If Democrats win back the House of Representatives next November, there will be no shortage of areas for accountability within the Trump administration.
Much of the expansion of executive power has focused on what conservatives have called weaponizing the DOJ.
Although Homeland Security and the DOJ are separate Cabinet agencies, the two have worked closely on Trump’s deportation policy. The DOJ prosecutes Trump’s political enemies and hides the Epstein files.
House Democrats will have to dismantle the distortion Trump has wrought on executive branch accountability.
Under Republican majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate, there is no check on executive power.
On Sunday, Rep. Jamie Raskin spoke about the need for Democrats to reassert Congress’s power by winning the majority.
Raskin said on MSNBC’s The Weekend:
Mike Johnson won’t do it, and Thune won’t do it. They are not interested in standing up for Congress as a branch, as the framers of the Constitution predicted.
They did not predict political parties or divide the government. They thought the people in Congress would revolt. For the legislative vote of the people against the president, but that’s not happening. So we need to take back Congress. Meanwhile, we are engaged in a slew of lawsuits to stop this reign of lawlessness and torture of our basic institutions and constitutional values.
If Congress were to reassert its authority, it would negate Trump’s imperial presidency, but Raskin also offered a few hints about what Democratic priorities will be if they win the majority.
Read on and watch Rep.’s video clip below. Raskin.
