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Insisting Department of Justice Comply with Requests and Subpoenas

Floor Speech

Date: June 28, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Operations Criminal Justice

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Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise in opposition to this resolution, which is a Republican attempt to delay and derail the Mueller investigation.

Mr. Speaker, what we have today is a Republican President who is under criminal investigation. We have a Republican-led House of Representatives that is doing its best as a cult following for the President to help him thwart the investigation, help him stop the investigation.

So what this is all about today is to pass a resolution that would result in the Justice Department, which is conducting the investigation of the President, to turn over documents that go to the heart of the investigation.

Now, why do they want the Department of Justice to turn that documentation over to them? Well, so that it can be leaked, leaked to FOX News, get back to the President, and then the President will be in a much better position to do what he does when it comes to being investigated criminally. And what it all adds up to, ladies and gentlemen, is politics trumping justice.

You never investigate an investigation that is ongoing. You wait until that investigation is over, then you judge the investigation as to whether or not it was fair.

So everything that the Republicans are doing here today is against justice; it is against the rule of law; it is against the Constitution; and it is against the America that we all hold dear.

This is a stretching, a warping of the power of the legislative branch. They are seeking to use their power to put their heavy thumb and hand on the scale of justice.

I heard one of my colleagues say that justice should be blind, and, yes, Lady Justice does have a blindfold on so that she cannot see. What these Republicans are trying to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is to remove the blindfold on Lady Justice to let Lady Justice reveal an injustice, to let this President use Lady Justice, as he has used women in the past, to take away the sanctity of this Nation.

Mr. Speaker, this is hurtful to our Nation. I would ask my colleagues on the other side to please think about what they are doing.

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