Prosecutions by the Department of Justice (DOJ) continue relentlessly as they did under Biden, overfunded without any accountability. While there have been attempts at downsizing other federal agencies, which the Supreme Court greenlighted last term, the DOJ continues with full funding and 10,000 attorneys who are all dressed up with nowhere productive to go. While a few particularly unjustified prosecutions were quickly dismissed after Trump took office and a few prosecutors were fired, the recent imprisonment of Sean “Diddy” Combs after his acquittal on all serious charges demonstrates that the federal police state remains fully in power.
The massive celebrity trial of the year was initiated last year by the Biden Administration. DOJ spent seven weeks prosecuting Diddy at trial in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, calling 34 witnesses to testify. The contrived basis for federal jurisdiction was the assertion that Diddy was somehow a racketeer who violated the anti-racketeering federal law (RICO) designed for prosecuting the Mafia. DOJ’s case against the music celebrity turned on his partying and sexual activities, which while very unsavory are plainly not mob-related racketeering. The same misuse of a racketeering statue was used by Georgia Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis to wrongly charge Trump and 18 others with imaginary crimes for objecting to the reported 2020 election results there.
In the Diddy Combs trial, the jury found, after two days of deliberation, that the rapper was not guilty on all of the racketeering-related charges. Several legal experts have agreed that these RICO charges were seriously out of place. The government continued to imprison Diddy and the judge denied his bond even being acquitted of the most serious charges. The overbearing and overfunded DOJ that spent tens of millions of dollars trying to prosecute Trump and hundreds of January 6 defendants has evidently not changed. There is no federal police power authorized by the U.S. Constitution. States, not the federal government, have authority over these issues, and the DOJ still needs to be reined in.
This post originally appeared at https://phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/still-no-accountability-for-lawfare-by-doj-2/
Phyllis Schlafly