[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 94 (Monday, June 3, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H3546-H3547]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         JUSTICE UNDER THE LEFT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
California (Mr. McClintock) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, the American justice system has always 
been the pride of our Nation and the envy of the world.
  In America, justice is portrayed as blindfolded because it doesn't 
matter whether those who seek it are rich or poor, weak or powerful, or 
Republican or Democratic. Equal justice under law means exactly that: 
Everyone is treated the same.
  It is this central principle that gives the law its moral authority. 
Without it, law simply becomes raw force, devoid of legitimacy. Respect 
for the law breaks down, and without that respect, civilization gives 
way to the law of the jungle. This is the well-trodden path to tyranny, 
taken by many nations throughout history.
  We Americans have always believed that it can't happen here. Yet, it 
has happened here, and we are watching it in real time.
  The turning of the law against our democracy began with the IRS 
harassment and intimidation of the Tea Party movement during the Obama 
administration. One of the principal players was the same Jack Smith 
who the Biden administration tasked to pursue Federal charges against 
Mr. Biden's political opponents.
  During the 2016 election, corrupt officials at the FBI used the 
terrifying powers they were entrusted to advance a monstrous lie 
concocted by the Democrats that Donald Trump was conspiring with the 
Russians.
  Democratic political activists within the government used that lie to 
spy on Mr. Trump's campaign, terrify his supporters, and interfere with 
the election. When that failed, they used it to undermine and obstruct 
the lawfully elected President.
  Nothing comes close to the demons the Democrats have now unleashed. 
They have broken every political norm, civil tradition, and due process 
protection that has shielded Americans from the convulsions of banana 
republics. We can now clearly see the full power of leftist lawfare.
  Politically corrupt prosecutors, ethically compromised judges, and a 
partisan and biased jury pool can concoct specious cases and turn them 
against their political opponents under circumstances that make the 
show trials of Russia look like models of enlightened jurisprudence.
  The genesis of these cases is damning. All were brought when Donald 
Trump dared to run again for the Presidency. Two were brought by 
leftist prosecutors who campaigned on targeting Donald Trump. Biden's 
number three official in the Justice Department left to spearhead the 
New York prosecution. The Atlanta prosecutors strategized for hours 
with the White House counsel in advance of filing that case. Biden's 
Attorney General dispatched Jack Smith, with a long history of 
prosecutorial abuses, to apply a glaring double standard to prosecute a 
former President over a civil dispute involving the handling of 
records.
  Legal experts from left to right have excoriated the double standards 
and violations of due process and have condemned the appalling judicial 
misconduct of the judge.
  Now, the Democrats believe this is their path to electoral success: 
abusing our laws to declare their opponent a convicted felon.
  In the history of kangaroo courts and despotic regimes, I would say 
that Mr. Trump has some pretty good company: Nelson Mandela, a 
convicted felon; Natan Sharansky, a convicted felon; and Sir Thomas 
More, a convicted felon. Under George III's 1775 Proclamation of 
Rebellion, every one of the American Founders would have been a 
convicted felon.

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  By traducing the American traditions of political tolerance, respect 
for democracy, equal protection of the laws, and simple fair play, the 
left is destroying the legitimacy of our legal institutions and the 
respect my colleagues on the other side of the aisle once commanded in 
a concerted campaign to subvert democracy itself.
  I still believe our American judicial system will ultimately prove 
itself resilient and this glaring miscarriage of justice will 
eventually be overturned, but the damage that this has already done to 
the rule of law and the sanctity of our elections is immense.
  After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto 
supposedly said that he was afraid that all they had done was awaken a 
sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. I believe the 
Democrats who are celebrating this travesty are about to discover the 
same thing. The American people are known throughout history for their 
common sense, their innate fairness, and their devotion to the 
institutions that have maintained their freedom through 12 generations.
  The brazenness of the abuses by this administration and its 
confederates is as obvious to any who care to look, and an awareness is 
building that democracy is, indeed, at stake in this election.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would remind Members to refrain 
from engaging in personalities toward

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presumptive nominees for the Office of President.

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