mmarsh
Active member
A search of the home of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La) has sparked outrage from Congress Republicans as a gross violation of the seperation of powers clause constitution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/washington/24cong.html?hp&ex=1148529600&en=9cbee32e22757f9d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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First of all, Representative Jefferson is most likely GUILTY (the FBI caught him on tape), he was a slime before this bribery case, even Nancy Pelosi cannot stand him. He's another Duke Cunningham, the sooner he's gone the better and that seems to be the opinion of BOTH parties. So I not here to defend Jefferson.
But even if he is corrupt, what part of the Constitution gives Bush the right to launch his own investigatations of members of Congress. The Constitution provides protections specifically against this sort of thing. The normal procudure is that the Justice Department (which reports to the Presidencey) requests 'permission' to search Congress people. Bush sought no accord, he simply acted without informing anybody. Here is yet ANOTHER example (wiretapping, illegal detention, etc) of Bush blatently ignoring the Constitutional limits of his authority, and for political reasons to boot.
As most of you know, I have no love for Conservative base. So I would like to salute Congressional Republicans such as Mr. Hastert and Mr Boeher for tempararily putting away ideologic/political differences with the Democrats and voicing their fury at this gross breach of the Constitution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/washington/24cong.html?hp&ex=1148529600&en=9cbee32e22757f9d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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First of all, Representative Jefferson is most likely GUILTY (the FBI caught him on tape), he was a slime before this bribery case, even Nancy Pelosi cannot stand him. He's another Duke Cunningham, the sooner he's gone the better and that seems to be the opinion of BOTH parties. So I not here to defend Jefferson.
But even if he is corrupt, what part of the Constitution gives Bush the right to launch his own investigatations of members of Congress. The Constitution provides protections specifically against this sort of thing. The normal procudure is that the Justice Department (which reports to the Presidencey) requests 'permission' to search Congress people. Bush sought no accord, he simply acted without informing anybody. Here is yet ANOTHER example (wiretapping, illegal detention, etc) of Bush blatently ignoring the Constitutional limits of his authority, and for political reasons to boot.
As most of you know, I have no love for Conservative base. So I would like to salute Congressional Republicans such as Mr. Hastert and Mr Boeher for tempararily putting away ideologic/political differences with the Democrats and voicing their fury at this gross breach of the Constitution.