When the Republicans retake the House in January of 2023, some of the White House officials will probably face impeachment challenges, including Joe Biden himself. Right now, the Republicans upset by the illegal raid on President Trump, have lined up to declare their intention of having impeachment votes against FBI Director Chris Wray and the head of the DOJ.
This is a political show because there is no hope of impeaching anyone because the Democrats in the Senate would never vote for impeachment. But, being impeached in the House is highly probable since Republicans will have the majority. The charges will be an abuse of power relating to the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Mike Davis of the Article III Project has called for the impeachments of both Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray over that raid.
In an op-ed for Newsweek, Davis condemned the “politicized, highly inappropriate, inaccurate leaks out of the Justice Department” to prop up the “out of control” “Biden regime” in its pursuit of punishing its likely political rival.
House Republicans must impeach Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Wray for their unprecedented and destructive politicization of the Justice Department when they reclaim power in January. And over the long term, House and Senate Republicans must dismantle and rebuild the FBI, so political raids like this never happen again. We cannot allow our law enforcement agencies to become third-world political hit squads over a bureaucratic dispute. That’s the bureaucratic dispute. That’s it. This is not any crime (the Presidential Records Act is not a criminal statute), let alone one requiring a 30-person FBI brigade and unprecedented raid of a former president’s home and office.
Davis excoriated the DOJ for elevating bureaucratic paper-pushing into a farcical drama evoking nuclear fears by leaking to the media that Trump may have, let’s see, how did The Washington Post report it again? Oh, yes: that he had “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons.” It’s why so many people, including me, want to see the underlying documents supporting the search warrant. Though infamous FBI investigator Peter Strzok may implore us to trust the agency, we don’t anymore. The FBI goodwill bank is overdrawn, pal.
But after the raid, well, watch out Attorney General Merrick Garland:
“I think the first impeachment we see is Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security. I think it’s very valuable to have an extended trial in the Senate laying out the absolute lawlessness on our Southern Border. The outcome is likely fore-ordained… I got to tell you the case for impeaching Merrick Garland is growing by leaps and bounds every day. The more lawless the more politicized this DOJ gets, the more compelling it gets to impeach Garland. Probably next after Mayorkas, And then in terms of impeaching Biden … I think there’s a very real possibility that Biden is impeached.
