No. of Recommendations: 14
We can now add Frey, Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and a host of local officials to the long and growing list of Trump political opponents on the receiving end of legal harassment: former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell; New York Attorney General Letitia James; former FBI Director James Comey; and U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, to name just a few.
We’ve become frighteningly inured to a practice that we once associated with authoritarian regimes like Iran and Russia.
The order quashing the subpoenas, written by Minnesota district’s chief judge Patrick Schiltz, says: “Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action — particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take — is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand-jury process.”
He immediately raises the prospect that the subpoenas were issued to force Minnesota to carry out the administration’s immigration crackdown, which is a federal, not state responsibility. And/or used to harass the administration’s political opponents.
By the way, Schiltz isn’t some radical lefty judge, as at least one state legislator insinuated. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and clerked for conservative icon Antonin Scalia.
I just thought this deserved to be quoted.
