A tea party activist says the new GOP-controlled House of Representatives might use an 1800’s-era law to force the Justice Department to respond to efforts aimed at getting fair treatment of the January 6 prisoners.
In December, a group of more than two dozen Ohio conservative leaders signed a letter to Representative Jim Jordan, asking the Ohio lawmaker if the Judiciary Committee – of which Jordan is now the chairman – could expose the plight of the January 6 political prisoners who remain incarcerated in a District of Columbia jail. The group suggested that the committee invite the prisoners themselves and/or their family members to testify to Congress about the unjust treatment they have endured over the past two years.
“While they will most likely not be able to testify about what they did on January 6th, because of their current legal cases, that is not our goal,” the letter explains. “Instead, we think that it is critical for your Judiciary Committee to expose the injustices and cruelty committed by members of our Government on American Citizens since that day.”
Tom Zawistowski, the primary signer of that letter, is president of the tea party-affiliated We the People Convention and the Ohio Citizens PAC. He says the new Congress could use the Holman Rule to force the DOJ’s hand. First adopted in 1876, the Holman Rule was recently reinstated by the House Republicans for the 118th Congress. As the GOP’s rule change document explains, it would allow “amendments to appropriations legislation that would reduce the salary of or fire specific federal employees, or cut a specific program.”
“[It] hasn’t been implemented in many years,” Zawistowski notes, “but it allows Congress to literally say We’re reducing Christopher Wray’s salary to a dollar until he comes and testifies or until he provides these documents.” Wray is director of the FBI.
“And then in a bigger level … we think the court system in Washington, DC, should be abolished because it can’t be anything but corrupt,” he adds.
Zawistowski shares that Jake Lang, one of the J6 prisoners, told him he had “zero” chance of getting a fair trial in the nation’s capital.
“[Lang told me] there’s no chance of winning. I [asked him]: So, what about an appeal? And he made it clear to me that it would take years for them to get in front of a judge in the appeals court,” he tells AFN.
According to Zawistowski, that means a presidential pardon is the only solution for the J6 prisoners. “We have to win the 2024 election, and the president we elect is going to have to pardon them,” he concludes.
Got my support.
Strange, how the Jan 6th folk, often WHO ONLY did things like put feet on desks, or walked the halls in funny head dresses, are being treated WORSE than literal domestic terrorsts like Antifa have been..
“We’re reducing Christopher Wray’s salary to a dollar until he comes and testifies or until he provides these documents.”,,,,,,,he should not only not be paid even a dollar, but be fined for abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and enabling of costly government corruption in his officiating malfeasance while in office which favored one political party and corrupted acts to be ignored, while abusing his power to prosecution of others, based upon party affiliation or exercising their rights to demonstrate peacefully and speak the truths that should have set us free of a corrupt democrat party of criminal intentions and actions. Allowing national elections to be stolen in coverups of Democrat crime family actions is TREASON of the highest order. Jail the government abusers and free those they have been unjustly imprisoned, reduce their power in reflection of their own ability to reduce themselves in self-chosen loss of integrity. Examples need to be made, and if those who coveredup Hillary, Joe, Pelosi and protect guilty others from going to jail , go to jail themselve,,,, mayby we will get fewer Hillary’s, Bidens and Pelosi’s to have to endure in the future.
Pity they can’t just FIRE HIM immediately, AND THEN criminally charge him with corruption!
This ruling woke Democrat Party has violated the U.S. Constitution and our laws against our U.S citizens and have violated the U.S. Constitution and our laws in favor of illegal immigrants and their agendas.
Question #1. Why are these treasonous Democrat who have violated the U.S. Constitution and our laws NOT in prison?
14th Amendment
“equal protection of the laws”.
All are equal before the law, and laws should be equally enforced, but as we see in this woke Democrat ruled cabal, there is a different standard for Democrats and Republicans.
The corrupt, treasonous Democrat elite and the Democrat Party never take responsibility or are held accountable for their own treasonous, unlawful, destructive, dishonorable, immoral actions and agendas. Democrats always Lie and blame someone or something else for their own actions and policies. Even if the Democrats are caught “red handed”.
Because those who’d ENFORCE that, are the CORRUPT ONES…