According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is considering a plan that would let federal prosecutors investigate and indict members of Congress unfettered by traditional oversight designed to stop political persecution.

Traditionally, before such an investigation could proceed, a prosecutor would have their case reviewed by the lawyers in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. But that would go away under the new proposal.

The report notes that, should the proposal go into effect, “a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted” would be shunted aside and allow possible prosecutions based purely on politics.

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    4 days ago

    By federal marshals who don’t give a fuck. Because they already did it to a state judge, they’ll go after federal next.

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        4 days ago

        What is, de facto, stopping them, if they decide the Constitution and the law are toilet paper to wipe their asses with?

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          I’m not wasting anymore time explaining the basics of what the constitution is to people who don’t feel free to inform themselves and just doomNgloom bullshit in the comments like this.

          Absolutely ridiculous.

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              3 days ago

              Ermagosh!! You’ve totally caught me in a moment, and I absolutely cannot deal with my own inability to prove myself to someone who is too lazy to read about the thing they are trolling about because of their laziness.

              BRB I’ll go kill myself 😫😭😫