According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering a plan that would let federal prosecutors investigate and indict members of Congress unfettered by traditional oversight designed to stop political persecution.

Traditionally, before such an investigation could proceed, a prosecutor would have their case reviewed by the lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. But that would go away under the new proposal.

The report notes that, should the proposal go into effect, “a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted” would be shunted aside and allow possible prosecutions based purely on politics.

    • wanderingmagus
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      32 months ago

      What is, de facto, stopping them, if they decide the Constitution and the law are toilet paper to wipe their asses with?

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        I’m not wasting anymore time explaining the basics of what the constitution is to people who don’t feel free to inform themselves and just doomNgloom bullshit in the comments like this.

        Absolutely ridiculous.

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            12 months ago

            Ermagosh!! You’ve totally caught me in a moment, and I absolutely cannot deal with my own inability to prove myself to someone who is too lazy to read about the thing they are trolling about because of their laziness.

            BRB I’ll go kill myself 😫😭😫

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            Do better research and understand more. Stop being willfully ignorant.

            Example: what is the US if a rogue politician tries to dissolve the Constitution? It’s certainly no longer a union, meaning DC doesn’t get anymore money from the states.

            Stop being intentionally ignorant, and start reading.

            • @[email protected]
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              you get a civil war, where that money is up for grabs if you can do enough violence to the other side. with control of the formerly-federal military in the hands of the goon dissolving the piece of paper, …

              idk bro it really just seems like thoughtless cope. try therapy or smth idk

              • @[email protected]
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                12 months ago

                Lol, you apparently haven’t thought about the organization of states, and who really funds this country. Do better.

                Block

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                  2 months ago

                  mfw i catch unironic “do ur research:” 👩‍🔬

                  tyrants hate this one weird trick (what’s actually in the constitution will shock you)