White House to Jim Jordan, James Comer: Sorry, but you have to restart your oversight requests

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

The Biden White House launched its first major broadside in response to incoming House Republicans likely to spearhead aggressive oversight of the administration.

A top lawyer for the president pledged in letters to those members that the administration would operate in good faith with them. But he also said that oversight demands made by congressional Republicans during the last Congress would have to be started over.

In respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.

“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/29/jim-jordan-james-comer-oversight-requests-00075710

[elleng]

1. LOVE IT!

HARDBALL!!!

[highplainsdem]

4. I love it, too. Laughed out loud when I saw this story.

[PatSeg]

36. Same here

This White House knows what it's doing. Amateurs like Jordan and Comer are no match for them.

[Marthe48]

2. I like it when lawyers split hairs

and I really like it's right in gym's face. Or any other time and money squandering wastes of human flesh pretending to work for my country, but don't.

[LiberalFighter]

26. It didn't require much splitting.

[Marthe48]

29. No, it didn't

I have become attentive to the legal arguments I hear on MSNBC or read about here. Some of those remind me of "what your definition of is, is" (Thank you Bill Clinton)

Telling gym what the law is and what his powers right now are, reminds me of idiots going off half cocked and ignorant of the naked truth.

[elleng]

42. Right, and implementing and enforcing laws

are what we DO, our JOBs! (Even I, a retired lawyer, remember THAT much!

[NJCher]

52. Re your 2nd sentence

I think that’s called not doing your job on company (or in this case gubmint) time. 😀

[LakeArenal]

3. Use every legal technicality you can throw at those traitors.

Lock them up is court cases.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Cue the appearance on Fox for fake outrage and a loving blanket of lies to cover the nothingburger.

[machoneman]

6. Then they should stall out each request as much as possible. Watch them howl!

[Lonestarblue]

12. Yes. If McGann and others could get away with refusing a legal subpoena for three years, the Biden

administration can stall for a couple of years.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Recall how Trump Administration wouldn't cooperate with incoming Biden Administration

Tit for tat, dat.

[Historic NY]

8. Jordan is steaming like a little tea kettle...

he still thinks he is in the clear.

Timeline: Rep. Jim Jordan, a Systematic Disinformation Campaign, and January 6

https://www.justsecurity.org/77852/timeline-rep-jim-jordan-a-systematic-disinformation-campaign-and-january-6/]

[TigressDem]

9. WELL, at least Jordan might not actually be leading committees after a short while...

IF all the co-conspirators get yanked out of their seats.... we might be down 147 reTHUGS.



https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

[certainot]

18. some, not all of them can say it was just a vote. some are actual co conspirators

[Martin68]

10. MAGA idiots jumped the gun. Their philosophy doesn't believe in regulations, the law, or

constitutional requirements. But they are just performing for their insane audience, so I guess it makes no difference. They will point to requirements that they follow the law as efforts to stall or obstruct their investigation, and their followers will believe them. Great for fund-raising.

[TigressDem]

11. Although.. possibly like the peaceful transfer of power with pRez that tRUMP refused Biden....

It could be that during the change after an election if the incoming group were doing legitimate requests so they could hit the ground running, they would exchange information.

tRUMP refused to bring Biden up to speed.

AND since the main thing these people want to do is investigate Biden, why should he cooperate with their sham ploys?


IF they truly wanted to do something good for the people, if they had real ideas for progress, he'd probably support them.

[Martin68]

46. Thje biden asministration will indeed be forced to cooperate with Congressional investigations

initiated by Republicans - but only when they are conducted according to the letter of the law. Their stupid mistake in this instance was to issue subpoenas before they were even legally in office.

[TigressDem]

51. Riiight?

BUT because they asked early and got rejected...

Biden isn't cooperating.


DOH.

[TheBlackAdder]

56. Since Biden knows this will be coming back down the pike, he can get a head start on gathering.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

13. What did Joe say to a Florida Mayor after a MAJOR Hurricane?

"Nobody FUCKS with a Biden."

The Administration so eloquently said that to James Comer and Gym Jordan, but not in those words.

[CentralMass]

14. Nice 😀

[certainot]

15. they should explain a few months after the next batch comes in that major the dog ate them

[Harker]

16. "Aggressive oversight" is what they're calling

"stupid, absurd, incoherent, self-aggrandizing bullshit" now?

[TlalocW]

17. If MTG or Boebert write up subpoenas and requests

Biden's staff should go through them with a red pen, marking all the various spelling, grammar, and procedural mistakes with copious notes, returning them saying, "We honestly have no idea what you're asking. Try again. D-."

[OMGWTF]

28. LOVE IT!

[llashram]

19. what I do know

President Biden has been in politics since he was 29 years old. If anyone knows how to 'cut the hateful republicans a new one' he and his administration know how to do it. Yeah, the repthugs will try to sow more division and racial, sexist, homophobic discord.

WE WILL PREVAIL.

[calimary]

32. President Biden certainly wasn't born yesterday, was he?

This is nowhere near some first go-round.

They’re underestimating him again. But that’s how that hapless bunch rolls with this President.

[33taw]

20. "Executive Privilege" for two years.

[Turbineguy]

21. That's cool

they were looking to waste time anyway.

[Zambero]

22. Measuring drapes (and all that) ahead of big expectations

does not confer majority status on a retroactive basis. I don't recall President-elect Biden, as one who has respected norms and long-standing rules, issuing a slew of Post-dated executive orders in advance of taking office. The gap between delusion and political decorum is a stark one.

[pwb]

23. Just ignore them. They ignored our committees?

Follow their example in their face.

[Marcuse]

24. Cut & paste.

[republianmushroom]

25. like it

[OMGWTF]

27. Fk them up at each and every opportunity.

[TheRickles]

30. Will Biden respond to the inevitable subpoena on Day 1?

[Delmette2.0]

31. They like the titles that go with the jobs.

They just don't know the rules and laws that go with the responsibility.

They only know how to throw out BS and sit back and wait for someone to point out their mistakes.

[Beartracks]

35. Republicans have no respect for laws, and, frankly, no interest in democracy. n/t

[Delmette2.0]

37. I agree with your point.

But they still come across as ignorant of the laws.

[Upthevibe]

33. highplainsdem

Thanks for this post...

[Raven123]

34. Why didn't they just ignore the requests? Let them stew, spew and then read them the rules

[niyad]

40. Because rubbing their ignorance and arrogance in their faces is more fun?

[sakabatou]

38. Hehehe

[ificandream]

39. I hope Dark Brandon gives them a lot of grief in the next two years.

[Captain Zero]

43. The good thing was the white house got an early look

If these idiots just ship back the same requests then the WH is prepared, actually ahead of them with plans on how to deal with them.



They tipped their hand sending it over early, before they had the authority. Dumbasses.

[SWBTATTReg]

41. And ignore summons too, it seemed like a lot of these thugs in and out of the republican camp

ignored summons and/or subpoenas too, such as Mark Meadows ignoring his from the J6 committee.

[True Blue American]

44. Jordan named

In committee report!

https://www.newsweek.com/jim-jordan-involvement-jan-6-revealed-committee-report-1769235

[ShazzieB]

45. Wow, he is DEEPLY in it, isn't he?

In over his head. If I was in his shoes, I'd be very worried. Of course, I'd never be in his shoes, because I'm not a conniving Republican crook, but still.

[Cha]

47. Drooling magats jumped

the gun.

TY

[paleotn]

48. Pound sand. Biden has precedence from the previous administration.

Even when they chair committees, tell them to go fuck themselves. Sideways if necessary.

[ornotna]

49. So the White house did a Pelosi

Excellent!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. Republicans rage over White House plans to slow investigations

Gym Jordan and company are pissed at President Biden and the White House for not agreeing to ignore the law so that Gym and company start their witch hunts early.

I am glad that President Biden and the White House are going to stand up to and fight Gym and his fellow assholes

Link to tweet

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/29/republicans-rage-over-white-house-plans-to-slow-investigations-00075836

House Republicans are fuming over a recent White House move that will slow roll their investigations, but leaders say it doesn’t change their game plan.

While the House GOP has spent weeks detailing its planned investigations into the Biden administration now that the party has a majority, the White House has stayed mostly silent on strategy. That changed Thursday morning, when White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber announced he plans to effectively reset the clock come Jan. 3 and ignore the long list of investigative requests already sent by Republican Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio — the incoming chairs for the Oversight and Judiciary Committees, respectively.

It’s an explosive start to a chapter that won’t even officially begin until next week. The relationship between House Republicans and the Biden White House seemed doomed to go sour from the start, but it’s an unmistakable signal that Biden’s administration won’t quietly go along with investigations — some of which it has openly deemed little more than political noise.


“At every turn the Biden White House seeks to obstruct congressional oversight and hide information from the American people,” Comer said in a statement.

House Republicans were quick to clarify that their investigative plans, which have been in the works for months and have included strategy meetings with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, are moving forward regardless of the White House’s position. Comer said in an interview that he had already planned to reissue all of his information requests quickly in the new Congress, including for interviews and documents related to Hunter Biden’s business deals, last year’s Afghanistan withdrawal and the administration’s handling of the pandemic. The White House’s newly articulated position would be little more than a short delay of that process, he noted.

[True Blue American]

53. Gym is not even an Attorney. He graduated,

Never took the bar exam. He was an Assistant Wrestling Coach to this man for 7 years.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/referee-says-he-told-rep-jim-jordan-ohio-state-doctor-n1078476

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University_abuse_scandal

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2020/02/12/jim-jordan-accused-cover-up-sexual-abuse-ohio-state

[LetMyPeopleVote]

55. Gym is too stupid to pass the bar

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[Novara]

54. It demonstrates their utter arrogance and entitlement to make demands with no authority to do so

I wish the letter would have somehow referenced that.

But the entire campaign of the orange motherfucker was already acting as a shadow presidency in 2016 in violation of the Logan act before he assumed office, so there's your arrogant precedent.


I keep telling people that even with a razor-thin 4-seat majority, the Rs will act like they have a mandate.