Democrat Warns Attorney General Pam Bondi Could Face Prosecution If Epstein Files Aren’t Fully Released By Deadline
8 months ago by Sunflier to c/politics
I think she might be going a little deaf. Anytime anyone mentions the files she just keeps asking “Pardon Me?"
Chuck Schumer pulls his glasses down slightly to show his extreme disappointment.
You forgot the protest video where they listen to the Hamilton soundtrack in solidarity with all the people starving and being abducted to concentration camps.
While kneeling in African garments.
And the small signs of dissatisfaction.
Do they count to three?
Only when it's when it doesn't matter if they're successful at counting that high
Considering the Dems don't control the House, Senate, or White House, the only power they do have currently is promising future prosecution if they take back one of the branches of government. The Republican-led congress and White House are obviously not going to do anything.
I'm no big fan of the Democrats, but historically they are willing to get rid of their own when even accused of wrongdoing. See Senator Al Franken for the silliest example of this.
Republicans will not, in the vast majority of cases, do the same.
So basically politicians in the ruling government
Well yes and no. If you are thinking of it like a parliamentary system don't. We don't require the formation of a government through a majority party of coalition.
Each representative is elected to an existing body and they have to figure it out.
So theoretically you can have multiple combinations on which party controls the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency. Honestly we don't even have to have parties you could have every seat filled by politically unaligned independents.
Currently all elected offices in the federal government are controlled by the Republicans. They will not remove their own party's president.
But theoretically in the mid terms the democratic party could become the majority in the House and the Senate. The president would of course still be the same. But they could then attempt to remove him from office through impeachment.
It's a confusing mess, but yeah that's the US system
The problem is that you have a majority on the Supreme Court that are blatantly abusing their power and ignoring the law when it advances their side's agenda, including just declaring the president to be above the law.
This would be the kind of thing that should lead to impeachment, but that requires a supermajority in the senate (because you don't want whichever party has a majority to be able to easily abuse the impeachment process) but that won't happen because every single republican with even a hint of integrity has been pushed out by Trump over the past decade. And even if there were Republicans that weren't entirely corrupt, dismantling your own Supreme Court majority would be a tough sell politically. And even if they did remove the existing justices, it would just mean that Trump would get to appoint new ones that would be much worse and with many more years ahead of them.
And with Trump filling the executive branch with the worst scumbags he can find, chosen specifically for their willingness to be loyal sycophants who won't let ethics or laws get in the way of doing his bidding, you aren't going to get any help there. Again, this is exactly why the senate has to approve appointments but they are also scumbags right now. And for the same reason, the impeachment that should be happening for basically every member of this administration are not coming.
All that being said, there is resistance coming from both the executive and judicial branches. This administration has been firing people illegally in part because it can't get them to do the illegal shit they want them to do. And those illegal actions and the related illegal firings have been taken to court and the administration has lost nearly 95% off the time. Sometimes the Supreme Court has stepped in to bail them out, but in most cases the ruling stands and the administration has eventually complied.
All of which is to say that, while there are many flaws both big and small in the American system, it isn't the system itself that is at fault here, it's the elected officials and the corrupt assholes they appointed. There is no system that will work when every branch of government is in the hands of people who ignore their ethical and legal obligations.
It's past the deadline already no? She was told to release documents, and instead she released rectangles. One would expect someone at her age to know the difference between English letters and big rectangles.
I thought the deadline was yesterday. Did we give a new deadline? What makes them think this deadline would be any different?
Edit: the article is from yesterday.
It should be "will face prosecution", not "could"
Democrats will do nothing, even if they do Pam won't face any ramifications, this is all performative.
Yeah but they're like, closer to doing something, right folks?
If it is, it's definitely going over Trumpie's mush brains.
Please for the love of god throw this idiot in prison for life
That would explain why she's not going to go to prison.
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Face prosection from who exactly? Pam Bondi controls indictments for tampering with evidence and Congressional contempt actions are referred to the DOJ which then go to... Pam Bondi.
It was a shit system in the first place, designed to consolidate power.
I guess it's just a strange thing to threaten: "watch out or you'll be in trouble with yourself"
"Get off my property before I have you arrest yourselves for trespassing"- Hacker in the show Cyberchase
I dont think they have to be refered to the DOJ if congress doesnt want to. Also, Iirc, theres whats refered to as civil contempt, and congress can just vote to order the seargent at arms to lock her up (they can even keep her in some random room on premises if they want) until she releases the unredacted files.
Not only does this bypass any dependence on the executive and judicial branches; it bypasses their ability to interfere on Bondi's behalf- she is considered to 'hold the keys to hwr own cell,' (as in she can release the files at any time and be freed) and it is considered non punative- there is no right to appeal and no sentence /crime to be pardoned.
Prosecution by whom? Point to the person who will be prosecuting any of these fucks.
They don't do it as an individual. They appoint a special prosecutor. Though, I get your point. They did that under Trump 1, but it didn't pan out. The only other cure I can think of is the guillotine.
They can also physically hold someone in contempt.
As in call her back in appear in front of thw house, then just have the seargent at arms lock her up in some random room 'until she releases the unredacted files.'
My understanding is that this is considered non punitive and therefore non-appealable or even pardonable.
I believe all it takes is a majority vote, which considering 427-1 vote on the initial act, I could see them getting.
We can modernize that to AR15s.
Maybe she's just polite like that?
I'll believe it when it happens and even then I'll expect her to get off with no punishment
Look, the only crime that white people get prosecuted for is if they harm a richer white person.
She's safe.
Just release another random hundred pages of blacked out text with the appropriate headers. Would be the same as releasing the files, nobody would be able to tell the difference. Nothing of substance will be given to the public.
On █████████, Jeffery Epstein's communications with ████████████ and ██████████ confirmed the █████████ of ████████. In a private █████ exchange, ████████ discussed the █████████ of ████████ for ███████. The ████████ was then scheduled to ██████████ with █████████, and would then meet up with Bill Clinton at the █████████ of ██████████. Flight logs for flight ██████ corroborate the meet up between Bill Clinton and █████████.
Further investigation into ████████ revealed the █████████ with █████████ and Bill Clinton. █████████ Obama ████████████ purchase █████████████ Bill Clinton ████████ and Do███████████████. ████████████████████████
Come on, Ro. You're one of the few Dems who might pull this off. Get after it.
Edit: https://www.denver7.com/...
Looks like he did the thing. It won't go anywhere.
She has the presidential pardon trump card. (Badum ts)
Yeah. We knew they weren't going to release anything, the whole point was to create a situation where Trump's lackeys like Bondi who are in charge of these supposedly independent organizations break the law and can therefore be held accountable for following illegal orders.
Make sure to vote in the midterms folks.
Could. But won’t.
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then just fuckin' do it! She damn well knew that she was breaking the law, so hold her to account! they don't give a damn about your empty threats.
DO SOMETHING!
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