PELOSI claiming sovereign immunity in refusing to make public the purported evidence in the January 6th persecution is not viable. The Legal clause applies to the right to not being ‘sued’ when the government acts “within” the jurisdiction of the US Constitution. Obviously, the entire process of the January 6th Committee is outside of the Constitution and thus immunity would NOT prevail. Nowhere in this law does it apply to the right to withhold evidence from the public in the prosecution of US citizens. It is about being sued.
In 1946, Congress passed the Tort Claims Act. It allowed US District Courts to hold the US liable for torts committed by:
“agencies, officers, and employees just as the courts would hold individual defendants liable under similar circumstances. This general waiver of immunity included a number of exceptions, however, including the torts of Battery, False Imprisonment, False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution, Abuse of Process, Libel, Slander, Misrepresentation, deceit, interference with contractual rights etc…”
Pelosi’s claim that the Committee is immune from transparency applies if they have followed to the letter of the law the US Constitution.
They have Not.
The Freedom of Information Act could possibly have been a card play had Pelosi or the committee followed every rule of the Act to a tee. Such as providing Judicial Watch with the reasons, providing redacted information, or responding according to the rules of engagement. Pelosi & the committee did not and instead have attempted to make a claim, sovereign immunity, that is not a part of the FOIA, and have thus jeopardized any means at their disposal to hide the evidence.
In fact they have violated various points of response, contact, and due diligence.
The first trial opened the ‘public’ denial point of FOIA when the judge allowed a media person – public, and the defendants wife – a public person, to attend the trial. Therefore making the Pelosi violation even more egregious as she claims there is ‘no public interest’.
In a reality outside of Alice’s Wonderland, the request would have been required and met with FULL unredacted documents provided. Judicial Watch is a member of the media and thus has full rights to the request. There are also terms within the Act that specify how long they can drag their feet, which they have exceeded.
But the most damning of course is the fact that the Committee has effectively announced they are illegally withholding evidence that could prove innocence – they have completely denied hundreds of US citizens to their right of a speedy trial, held them without charges, and confined them to inhumane conditions which are all violations of the US Constitution –
Tort claims could be levied and having the evidence provides the means! This is what Pelosi Fears MOST!
Hi
Surely no one would rationally expect these lawless actors – Nancy et all – obey the law!
The US Constitution has not been in force since 1861.
regards
what’s being done to these american citizens,inside our nation’s capitol is pure evil!!!i’ll say it again,there isn’t enough gas,drugs,or rope for the people behind all this shit