After the FBI’s search at Mar-a-Lago, Republicans aren’t arguing that Trump is innocent; they’re arguing that it doesn’t matter if he’s guilty. (via MaddowBlog)
There’s no denying the significance of the developments. A former American president is suspected of improperly taking highly sensitive, classified materials to his golf resort. After months of investigating, federal law enforcement apparently decided to take matters to the next level and obtain a search warrant.on last night’s show, in order to get a search warrant, Justice Department officials needed to explain to a judge where they wanted to search and what they wanted to search for.
At that point, the judge would have to be satisfied in the specificity and merits of the request. Given that all of this relates to a former American president, the judge very likely would’ve taken the application for a search warrant very seriously. Indeed, it’s safe to assume the attorney general himself had to sign off on this before the Justice Department even asked for the search warrant in the first place.
But it happened anyway. Federal law enforcement officials believed there was evidence of a crime, they took the necessary steps, they convinced a judge, and they executed a search warrant.Republican lawmakers and officials accused the Biden administration on Monday night of weaponizing the Justice Department for political ends after former President Donald Trump revealed that the FBI had searched his Florida home.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, for example, said in a written statement that the Justice Department had reached “an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” adding, “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.” In other words, the would-be Speaker of the House is planning to retaliate against the Justice Department — not because it’s done something wrong, but because it’s investigating an alleged crime the House Republican would prefer go ignored.
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