Litman: The GOP wants to burn down the Justice Department (via latimesopinion)
Jack Smith, the prosecutor named as special counsel to oversee investigations related to ex-President Trump, has a career confronting public corruption and war crimes.
MAGA banner-carrier Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, called for the House in the next Congress to cut off funding for the investigation. “Jack Smith and his buddies.” What does that even mean except an attack on the whole of the department?Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland needn’t — and shouldn’t — hand off to a special counsel the criminal investigation of the former president.
Friday’s pile-on reveals that the GOP is working from an already formulated script that neither facts nor the law can change. For the rest of Joe Biden’s first term, the most orthodox or routine Justice Department decision will be flogged as a political scandal, with no regard for the specific merits of the cases. It’s just who Republicans are now: transparently politicizing and hyperpartisan actors.
The investigation and prosecution of a U.S. president or a former president poses intrinsic challenges, but it’s something that a mature democracy has to be able to take on, a lesson that Watergate drove home nearly 50 years ago.The Republican Party’s vaunted red wave turned into a ‘red wedding.’ And it’s their own fault.
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