( https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/a... )
Yes indeed that would be a terrible crime. I am so glad it was not achieved, the US is fortunate that the government was able to fight off the insurectionists and lock up all those awful people. Although, a simmilar situation took place in Hong Kong but I guess those terrorist were on the right side of freedom, right?
I really don't care what's happening outside the borders. It's pretty irrelevant. All I care about is a certain party here organized a coup and now threatening private players of dire consequences if they followed through with the subpoena.
(Laughably, they did the same thing 4 years back to try to bury a political opponent. Nothing happened. https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/143307082899280281... )
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Providing phone records of elected officials to their political opponents without a court order? Seems like it. Or did You mean what they are hoping to find in the phone records?
I'm not an expert especially on avenues to challenge, but the House Select Committee has subpoena powers
The legal argument against a subpoena, such as it were, rests on the Constitution’s speech-or-debate clause, which states that “for any Speech or Debate in either House,” members of Congress “shall not be questioned in any other Place” (emphasis added).
The clause dates back to 1689’s English Bill of Rights, which was designed to prevent the monarchy from using criminal and civil laws to bully legislators critical of the Crown.
The Democrats are attacking their opponents for challenging the results of the election, something that has occurred after every election by both sides for time and memorial.
I wonder how much longer they are going to try and make hay from Jan 6th? Probably right up until the midterms which is over a year away.
But it's not my fight anyways, I live in Canada now and we are going into our own election which will probably result in our own set of challenges, big lies and inquiries as canadian politicians seem to mirror the US political attack strategy.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes indeed that would be a terrible crime. I am so glad it was not achieved, the US is fortunate that the government was able to fight off the insurectionists and lock up all those awful people. Although, a simmilar situation took place in Hong Kong but I guess those terrorist were on the right side of freedom, right?
I really don't care what's happening outside the borders. It's pretty irrelevant. All I care about is a certain party here organized a coup and now threatening private players of dire consequences if they followed through with the subpoena. (Laughably, they did the same thing 4 years back to try to bury a political opponent. Nothing happened. https://twitter.com/robertjdenault/status/143307082899280281... )
If the Democrats really believe that their opponents organized a coup then the US has bigger problems ahead.
It is possible that the Republican members encouraged a political protest that unfortunately turned violent and got out of hand but that is not a coup and is no worse than the Democrats fundraising to bail out BLM rioters.
I wouldn't be supprised if Congress awards themselves medals for surviving the "Great Insurection of Jan 6th." What a bunch of calamity callers.