DOJ Has Plan To Allow Trump To Indict Lawmakers Who Oppose Him

The US Department of Justice is currently working out a plan that would give Donald Trump unprecedented authority to indict lawmakers who oppose him. The plan is fairly complicated, but it involves removing the guardrails involved in investigating and prosecuting sitting lawmakers, leaving complete discretion to the US Attorney – who is appointed by Donald Trump. If implemented, we could see a flurry of new “investigations” right before midterms next year, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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Donald Trump's Department of Justice run by his handpicked attorney General Pam Bondi, is considering changing the rules for political prosecutions to make it easier for Donald Trump to investigate and indict his political enemies that are still currently serving in office. Here is what the proposal, as we know it is right now, and it is important to remember this is just a proposal at the moment. It has not officially been adopted, but if they've gone through, you know, this much work, putting together their plan, you could pretty much go ahead and assume it's gonna happen eventually. So here's what's going on. As it stands right now, prior to this proposal, any investigation and eventual charging and prosecution, indictment, whatever of a sitting politician, whether it's in Washington DC or anywhere else around the country, is typically done by the US attorney, who of course is appointed by the president.

But in order for these things to go forward, we also have what is called the public integrity section of the DOJ and this public integrity section, which for some reason has the abbreviation, PIN, instead of PIS. Well, maybe we know why. But anyway, it's their job to be the watchdogs, to provide the guardrails for the US attorney's investigation. And if this public integrity section says, Hey, you can't move forward with charges, then they can't move forward with charges. If the public integrity section says, Hey, listen, it's too close to an election, you cannot do an investigation, you can't launch one, you can't end one, you can't make any announcements, then the US attorney cannot do those things. The DOJ proposal quite simply does away with the public integrity section, which would give a US attorney again appointed by Donald Trump, unilateral authority to just launch investigations into Trump's political enemies. They could go out there a month before an election and say, Hey, you know what? Let me do a press conference to announce that I am conducting an investigation into potential political corruption of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. I'm gonna conduct an investigation into Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Just the announcement, just the announcement of an investigation, as we all know, has the potential to derail somebody's entire campaign. Hell, it could end their political career even if they've done nothing wrong, even if it results in no indictments. It doesn't matter for the American public. When it comes to

Politicians, the appearance of wrongdoing is typically proof of wrongdoing, whether any actual evidence exists or not. By dismantling the public integrity section of the Department of Justice, you are taking away the one safeguard that we had to prevent the executive branch from interfering in elections. And again, this has not been finalized, it hasn't been implemented, but if they have gone this far to make these plans to come up with these ideas and put 'em in paper, then you better believe by the time midterms roll around next year, this will be the official policy of this administration.