“'The government’s lies can be devastating,' a leading scholar — University of Colorado law professor Helen Norton — wrote in a powerful 2015 article, arguing that official government dishonesty is fundamentally unconstitutional. Norton noted that false testimony and evidence in criminal cases — what we’ve seen frequently in the immigration terror campaign — is a violation of the Constitution’s due process clause, while invented allegations that aim to silence critics are offenses against constitutionally protected free speech.
"It’s a felony to lie in federal court cases, or when testifying under oath before Congress, or in other types of governmental proceedings. And the federal statute of limitations for perjury is five years — plenty of time for a liberated U.S. Department of Justice to pursue these many cases if democratic forces can win back the White House in 2028.
"But we should also recognize that top officials who tell deliberate lies are abusing their power in ways that, as Norton rightly argues, are grossly unconstitutional. When Noem lies to the American people about Good and how she was killed by ICE, she should resign or be impeached. When Lutnick looks into a camera and offers complete fiction about his friendship with the world’s most notorious sex trafficker, he, too, should quit immediately, or face impeachment. [snip]
"We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that
widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to
prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs
truth and consequences." -- Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer, "The Lying Is Out Of Control. People Need To Go to Prison." As we've said before, we need junkyard dog Democrats in the White House and in the Justice Department to make sure we de-Nazify our federal government and make sure the rule of law is re-established in such a way that the MAGAt fascist party can't undermine it again.
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