GOP Lawmaker Threatens to Defund Justice Department

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GOP Lawmaker Threatens to Defund Justice Department

June 12, 2023 at 10:25 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 190 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/12/gop-lawmaker-threatens-to-defund-the-fbi/

"SNIP"

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) accused the Justice Department of being overly politicized.

Said Burchett: “This has been the modus operandi… for the DOJ to use this kind of tactic.”

He added: “I think it’ll continue until we get their attention. We need to bring them down before the committee, and if not… we need to start talking about cutting their funding.”

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Stupid. That is all.. n

[marybourg]

2. Another one infected by the tRump brain worm.

A cure must be found.

[marybourg]

7. Destroy every institution, indeed the entire nation,

rather than concede their idol has feet of clay.

[inthewind21]

9. Isn't it fascinating

That those who are very vocal and hellbent on destroying the government, lie, cheat, steal and jump through their asses to be a PART of the very government they claim to hate. What's even more fascinating is the people who vote them INTO the government fail to see that.

[Quanto Magnus]

17. it's often easier to destroy

something from the inside.

Rust is very good at that.... GQP is taking lessons from rust I guess...

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Didn't TFG threaten to abolish it, or was that just the FBI??

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. Law 'n Order, y'all.

Fucking hypocrite scumbags.

[maxrandb]

5. This is something they really would "replace" when they say "repeal and replace"

Get rid of the "biased" FBI and replace with the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.

If it walks like a Hitler and talks like a Hitler, it's s Hitler!

[NowISeetheLight]

29. Fourth Reich

[lonely bird]

6. Shall we ask the Clintons?

Any investigation has political ramifications when it is of a politician and/or their family.

These people are losers on so many different levels that it is astounding.

[Takket]

8. "Back the blue" am I right????

[IronLionZion]

10. They don't want to prosecute federal crimes

That's the only agency to prosecute federal crimes whether it's organized crime, drug cartels, financial crimes, terrorism, etc.

[CaptainTruth]

11. GOP: Defund the police!

[BlueIdaho]

12. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

Love these back benchers making such grand sweeping dramatic statements. Nothing more than a fart in a wind machine.

[Beartracks]

13. GOP wants to defund the police?

For the "tactic" of - gasp! - pursuing criminals that happen to be Republicans.

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[OldBaldy1701E]

16. Exactly!

We can't have our rethug politicians getting constantly arrested and indicted because they are guilty of crimes, now can we? Far better to just remove the rule of law and let the winner take all, right Tim? (There are times that I am glad I moved from Tennessee, I have to say.)

[NowISeetheLight]

30. New Campaign

This needs to be a new campaign. Show all the good the FBI has done then show the GOP wanting to “defund” them.

[OldBaldy1701E]

33. I like that but add this.

Show all the good that the FBI has done and then show the statistics that clearly display the lawlessness of the modern rethug party and how they thumb their noses at the law (after all the information I have come across, the numbers show that the rethug side of our two party system is far more in trouble with the law than the Democrats, they can go for trying to show 'bothsiderism' all they want. Those numbers look pretty bad for the rethugs regardless of how much they want to try the 'everybody does it' routine), and then show them trying to defund them. We need to make sure to show why they want it defunded so badly.

[gratuitous]

14. In what way is DOJ overly politicized, Rep. Burchett?

Please be specific. When DOJ finds evidence of a crime being committed, should they check in with you first before pursuing justice for the perpetrator? Perhaps you could provide us all with a list of crimes that shouldn't be charged and a list of persons who should never be prosecuted for criminal behavior. Could you get back to us on that in the next day or so?

[Ford_Prefect]

15. Don't you just love it when MAGA who've never read law or the Constitution presume to lecture us on

how American Justice and the DOJ function.

[spanone]

18. Defunding the police much burchett?

[Beartracks]

21. Wasn't it a GOP talking point that only criminals want to defund the police?

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[ificandream]

22. They mean Democratic criminals. :)

[Beartracks]

25. ... whose only "crime" is being Democrats, of course.

[DFW]

19. Makes you wonder if he remembers or even knows about Hillary?

He'll probably answer, "Hillary Who?"

[moondust]

20. "Until WE are declared royalty,

and above the law."

You know that's what they want.

[johnnyfins]

23. Go right ahead

Defund them, bluffers.

2 things will happen:

1) Go Fund Me and other crowd sourced sites will go down immediately from the traffic.

2) Your Grand Old Party will vanish. Buh-bye.

[Katcat]

24. BACK THE BLUE!!!!!!

Oh wait, they’re investigating republicans? Nooooo, DEFUND THE POLICE!

[spanone]

26. He's an embarrassment to my embarrassing state...

[GenThePerservering]

27. People pay attention to this back bencher no-hoper

why?

[SouthernDem4ever]

28. I bet that moron didn't even read the indictments.

Dumbass

[GoCubsGo]

31. Tim Burchett must fear being incriminated in the J6 case.

After all, isn't the GOP mantra "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear"?

[Martin68]

32. Blah, blah, blah.

[struggle4progress]

34. "Let them eat roadkill!"

Marie Antoinette seems compassionate when compared to Tim