The Washington Post spells out the various plots and schemes that all amount to the same thing: taking a wrecking ball to our hallowed DOJ.
They are discussing a wide range of ideas, from funding cuts to investigating the DOJ’s investigation. And in the Senate, one is blocking votes on most DOJ nominees because of Trump's indictment.
Some of the usual suspects are working the hardest. For example: The Post cites Rep. Jim Jordan as “creating a list of directives to restrict FBI funding.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’ll introduce a directive to defund the special counsel’s office. Sen. J.D. Vance plans to hold up all Justice Department nominees. “We have to grind this department to a halt until Merrick Garland promises to do his job and stop going after his political opponents,” he reportedly said.
There will be attempted “investigations,” too. CNN reports:
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is exploring ways to force Jack Smith to testify or provide information about the special counsel probe of Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to multiple GOP sources familiar with his thinking. Jordan has already demanded the Department of Justice turn over a slew of documents related to the scope of the probe, which Jordan said he wants first, and the execution of the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. Even before the indictment, Jordan conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI official about the search.
Hunter, at DailyKos, points out that the obvious goal is “to share that evidence with Trump, either directly or by leaking it to the general public, and to identify key witnesses against Trump so that they can be publicly marked and demonized, and to tease out the direction of any ongoing investigative threads so that those, too, can be leaked and Trump's team alerted.”
So who’s really weaponizing and politicizing law enforcement?
Fortunately, Democrats seem ready. “The House Democrats’ campaign committee has already run billboards in 12 vulnerable Republican districts for threatening cuts to law enforcement,” The Post reports. Senate Democrats reportedly plan to push back on spending cuts, too, The Post said.
