Rep. Trey Gowdy To AG Jeff Sessions: Congress Will Investigate A Politicized DOJ

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) told Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday that Congress is opening an investigation on the politicized DOJ.

JH -- Under Attorney General Sessions the Department of Justice has ignored any criminal behavior by Hillary Clinton or the Obama administration while launching a Special Counsel to investigate Donald Trump and Russia — a complete Democrat Party hoax.

Trey Gowdy told Sessions Congress will investigate the Department of Justice.

Rep. Trey Gowdy: I get, I guess, that certain departments are inherently political. But the Department of Justice should not be. I tell you that up front that Chairman Goodlatte and I are going to be looking into the decisions made in 2016 and 2017. And I think I can speak for him and I know I can speak for myself my motivation is a love for that department.

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Blog Author's Comments: At one time I considered Trey Gowdy among the few in Congress who I thought were good, hard-core lawmakers within the GOP - and I still do - who actually wanted to make a difference and attempt to go after some of the slime and muck that resides within our government and seems to grow even more rapidly. People have asked about the hearings Gowdy has conducted and how many indictments, trials and convictions have resulted from all of his previous investigations? It is my understanding that Congress has little to no authority to prosecute. They can present the evidence they have accumulated and recommend that the Department of Justice make the decision to proceed with an indictment, but if the DOJ chooses to do nothing, then that is what happens, nothing. The people that should find themselves in deep trouble do not pay any penalty or suffer any consequences for their actions.

Because of AG Jeff Sessions - Rosenstein and Mueller have essentially taken over the Justice Department and now we and President Trump have lost one of our four short years to actually make a difference in the country and to possibly secure for the Party and the country that they would have Trump for a second term. Sessions was a good Senator but has shown that he is an extremely weak Attorney General. Until he is gone and we see what the special counsel, Robert Mueller and his liberal group have come up with, nothing will have been done except what President Trump has been able to do on his own. This may indeed be the last chance the Republican Party had with full control of the government. But, because of the Russia Collusion scam, Mueller, and the infighting within the party the time is being wasted.

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Boehner: House Won't Use Its Power To Arrest Lois Lerner

The Hill -- The House has held Lois Lerner in contempt, but it won’t use its power to place the former IRS official under arrest, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday.

Under a precedent affirmed by the Supreme Court, each chamber of Congress can authorize its sergeant-at-arms to detain individuals it holds in contempt. But Boehner said on "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo" on Fox News that he has no interest in doing that with Lerner, whom the House last week voted to hold in contempt over her refusal to testify about her role in the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.

“I’m not sure we want to go down that path,” Boehner said. “It’s never been used,” he said of the provision allowing Congress to arrest individuals and place them in the Capitol jail. The Senate has in fact used that power, but not in the last 80 years. “I’m not sure that it’s an appropriate way to go about this,” Boehner said.

The contempt charge has been referred to the Justice Department, and Boehner said it is up to Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Lerner.

“Now will he do it? We don’t know, but the ball is in his court,” Boehner said.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has said it is reviewing the referral. Lerner has repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, but the House contends she waived that right by defending herself in an opening statement at a House hearing last year before she refused to answer questions from lawmakers.

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Blog author's comments - So Boehner won't issue an arrest warrant for Lerner if Holder fails to prosecute her. The GOP controlled House apparently will do nothing about the IRS head Lois Lerner who was deeply involved in the IRS's targeting of conservative groups and held in contempt by the House. But Boehner passes any decision on what Lerner is guilty of or punishment for what she did to Eric Holder's DOJ.

Eric Holder himself was held in contempt of Congress for failing to produce documents subpoenaed by Congress in connection with the Fast and Furious gun-running investigation. Does anyone think Lerner will receive any penalty imposed for wrongdoing for what she did by the DOJ? I don't believe Lerner initiated what the IRS did. I think she was told what to do by perhaps Harry Reid and President Obama. So along with Fast and Furious the IRS scandal will go ignored and most of the voters will forget about them.

Those who want to be our leaders are the first to run when faced with any serious battle. When you are fighting for the country and your political party, you use every weapon at your disposal. The Democrats understand this, it would be nice if our Republican leaders also figured this out. Boehner doesn't have the leadership ability or the courage to stand up to the Obama administration or the liberal press. The only reason I can see John Boehner taking the position he has, is to put the onus on the Attorney General Eric Holder to treat the case against Lois Lerner with the seriousness it deserves.

450K Sign NAACP Petition For DOJ To Investigate Trayvon Martin Shooting

Orlando Sentinel -- Nearly 450,000 people have signed a petition created by the NAACP after a jury found George Zimmerman not-guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin Saturday, calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a civil rights investigation.

"A jury has acquitted George Zimmerman, but we are not done demanding justice for Trayvon Martin. Sign our petition to the Department of Justice today," read a note accompanying the petition on MoveOn.org, which partnered with the NAACP and urged people to sign on its site as well.

By mid-afternoon Sunday, the petition had garnered more than 275,000 signatures on the NAACP site, and the petition by MoveOn.org drew almost 175,000.

The petition, created by NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, and addressed to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, calls for the DOJ to file "civil rights charges against Mr. Zimmerman for this egregious violation."

On Sunday afternoon, a DOJ spokesperson released statement, which read, in part:

"As the Department first acknowledged last year, we have an open investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin...Experienced federal prosecutors will determine whether the evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal criminal civil rights statutes within our jurisdiction, and whether federal prosecution is appropriate in accordance with the Department's policy governing successive federal prosecution following a state trial."

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Blog author's comments - I would not be surprised if the AG Eric Holder and the DOJ file a civil suit against George Zimmerman. Holder and Obama are hearing a lot of noise not only from the NAACP but also the liberals and race hustlers who do not want this case to end the way it has. They were sure that Zimmerman would have at least been found guilty of manslaughter. They did not get what they wanted and will not rest until they have exhausted all that they can do and will continue to stir the pot of racism. The NAACP wants a sacrifice to their right of entitlement and that is George Zimmerman.

The case should have never come to trial and Zimmerman should have never been charged with 2nd degree murder. I really don't believe Trayvon Martin meant that much for many of the people screaming for ‘justice.’ They are attempting to use his death as an example of what they will always see as wide spread racism towards black people of this country.

Shouldn't some of the most vocal critics be more concerned about the many young black men who are being shot almost every day in most major cities in the country? Not one of these so-called legal experts has expressed any outrage over the 72 people shot and 12 killed in Chicago over the 4th of July weekend. Why is that I ask...it may be because none of the shootings in Chicago involved a "white" person pulling the trigger.

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