An opposition memo filed in response to an RNC lawsuit over the Committee’s broad subpoena demanding sensitive personal information on the party’s donors and backers asserts Pelosi’s weaponized probe designed to persecute political dissidents is not subject to any executive or judicial oversight.
“The RNC cannot demonstrate a likelihood of success because the Speech or Debate Clause bars its lawsuit and its application for injunctive relief,” the committee wrote, claiming the Constitution’s protection of congressional independence. “The Clause provides that ‘any Speech or Debate in either House, [Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place.’”
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Citing case law where the Supreme Court protected outside interference with the legislative process, the probe’s lawyers claimed that the legislative branch’s independence is absolute. Although, the January 6 Committee is operating with no legitimate legislative purpose, lacks any minority-appointed lawmakers, and is operating without a ranking member. The only Republicans working on Pelosi’s Select Committee are Reps. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., both of whom were hand-picked by the speaker. Pelosi notoriously barred GOP appointments from Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, blowing up her own committee. In Wyoming, the state party no longer considers Cheney as a Republican. The Republican National Committee censured Cheney for her obsessive work on behalf of Pelosi. She laughed regarding her alienation from Republican voters earlier this week.
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The January 6 Committee’s claims to be above the law as it executes a “digital Watergate” demanding supporter data from the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) conjures memories of former President Richard Nixon’s insistence that “when the President does it, that means it is not illegal.”
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Five decades apart, the two cases of political warfare are different just by way of method and ability to conduct illegal opposition research openly.
In 1972, a team of political operatives broke into the Watergate complex to steal confidential strategic information from the DNC. When the operation grew public, the scandal led to the first and only resignation in presidential history.
In 2022, Democrats on the January 6 Committee, who’ve admitted the partisan investigation is all about the midterms, are seeking confidential strategic information from Republicans in the form of a subpoena issued under questionable authority. The subpoena targets Republican financial records housed with the database company Salesforce, asking the party to hand over detailed personal information regarding Republican backers and their engagement with the party.
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“What the Salesforce subpoena demands is for the company to hand over the ‘Holy Grail’ of the RNC’s internal digital playbook,” the NRSC wrote in an amicus brief to the RNC lawsuit, with millions spent to compile its treasure trove of data. The NRSC calls the January 6 Committee’s operation a “digital-age Watergate.”
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