[bigbob]

This should convince anyone who doubts the power of the administrative state. Here you have members of the US House of Representatives and Senate directly telling a civil servant to stop playing games and release the unclassified 1023 without redactions, and he refuses to do so.

Why can’t we send federal marshalls into Wray’s office, arrest him, and charge him with treason?

Serious question! Because what good are laws if they are ignored with impugnity?

What good is a constitution if agencies enabled by it apply it when it suits their needs and wipe their butts with it when it doesn’t?

Grassley has presented the case, but it’s all talk and no action...when will we see some action??? Who will take it and how??? When the chief law enforcement officer and his direct reports don’t obey the law, who you gonna call?

[jpp113]

"What good is a constitution if agencies enabled by it apply it when it suits their needs and wipe their butts with it when it doesn’t?" This sentence contains the rub - the US Constitution does NOT enable what has become the administrative state, at all. The Constitution espouses what has become to be known as "the non-delegation doctrine", which is the principle that what is being used nowadays (executive branch making laws) is squarely violative of the Constitutional Separation of Powers. The allowance of the violation is judge-made, and extra-constitutional. Congress can sue the executive branch if the DoJ does not act appropriately (in addition to the defunding option - which will not happen due to too many pussies in congress)