Ok. Garland appointed a special prosecutor. Can the republicans stop this?

[slater71]

This is for the Jan 6th case and the Mar a Lago case.

[Ocelot II]

1. No, they can't.

[SheltieLover]

7. Ty!

[Prairie_Seagull]

2. Is this person named?

[dewsgirl]

8. Jack Smith

[Prairie_Seagull]

11. TY dewsgirl

[dewsgirl]

14. You're welcome.

[Tickle]

3. Here's some copy and paste

How can a special counsel be removed?
(d) The Special Counsel may be dis- ciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. The Attorney General may re- move a Special Counsel for mis- conduct, dereliction of duty, inca- pacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of De- partmental policies.

Who controls special counsel?
The Attorney General has full control over the assignment to a special counsel of additional jurisdiction (section 600.4(b)) that is “necessary in order to fully investigate and resolve the matters assigned, or to investigate new matters that come to light” during a special counsel's investigation.

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Ok so trump wins 2024 puts in bill barr and barr dismisses it ?

[Tickle]

13. LOL trump is not going run

he's going to jail so I wouldn't worry much

[Jskudris55]

18. Heard that before

I wouldn’t hold your breath.

[onenote]

20. I don't think you understand the current relationship between Barr and Trump.

Barr has pissed on Trunp's election fraud claims and suggested that Trump could be indicted for his handling of classified documents. And Trump has said this about Barr: "Bill Barr had 'no guts,' and got 'no glory.' He was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats."

[Fullduplexxx]

23. I'm sorry I didn't mean bill barr specifically... bill barr meaning some sycophant

[BamaRefugee]

4. Won't they be in charge of funding for this as soon as they're sworn in to the House?

I predict a whopping $ZERO budget set aside for the special prosecutor, if I'm correct.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

15. Don't see how. House funds/appropriation bills must be passed by Senate and signed by President

[BamaRefugee]

19. in typical GOP fashion, they would just keep submitting the zero budget over and over ad nauseuam

the Senate and Prez veto, they send it again, endlessly, no money gets appropriated for the next two years.
You're thinking like a good citizen Democrat, get with the program!!!

[grumpyduck]

5. It might be too early to say this, but

WOO-HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

[Takket]

6. no, but why would they anyway?

the only difference between SC and no SC is how long it is going to take. Despite Garland thinking this is some necessary step to appear "impartial" it changes absolutely nothing about the politics of Washington. Everyone who things he is guilty will still be happy when he's indicted, every rethug will still go ballistic.

The SC appointment has done nothing but given drumpf more time to grow old and die, which is far more likely than him every actually going to prison.

[blm]

9. I think TeamDeSantis is rooting for indictment.

[moonscape]

26. There are those like Tribe and

Weissmann who say this will actually speed things up. Tribe says decision-making will be less bureaucratic and Weissmann that Jack Smith is known to work hard and quickly, and Weissmann had known him well for a long time.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Statement from Special Counsel

Link to tweet

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

16. ...and Trump will ignore him too, or plead the 5th

[BlueLucy]

17. MTG is saying the house will refuse to fund a special council... nt

Can they do that?

[Retrograde]

21. I don't think MTG knows what the House can and can not do

I suspect this special counsel comes out of the DOJ budget: I don't know if Congress gets to approve a line-by-line allotment for them, or just one big DOJ budget which the Attorney General gets to manage. I suspect the latter, but who knows with this new Congress.

Anyway, the GOP isn't in charge until Jan. 3

[BlueLucy]

24. Thank you! nt

[Emrys]

25. I've heard the latter. Doesn't that mean they'd have to defund the Supreme Court?

A bold move. Maybe we'll get to see how it plays out for them.

[Demsrule86]

22. How would they? The only reason they stopped Mueller was Barr and Trump...we hold the

presidency now.