Threatening Electors Violates Federal Law. So Why Isn't Loretta Lynch Doing Anything About It?

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2016/12/threatening-electors-violates-federal-law ^

[scooby321]

January 21st there will be arrests

[Fungi]

“partisan and unfair” Take it up a few notches. Evil, racist and corrupt is more like it.

[tomkat]

Also what is wrong with state police going after them?

Precisely my point.
Though the election is for a national office, presidential elector procedures are determined at the state level, and it would seeem logical that the various states' jurisdictions would take precedence.

Then again, logic and .gov rarely team up . . .

[SSS Two]

The DoJ isn’t doing anything about alleged threats because no one has reported any threats to the DoJ.

[Bob434]

because she wasn’t hired to do an actual job- just to collect a paycheck and badmouth republicans

[\/\/ayne]

I would assume any elector can take a threat and report it to their local sheriff. And I also would assume they are getting so many that a deputy should be assigned to their home to both file criminal complaints and for protection. They can probably file quite a few per day.

Statistically there's got to be a few arrogant or stupid threateners who are just all in the open about it. Let them face local justice.

But the Elector has to call the sheriff first.

[Bob434]

trump should say He’s considering loretta for attorney general for another term- watch the left go mental over that

[Republican Wildcat]

Same reason she didn’t open a civil rights probe after all of those revelations were made about what was going on in Wisconsin with the harassment and prosecutions of people who just merely donated to Scott Walker’s campaign - because it involved Republicans, who don’t deserve protection under the law, apparently, in their view.

[SSS Two]

But the Elector has to call the sheriff first.

I agree. It is illuminating to me that the Electors are not reporting the alleged threats to law enforcement. Michigan Elector Mike Banerian is the only one to report a threat to his local police. Of course, Banerian said he wasn't afraid of the threat (indicative that the alleged threat is not a prosecutable "true threat"). Banerian also talked about the alleged threat on TV for two weeks before the media shamed him into reporting it to law enforcement. That suggests to me that Banerian thought that the "threat" was crude political speech.

[Doogle]

...because Odungo is on vacation and now says he doesn’t know anything about it...

[EDINVA]

It’s probably a very safe bet that many of these threats cross state lines. Maybe covered by interstate commerce laws in addition to civil rights, election laws, etc. (the left loves to use ‘interstate commerce’ to cover a variety of activities).

[sergeantdave]

The fascist pigs in the federal government who are aiding and abetting this harassment need to be arrested for treason. And make the arrests memorable and frightening to the traitors by activating the 101st Airborne to carry out the arrests.

[funfan]

Can you imagine this scenario when Obama was elected?

[\/\/ayne]

How about posting their names and threatening emails online somewhere?

[reed13k]

So why aren’t the state AGs charging anyone? Threats are a crime independent of voting.

[RitaOK]

States have AG’s also. States should protect their own.

It is bluster, but intimidating. Sequestering for safety, in a lovely place, would be great.

[HotHunt]

".....Threatening Electors Violates Federal Law. So Why Isn't Loretta Lynch Doing Anything About It?...."

Because the electors aren't Muslim?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Threatening to murder someone and their family is not political speech, crude or otherwise.

The state police or local police should take action against these criminal moonbats because the federal aholes under Obama’s control certainly are not.

[SSS Two]

Threatening to murder someone and their family is not political speech, crude or otherwise.

See Watts v. United States. #FirstAmendment

I honestly don't think that law enforcement should do anything based on allegations made in media interviews. If the Electors would like law enforcement to do something, they should report the alleged threats to law enforcement.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

But the federal law enforcement agency that should be acting to stop these threats — the U.S. Department of Justice — has not done a thing.
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As everyone knows by now the DOJ has been corrupted by the POTUS and his AG. Therefore it would be quite shocking to learn that the DOJ has intervened to stop the threats that have been encouraged by their own silence.