Defying Constitutional Government

The constitution is being shredded. The legislative branch has the power to make laws, but executive branch is directed to enforce them. With war criminals in power, the opposite is happening.

The justice department not only will not enforce the laws as it is supposed to, it refuses to obey them itself.

What happens when Congress holds an oversight hearing and the overseen refuses to show up? Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee found out on Wednesday, when they convened to examine allegations of selective prosecution by the US Department of Justice. The second in a series of hearings into the politicization of the DOJ focused on allegations that the department had either failed to prosecute or delayed prosecution of people involved in GOP voter-suppression efforts during the 2002 and 2004 elections. On hand to testify: a New Hampshire congressman, a felonious former GOP political operative, a New Hampshire lawyer, and an NYU professor. Conspicuously absent was anyone from the Justice Department, which not only declined to send an official to testify, but also ignored repeated requests from the committee to hand over internal documents relevant to the hearing.

The dis was hardly unusual. Over the past year, the Judiciary Committee has held numerous oversight hearings and requested a host of documents from the DOJ on everything from the operation of its civil rights division to deferred prosecution agreements. For the most part, the agency has simply ignored the committee, setting the stage for yet another showdown between the administration and Congress. Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers sent Attorney General Michael Mukasey a letter on May 9 lamenting that while he has sent numerous letters and document requests to the Justice Department over the past year, the agency has failed to provide the requested documents and "in some cases, even to answer" its requests. He went on to warn that if Mukasey and his staff fail to come up with a specific schedule for the document production by Friday, May 16, "we will have little choice but to consider compulsory process."

The farce that the worst administration ever has made of constitutional government desperately calls for an end to the criminals and their misuse of the powers that they have usurped by false pretenses. Under the ruse of enforcing laws, we have a justice department that undermines them.

The congress will need to do a lot of re-establishing a rule of law. The crooks who've worked against it need to be taken out of government for all time.