11/12/21: Steve Bannon, the Trump-pardoned scam artist, gets indicted on a charge of criminal contempt after refusing to respond to a congressional subpoena.
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Can a guy get a pardon around here? |
We should all want the
legislative branch to check up on the executive branch. That’s why we call it
“checks and balances.”
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His testimony is wanted in an investigation into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill. Bannon left the Trump administration in 2017, but the former president says anything he might had said about events of that day would be shielded by executive privilege. That would include anything Bannon knows about a meeting he attended on January 5 – when the president wasn’t present.
To say this is a broad interpretation
of what “executive privilege” involves is an amazing understatement.
We should also note that when witnesses appear before Congress, they may claim executive privilege in regard to specific questions. They can’t just hide out and wait until they get a pardon (again).
Even Trump fans, and Trump-enabling lawmakers in Congress should be able to see why we want the legislative branch to have the power to subpoena witnesses and compel appearance. Otherwise, Hillary Clinton could have thumbed her nose at the committee that investigated Benghazi.
President Biden could hide behind the same impervious shield for the next three years if he wanted – as could every other president to come.
You don’t have to be a genius
to grasp this concept. Still, most GOP lawmakers fail to grasp it.
In fact, on his podcast on Jan. 5, Bannon correctly predicted (or perhaps knew), “All hell is going to break out tomorrow.”
Trump, of course, was
impeached the second time, in part, on a charge of obstructing Congress.
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