https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4702914-speaker-johnson-justice-system-trump-conviction/Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced a “three-pronged approach” Tuesday to go after the justice system following former President Trump’s conviction.The plan, according to Johnson, includes using the appropriations process, legislation brought to the floor and Congress’s oversight authority to take on the Justice Department.“All those things will be happening vigorously, because we have to do that, because the stakes are too high and because people are losing faith in our institutions,” Johnson said at a press conference. “And that, at the end of the day, is something that should concern every single one of us. And I think it does.”The Speaker’s rollout comes less than a week after a 12-person jury found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The case centered on a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels.Johnson and other Republicans have railed at the verdict, accusing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) of having campaigned on prosecuting Trump, and taking aim at Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness, as untrustworthy.House Republicans have already begun carrying out elements of their three-pronged strategy.Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced he would “demand” that Bragg and Matthew Colangelo, another prosecutor on the hush money case, appear for testimony about “the unprecedented political prosecution” of Trump.
Jordan fired off a letter Monday to House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) asking that his panel include a number of “reforms” in the government funding process this year, such as nixing funding for the FBI “that is not essential for the agency to execute its mission,” eliminating federal funding for “state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in lawfare” and getting rid of federal funding for federal prosecutors taking part “in such abuse.”Johnson re-upped his argument Tuesday that the prosecution — and ultimate conviction — of Trump represented an attempt by Democrats to hurt the former president’s chances of winning another four years in the White House.“They see this happening, and they’re so desperate to stop them that they are willing to use the judicial system to do so,” Johnson said, referencing polling that shows Trump leading Biden in key states. “It is a new low. And it’s a dangerous one.”“They’re eroding the people’s faith in our system of justice itself. As [House Republican Leader Steve Scalise] said, people have to believe that justice is blind. You have to believe that there is equal justice under the law in order to maintain a constitutional republic,” he continued. “This goes to the very core of who we are. the foundation of who we are as a nation, and that’s why it’s bigger than just President Trump. It’s bigger than just these cases. It’s about our system itself. And because of that there is a backlash.”
"Felons are people Too" DNC decides to longer believe felons are people
Republicans are freaking out that the law applies to everyone. Shame, shame.
A God cannot be guilty of a crime.Libtards BTFO
>>1301683I concede and bend the knee
>>1301652you do realize the crime issue has been a state and local issue with city prosecutors being faggots and the FBI doesn't deal with crimes that affect people right?
>>1301652>"Tough on crime" GOP decides to no longer be tough on crimeIsn't this good for the left? The left loves crime so much they made it legal in various areas like California. Drugs? Legal. Theft? Legal. Arson? Legal if black. Murder? Legal if black. Want to be an illegal immigrant? Biden has your back, as do liberals with amnesty. Now crime is a bipartisan good! Both parties can openly fuck law abiding citizens and lionize criminals! Even better is we can defund the police now, we don't need a police state anymore now that crime is legal!Ah, but that is gonna suck for authoritarian lefties trying to usher in their commie police state. Kinda hard to do that when there is no police.
>>1302111>Theft? Legal. Arson? Legal if black. Murder? Legal if black. Want to be an illegal immigrant? Biden has your back, as do liberals with amnesty. In what state is arson, theft or murder legal?
>>1302111>The left loves crime so much...as do MAGAtards. More so, unless they say of their orange felon 'Lock Him Up'.Was Bannon's crime a violent one, thus justifying justice jamming him in jail...?!If not, then you know what must be equally done to Don.
>>1301655Nobody is saying Trump isn't person. We're saying he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Laws don't apply to animals. Ask a dolphin if it gives a shit about anti-rape laws. It will just rip your rudder off and leave you to drown.
>>1302112>In what state is arson, theft or murder legal?Texas given the governor pardoned that guy that went hunting protestors and state agents are out leaving death traps on the border that would get anyone else in another state convicted if they set it up on their property and someone died.
>>1302176But that plays well with the GOP base
>>1302175Stop pretending you give a shit about the law unless it's to fuck over your political opponents.
>>1302112Democrats not only believe arson should be legal, they also believe arsonists should be allowed to legally murder anybody who tries to put out the fire. See Rittenhouse and the Dems' reaction
