Judge Andrew Napolitano: What will the Democrats do with their new House?
Judge Andrew Napolitano: What will the Democrats do with their new House?
The Democratic Party has gained control of the House of Representatives. Its members can effectively block all legislation that the Senate approves and the president wants. They may also release their power of subpoena without mercy in the executive branch. Will members of the new majority see their victory primarily as an opportunity to legislate or as an opportunity to investigate?
Here is the background story.
Part of the genius of our governance system is the concept of controls and balances. The two chambers of Congress write the laws, and the president enforces them. Each person in the legislative branch and the president were elected by the voters, and it is their duty to exercise their judgment as they believe that the voters who put them in office would want to be exercised. But all legislation requires the consent of both chambers.
Courts exist to resolve disputes regardless of the wishes of voters, to interpret the Constitution and laws as written, and to protect the natural and constitutional rights of everyone in the United States from the violation by Congress or the President or the states.
When a political party controls Congress and the presidency, especially an overactive presidency in its face, as we have it today, and turns its political agenda into law, the minority party is often ignored. This happened in 2010 when a Democratic Congress passed the Affordable Care Act - Obamacare - without republican votes, and it happened again last year when the current Congress passed the so-called tax cuts of President Donald Trump with only Republican support. (I say "called" because for millions of people in high-tax states where the president lacks political support, like my home state of New Jersey, Trump's tax cuts will raise taxes).
The effect of all this is the desire of the Republicans to undo Obamacare, something they have tried to achieve dozens of times despite the fact that some parts are popular, and the desire of the Democrats to undo the new tax law despite the fact that many people represented in Congress by Democrats will experience a tax cut.
But this should not be. If the laws were drafted with bipartisan support, if the politicians of both parties had something to say in the process and a participation in the outcome, if people in all areas, politically and ideologically, could find some comfort in some aspect of almost All the main legislation would have been greater respect for the law and the ability to trust in its permanence.
The presidency in person has so far rejected the commitment to the Democrats and has verbally abused them and encouraged the legislation that attacks them.
Until now.
Now we have the correction that the Democrats predicted. Now we will have divided government. Now Republicans are dominant in a single house in Congress. Now the president will have no choice but to reach the other side of the corridors of the House of Representatives that he has described as "evil" and work with them. In theory, the second half of President Trump's current term should be marked by commitment and inclusion, rather than alienation from take it or leave it.
In what style of government will history sound?
The answer to that question depends to a large extent on the House Democrats. In the campaign that preceded his inauguration of the House of Representatives, they cautiously and successfully avoided, even mentioning the possible impeachment of President Trump. However, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the place where the impeachment would originate, indicated last month that the committee would likely consider impeachment against the president in January.
The House Judiciary Committee will focus on whether Trump fired the FBI Director, James Comey, because Comey refused to discredit Mike Flynn, the president's friend and national security adviser, as Comey said the president demanded. The alleged crime is an attempt to obstruct justice, which the Democrats will argue that the president committed by interfering in a federal criminal investigation for venal purposes, that is, dishonest or self-protection. Probably they will call Lieutenant General Rod Rosenstein as a witness and draw from him his belief that the dismissal of Comey had no legitimate governmental purpose and that it was done for the reasons that Trump told Lester Holt of NBC News, because Comey No closed Flynn's investigation.
The House Intelligence Committee will probably reopen that committee's investigation of the 87 communications Trump's campaign had in 2016 with the Russians, many of whom were agents of the Russian government. This has barely been addressed by the current House Intelligence Committee. Look for the committee to publicly question Rosenstein, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign director Rick Gates. Democrats in the House of Representatives hope this is a secret investigation into the investigation of special lawyer Robert Mueller, without the secrecy required by the special lawyer.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives will begin to examine the money that the president and his family have earned as a result of foreign diplomats staying at the hotels managed by the Trump Organization (he does not own them) in Washington and New York. . This will include a review of the tax returns to Trump's individual and corporate earnings hitherto elusive.
This, too, will be a secret investigation of two litigation presented by members of Congress and others against the president personally who allege that Trump has violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. That clause prohibits a president from receiving anything of value from a foreign head of state during his term. Look for Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal lawyer, and Trump's personal and corporate accountants to testify about this.
Do Democrats really believe that the country wants to go through all this? Will the Democrats use their takeover of the House to work with President Trump or to destroy his presidency? Will the politically wounded president find within himself some self-control and willingness to compromise? Could there be a positive side to Trump's dark cloud?
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