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During the Trump impeachment, we were repeatedly reminded that Rep. Jamie Raskin was a constitutional law professor. Even though he barely seems able to spell “constitution”, let alone define it except through his varied abuses. What Rep. Raskin does know how to do is jump on assorted leftist bandwagons while claiming that he has a special expertise in saying “unconstitutional” when a camera is pointed at him.
Here’s Jamie. Again.
A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House are calling for a hearing to “investigate attacks on democracy,” following Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell (D) on Wednesday for alleged “neglect of duty.”
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) sent a letter Thursday to committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) asking for a full hearing on the “shocking trends of anti-democratic abuses of powers in the state [Florida.]”
The lawmakers claimed Florida’s executive and legislative branches of government have engaged in a “relentless assault on the fundamental rights and freedoms of Floridians.”
The letter addresses the previous suspension by DeSantis of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren after he allegedly refused to enforce bans on abortion and transgender surgery.
The lawmakers said they are “alarmed” DeSantis has suspended a second prosecutor.
“This removal flies in the face of the courts and the Constitution in what appears to be a scheme to undermine the will of the electorate where the courts cannot provide a legal remedy for the Constitutional violation,” the letter said.
If that last part sounds like gibberish, that’s because it is.
What does it mean that there’s a constitutional violation that the court can’t provide a legal remedy for? Don’t ask the media or constitutional law professor Rep. Jamie Raskin to explain this nonsense.
What it actually means is that Warren, a Soros DA, announced that he was refusing to do his job by engaging in “prosecutorial discretion” on the laws he disagreed with. Then Warren went to Judge Robert Hinkle, a Clinton federal judge, to get a friendly hearing. Hinkle claimed that the DeSantis suspension violated the Florida state constitution (not the national constitution as the media and Rep. Jamie Raskin imply) but that he couldn’t do anything about it as he was a federal judge.
Later, Warren took his show to the correct venue, the Florida Supreme Court noted that he had taken too long to bring his case.
The point of this circus in which Warren took his case to the wrong venue and then to the right venue at the wrong time was virtue signaling. And this is the next stage of the show.
Constitutional law clown Rep. Raskin presumably knows all this, yet decided to co-sign a letter stating misleadingly that…
“Covered in this testimony was the fact that Governor DeSantis suspended indefinitely a democratically-elected State Attorney Andrew Warren from office, an action that a federal judge subsequently found violated the Constitution but ruled that the courts do not have the power to reinstate him.6 We are alarmed that Governor DeSantis – who is now campaigning for the Republican nomination for President of the United States – has now similarly suspended another democratically-elected State Attorney, Monique Worrell. This removal flies in the face of the courts and the Constitution in what appears to be a scheme to undermine the will of the electorate where the courts cannot provide a legal remedy for the Constitutional violation.”
Rep. Raskin’s letter then escalates to claiming that suspensing Soros DAs violates the federal constitution.
“It is disheartening to witness the erosion of the foundations upon which our nation was built. In Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, the Republican Guaranty Clause compels Congress to “guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,” which means not a Republican Party form of government but a representative government based on principles of fair democratic representation and participation, due process, freedom of speech, and freedom of association for all.”
If Rep. Raskin wants to go there, then every state must have electable DAs. And that’s just the beginning.
IV:4 has been one of those constitutional ticking time bombs that we don’t think much about. Give Rep. Raskin some credit for pushing that particular button. It was put into place around the time of the Rhode Island crisis when the future state appeared to be on the verge of either seceding or becoming totalitarian. And the Framers were potentially looking for a pretext to militarily intervene.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”
The background though was a situation in which there would be a monarchy or dictatorship in a particular state, or an uprising by what was then the future Democratic Party, seeking to form a junta.
This does not apply when there is a functioning legislature. Which Florida does have.
So it’s obviously a constitutional non-starter, but we are dealing with folks who spent decades claiming that the Constitution protects a right to abortion and outlaws the death penalty for serial killers.
There’s plenty of constitutional ticking time bombs and it’ll be interesting to see if this one takes off.
Because, if it does… shall we discuss whether California or New York have a “republican form of government”?
Shall we discuss if ballot harvesting elections represent “republican forms of government”?
And shall we discuss whether experiments like letting non-citizens vote or ranked-choice voting or multiple votes trigger a IV:4 response?
If you want a pathway to a civil war through a federal seizure of total control over elections, that would be it.
A full-court press by the radical left 🙂
I’ve seen Raskin on TV lately. That doo rag on his head is obviously used to cover up his baldness caused by AIDS cancer.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
At some point those doo rags became popular. Some people I know wear them. I think they look terrible but I’ve given up trying to stop them. Never worn one myself.
It occurred to me that he might be trying to make himself look cool for his black constituency.
Ghetto chic 🙂
He looks like the dork he is. Those doo-rags are awful. And he’s way too old to wear one, no matter how racked with AIDS he is. If he’s not man enough to wear a cowboy hat, he should just wear a baseball cap.
Of course, I don’t think there’s an MLB team called “The Flamers” or “the Gaylords,” so maybe he wear a lady’s shawl.
Thanks Jeff! Yeah, that’s the word, “dork”. They look like dorks in those doo rags.
If the “republicans” had any guts they’d expose every slimey connection (lobbyists, donors, commie clubs etc.) that this criminal is affiliated with.
The Earth will split in half and tumble into the Sun before I defer to a congenital Commie whose Commie skull is wrapped in a USSR battle flag.
My true feelings about this would be highly inappropriate for a family website. Let’s just leave it at that.
Gov. DeSantis only suspended 9th Circuit State Attorney, Monique Worrell, but for the 2nd time. Worrell is a Soros financed pro-crime, pro-BLM prosecutor who has waged war on cops throughout her 2-county district. She has destroyed the lives of a number of cops, for one reason: they’re white. I’m personally acquainted with one of them. She prosecuted them for bogus “police brutality charges, and she fabricates evidence against them.
Look at that photo of Jamie Raskin and look up his biography. That will tell you everything you need to know about him. America is doom with people like him in Congress.
I also suggest he straighten his tie so he looks professional in front of the camera. Better yet, he and the other Congressman could wear a witch’s outfit when they are going on a Witch Hunt. October is coming.
He obviously has not read any history books lately. I like to remind him that America is not a democracy, it never was or ever will be in the future. As I have stated many times before “America is a government of the politicians, by the lobbyists, and for the special interest groups.” That will never change.
FACT: The Constitution isn’t a jumble to be mixed and matched to say what the left wants it to say. But the left has little use for facts.
It’s great that a racist low life criminal supporter is removed.
And it’s expected that other racist criminal lovers will make some noise about it.
RDS is just following the process to suspend a state official in Florida. The initiation of the process begins with the Florida Attorney General. Wait until the FDLE’s investigative report is made available to the public.
I’m confident it will show a basis for the 9th Circuit State Attorney’s suspension and permanent removal on the grounds of dereliction of duty and other instances of grave misconduct against law enforcement personnel which she initiated for improper and indeed unlawful purposes.