Today, on the Morning Update, the Trump White House put the next session of Congress on notice. If it abuses its power to harass Executive Branch officials without a clear legislative purpose, y’all might want a lawyer up too.
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Steve (00:00)
Welcome to your Friday, November thirteenth, two thousand and twenty-six morning update.
Lots of ugly business post-election, no denying it. We’ve talked about it a little bit here and there.
I guess the real question we want to ask, another real question, is: can we afford all these investigations the Democrats have planned? And is this strategy from the White House designed to save us money?
Quote; Writing to Rep Robert Garcia, Democrat of California, in a November 9 letter, White House counsel Will Scharf argued that Congress must identify a legitimate legislative purpose underlying its investigative acts, and that failure to do so represents a clear abuse of power and an affront to our constitutional system of government and to the rule of law.
Scharf said that recent public statements by Democratic legislators indicate that they are allegedly trying to abuse the legislative process to intimidate and interfere with the lawful functioning of government.
I guess all that online Trump hate they’ve been going on with for the last couple years, well, maybe that’s all gonna come up in discovery in some kind of legal challenge against their investigations.
I don’t think that’s going to slow them down or stop them, but it is an interesting idea.
Compulsory process is a power Congress has for oversight functions and only for oversight functions, the letter states. Abusive threats and public statements about the indiscriminate issuance of subpoenas, along with threats directed at prospective targets within the administration, make it abundantly clear that any forthcoming investigative process will be deployed to harass and aggrandize, rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.
In other words, we think all you’re doing is engaging in fear, lawfare, and intimidation. And based on the last few years’ worth of comments online and in public, you could probably say, Well, no shit.
The White House has come back and said to the people who are saying that they should all lawyer up that, well, you know what? Maybe you all ought to lawyer up too.
That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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