#GymJordan has demanded reams of documents from #Stanford, including RECORDS OF STUDENTS discussing #socialmedia posts as they volunteered to help the #Internet Observatory, & Stamos testified before the #House#Judiciary Cmte for 8 hrs. #Trump adviser #StephenMiller’s #law firm filed a #FirstAmendment lawsuit in May 2023 against the Observatory, Stamos, DiResta & others, which is still pending.
#House Speaker #MikeJohnson has a tendency to think that when things go bad for his party, it’s the product of gross legislative mismanagement, judicial #weaponization, & a vast executive #conspiracy. But when his party wants to do something, it’s because #justice is swift & everything is proceeding according to plan. #HouseRepublicans’ efforts to hold AG #MerrickGarland are no exception to this trend.
AG #MerrickGarland used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tues to forcefully defend the #DOJ against “repeated attacks” from #Republicanlawmakers that have undermined investigations & put federal employees in #harm’s way.
“Justice is no longer blind in America. Today it’s driven by politics. Example number one is President Trump,” #Republican#House#Judiciary Cmte Chair #GymJordan said at the hearing.
Rep #JerryNadler, the ranking #Democrat, ripped his #GOP colleagues on the cmte for becoming “little more than a field office for the #Trump campaign. …These #Republicans don’t care about what’s in the interest of the American people. They just care about getting their favorite #felon back in the WH.” 🔥
At what point is this #sexualAssault facilitator and carnival barker going to do the job he was actually elected to do? #GymJordan is a perpetual #clown who brings shame to our #Congress everytime he opens his mouth. His boneheaded antics make a mockery of the nation's premier legislative body. 🤡
Jordan & Comer will sue & under McGahn they'll be held up for maybe several yrs
Scott MacFarlane:
NEW: DOJ DECLINES to turn over audio of Spec Couns Hur's interview w/ Pres Biden to House Oversight Committee Republicans
In letter to Committee, DOJ says, "The Committees’ interests may not be in receiving info in service of legitimate oversight or investigatory functions, but to serve political purposes that should have no role in the treatment of law enforcement files.."
#FaniWillis responds to Jim Jordan, arguing her office has fully complied with his congressional subpoena:
"[N]othing that you do will derail the efforts of my staff and I to bring the election interference prosecution to trial so that a jury of Fulton County citizens can determine the guilt or innocence of the defendants." #GymJordan
#GymJordan: Ms #Willis, did you have an ill-advised, albeit consensual relationship with a man?
#FaniWillis: Mr Chairman, you’ll hear people say from time to time how they can’t help who it is they fall in #love with. Less common are expressions of how easy they find it to ignore for years the cries of athletes under their care being abused by their doctors at #OhioState University. Next question.
#EJeanCarroll's lead attorney threatened SANCTIONS against Trump lawyer Alina #Habba over her "utterly baseless" claim that a federal judge had an undisclosed conflict of interest. #legal#Trump
Habba's conflict claim is based entirely on a single-anon source story in NY Post.
Carroll's lawyer ques how the tabloid came to publish it & if the supposed partner at Paul Weiss — the firm where she and the judge both worked— "even exists."