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Any low-information centrist passively watching the January 6 Select Committee’s work up to now should have felt a jolt to his spine after seeing the latest round of congressional subpoenas.
Late last month, far-right podcast personalities Nicholas Fuentes and Patrick Casey —individuals in no way involved with the smattering of crimes committed that day (one of them wasn’t even there)—received disclosure demands for a range of private and otherwise questionably relevant records, including encrypted messages and bank statements. Relying on reports from those paragons of ethical journalism at the Daily Beast and the Anti-Defamation League, the demand letters vaguely claim that the pair’s “election protest activities” put them somehow “within the scope” of the committee’s investigation, therefore, making them subject to its deposition and disclosure whims.
Of course, if Fuentes and Casey were truly under suspicion for organizing an “insurrection” on January 6, the FBI would have filed charges already. But unfortunately, this doesn’t count for much when it comes to Congress’ sweeping, inexhaustible, and arguably extraconstitutional investigatory powers.
As courts have confirmed over the years (with disappointingly little fanfare), manifestations of Congress’ investigatory power like the January 6 Committee may demand, under threat of criminal contempt charges, just about whatever they want from whomever they want, and there’s little to no constitutional protections for even the most arbitrarily targeted.
These subpoenas can be barefaced attempts to bully political dissidents or embarrass an opposing party in an election year, yet courts almost never get involved (citing them as “non-justiciable political questions”). Subpoenaed targets simply have to answer whatever bipartisan demands are imposed on them.
As Trump advisor Taylor Budowich asked, as part of his objection to the January 6 Committee’s demand that he hand over his bank records (which his bank did without telling him), “[A]re there any limitations preventing a partisan Congress from […]
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