Once again, Justice Department seeks to pick winners and losers in American elections
Feb. 9, 2024, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden:
“The most disturbing element of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden was not that the Biden could not be prosecuted as a sitting president. That was to be expected based on Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinions from 2000 and 1973. It is that once again the Department of Justice is using prosecutorial powers and pronouncements to put its thumb on the scale of a presidential election, in this case by trying to push Biden out. The Biden special counsel report opining on the President’s mental capacity can be viewed as the equivalent of a prosecutorial death sentence to Biden’s presidential campaign. No one elected Hur, the Special Counsel, to do politics and this ongoing weaponization of the Department of Justice to pick nominees, candidates and eventual winners in our election system is frightening. Republicans and Democrats alike should join together to end the special counsel regulations to prevent future anonymous bureaucrats from playing major roles in determining who gets elected and who doesn’t in what is supposed to be a free and fair election.
“It absolutely understandable why in the face of the two-tiered justice system and eight years of the Justice Department’s abuse of Donald Trump that many Republicans are celebrating Hur’s pronouncement of Biden’s unfitness for office. But the real challenge facing our nation is that unelected bureaucrats are using their positions of trust to influence elections. Just as it’s inexcusable that Special Counsel Hur made his pronouncement on Biden, so too must Special Counsel Jack Smith’s tenure as Special Counsel also be ended. The mutually assured destruction against both parties engendered by the Justice Department and other intelligence agencies does grave damage to our nation’s belief that our electoral system is based on the consent of the governed.”
Attachments:
“Will the American people determine if Biden and Trump run for president—or the permanent state? Special Counsel Hur questions Biden’s ‘poor memory’ while Special Counsel Smith tries to lock up Trump,” By Robert Romano, Feb. 9, 2024, https://dailytorch.com/2024/02/will-the-american-people-determine-if-biden-and-trump-run-for-president-or-the-permanent-state-special-counsel-hur-questions-bidens-poor-memory-while-special-counse/
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