Senators Can Sue Over Arctic FRost

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a repost of a Daily /caller article about a proposed new law to allow lawmakers spied on by the Arctic Frost program to sue the government for up to half a million clams. The article quotes Gregg Jarrett who argues it is a terrible idea - and I concur.

As Jarrett points out, this is an ex post facto law, something that violates the Constitution. Congress can't make retroactive laws; it's not authorized under Article 1, Sections 9 and 10 of the U.S. Constitution.

But we have to ask; why do lawmakers get this special protection and not everyday citizens? This law should be applicable to anyone regardless of their employment status. In America laws protect everyone, not just the privileged few.

AND it allows them to sue the government. So in essence any judgments paid out will come from... drumroll please... The U.S. taxpayers! It's not coming out of the pockets of those who created Arctic Frost, or who implemented the unlawful taking of phone records and the like.

Basically the citizenry gets stuck for the sins of the Biden Administration.

Senate Republicans inserted this measure into the budget C.R.

I find this part interesting:

So, our old friend Yakov Bozoberg wouldn't let AT&T tell Sen. Cruz. The first order of business for the Senate after settling this shutdown matter should be to file articles of impeachment against the good judge. He's clearly acting not out of legal concerns but as a partisan for the Democrats.

At any rate there needs to be legal remedies for this, and heads need to roll over Arctic Frost, but special dispensation to bring lucrative lawsuits should not enter into it. Boasberg and Jack Smith should be the ones being sued, not the U.S. government. (I know; they can't sue Boasberg, but of course that law could be changed, although it won't happen with the current makeup of the Senate.)

If justice isn't done I fear the citizenry may start taking these matters into their own hands. The Left is trying to do that very thing now. This is the stuff of civil wars; an abusive, unresponsive government that lets lawlessness go unpunished. Under President Trump that lawlessness is waning, but it's still smoldering and the Left could fan it into a flame. If, say, the Left were to be successful in taking Mr. Trump's head off his ear next time all bets are off.

It's a tragic and horrible possibility and one no sane person should want. But I fear it may be where this will lead; the Left has gone completely bonkers, and the political machinery is now obviously rigged. America has become the very thing she fought in the Cold War. The Communists may have lost the battle but won the war.

Still, I oppose this particular measure; it does nothing that will lead to any real reform, or prevent this from happening in the future. It just gives one more privilege to the most privileged among us, the political class.

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