The Biden Justice Department’s malicious game of political chess was on full display this week, when the Supreme Court threw out a case regarding documents related to former President Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. hotel.
The move by the Democratic-led DOJ effectively ends any chance of obtaining those documents, and it serves as yet another example of how far Democrats are willing to go in order to politically target their opponents.
It all started when a group of Democratic lawmakers filed a suit seeking access to documents associated with Trump’s hotel in Washington D.C.
This suit was based upon a rule that states “any seven members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability or any five members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee can ask for information within their purview from executive agencies.”
Rather than allowing this case to play out before the Supreme Court, Democrats decided they would rather drop it altogether, so they sent notice to both sides agreeing that the Supreme Court should toss it as moot.
The Biden Justice Department then followed up with its own letter asking the justices declare that Democrats could not sue in court to enforce the rule.
In an unsurprising move, three weeks after review was granted by the high court, Democrats dismissed their claims and abandoned their pursuit for those documents – leaving no choice but for Supreme Court Justices to vacate the lower ruling and send it back with instructions to dismiss the case.
Although Justice Jackson dissented from this decision – citing she would have used different procedural mechanisms -the majority agreed that due “to respondents’ abandonment of their claims [this] case [was] moot.”
“The Justice Department had asked the justices to declare that the Democrats could not sue in court to enforce the rule, which allows any seven members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability or any five members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee to ask for information within their purview from executive agencies. But after Democrats dismissed the case, the Justice Department said the Supreme Court should step away from hearing its appeal,” the Hill reported.
But if we take a step back and look at what is really going on here; we can see just how far progressives will go in order derail their rivals without ever having to face them head-on in court – which appears now more likely than ever following news last week about former President Trump’s criminal defense attorney arguing there were faults with Smith’s investigation into mishandling classified documents which could result in his entire case being thrown out entirely come August 14th when trial officially begins.
This is yet another example of progressive politics gone wrong. While many rightly argue that all Presidents should be held accountable for misdeeds committed during office – playing political games such as these only serves further divide our country along ideological lines while ultimately failing citizens who expect principled leadership from elected officials.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.
