Someone had to lead the first thrust against the Department of Justice, but it appears there were no takers except Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who showed why she was elected to her congressional seat in the first place. Greene is a fighter who will throw the grenades back whenever possible. She was sent to Washington to upset the established order, and she’s done that, even leading to Democrats stripping her of committee assignments over her views. I hope they enjoy the precedent they just set—when the Republicans retake the House, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should lose her committee assignments because we don’t like her.
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Mike Davis, a former law clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch, went on a lengthy thread on Twitter, noting that a) the president is the ultimate authority when it comes to declassifying sensitive records, b) he can’t be charged with mishandling classified information, and c) the statutes and regulations regarding classification do not apply to the office of the president which the Supreme Court affirmed in 1987. He also called on Garland to resign after this presser this week about the raid in which Davis accused the attorney general of defending the indefensible and called for his resignation.