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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,256 posts)
Fri Nov 18, 2022, 02:11 PM Nov 2022

Get ready for the Gym Jordan clown show

Republicans on House Judiciary panel focus on first White House target

With the House Judiciary Committee's gavel and subpoena power close at hand, Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, is getting ready to launch his first investigations of the Biden administration, starting Friday with what he has recently referred to as the administration's "anti-parent directives." It's the type of request from House Republicans that the White House is describing as politically motivated, as Republicans prepare to take control of the House.

In a letter obtained by CBS News, Jordan and Republicans on the panel made their first request for testimony and documents from the Biden White House since the GOP won control of the chamber. They wrote to White House chief of staff Ron Klain to ask White House officials to testify at the beginning of the next Congress, as part of a House GOP probe of what they say is the administration's "misuse of federal criminal and counterterrorism resources to target concerned parents at school board meetings."

House Judiciary Republicans want to know more about any actions the Biden administration took regarding an October 2021 memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland noting the "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff" and directing the FBI and U.S. attorneys to meet with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial leaders to address strategies for dealing with those threats.

The memo followed a September 2021 letter from the National School Boards Association asking the administration to investigate threats of violence against school board members that "could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-on-house-judiciary-panel-focus-on-first-white-house-target/ar-AA14h5Gg

Maybe the parents of the molested OSU wrestlers should have threatened domestic terrorism.
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Get ready for the Gym Jordan clown show (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2022 OP
K&R UTUSN Nov 2022 #1
It's been a poor act for more than a few years. republianmushroom Nov 2022 #2
Conservatives don't care about leading the country. Initech Nov 2022 #3
Hey Kids, it's Gymbo the Clown!!! Blue Owl Nov 2022 #4
" he'll be preening and peacocking throughout the hearings" lol Fullduplexxx Nov 2022 #5
Benghazi the Bidens!!!!!! moondust Nov 2022 #6
Wait EarlG Nov 2022 #7
we subpoenafauci,garland,hunter etc... moonshinegnomie Nov 2022 #8
Jordan is a fool, and he just proved it to everyone. Stuart G Nov 2022 #9
He will destroy himself...... Jade Fox Nov 2022 #10
And Garland will be delayed even further by them. GreenWave Nov 2022 #11
.... Diamond_Dog Nov 2022 #12

Initech

(100,107 posts)
3. Conservatives don't care about leading the country.
Fri Nov 18, 2022, 02:21 PM
Nov 2022

They only care about creating ratings and content for right wing talk show hosts. Fuck them all.

moondust

(20,013 posts)
6. Benghazi the Bidens!!!!!!
Fri Nov 18, 2022, 02:31 PM
Nov 2022


“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”

Kevin McCarthy’s Plan to Benghazi the Bidens

EarlG

(21,972 posts)
7. Wait
Fri Nov 18, 2022, 02:31 PM
Nov 2022

They plan to investigate Merrick Garland because he wanted the Justice Department to deal with a "disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff?"

Like, they expect people to be mad because Garland wanted to protect teachers from threats of violence?

Do they think it's a scandal that he wanted to do this...?

moonshinegnomie

(2,494 posts)
8. we subpoenafauci,garland,hunter etc...
Fri Nov 18, 2022, 02:35 PM
Nov 2022

their response?
1) executive privilege
2) plead the 5th
3) just refuse to testify and if teh house tries to prosecute for contempt it goes to the justice department to be ignored...

Jade Fox

(10,030 posts)
10. He will destroy himself......
Fri Nov 18, 2022, 02:46 PM
Nov 2022

Maybe that's too optomistic, but he is clearly a stupid inept little man with zero leadership skills.

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