{"id":1670617,"date":"2022-10-03T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T22:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670617"},"modified":"2022-10-03T18:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T22:05:36","slug":"some-helpful-ideas-for-bidens-impeachment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-helpful-ideas-for-bidens-impeachment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Helpful Ideas For Biden\u2019s Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsome-helpful-ideas-for-bidens-impeachment-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Over at MSNBC, Steve Benen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/impeaching-biden-gops-matt-gaetz-makes-post-policy-pitch-rcna49779?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contends<\/a> that Republicans, poised to take back the House next year, keep promising to impeach Joe Biden but \u201chaven\u2019t quite worked out\u201d why. As a big fan of impeachments and congressional investigations, I may have some helpful ideas.<\/p>\n<p>In his conduct while president of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has shown a habitual contempt for the rule of law, on numerous occasions willfully violating his constitutional oath by corrupting and manipulating the power of the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/trumps-eviction-moratorium-is-state-sanctioned-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eviction moratorium<\/a>. The Supreme Court explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/20a169_4f15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a> that the plan \u201cexceeded \u2026 existing statutory authority.\u201d Biden even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/03\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conceded<\/a> that the \u201cbulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it\u2019s not likely to pass constitutional muster.\u201d And yet, knowing all this, the president decreed it so, openly ignoring the Constitution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/05\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-strengthening-american-leadership-on-clean-cars-and-trucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitting<\/a> to cynically exploiting the slow pace of judicial branch rulings \u201cto keep this going for a month, at least \u2014 I hope longer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Biden again knowingly subverted the will of Congress when he transferred loan payments for millions of affluent students to taxpayers in hopes of affecting the 2022 midterms. The president does not possess the statutory power to \u201cforgive\u201d or \u201ccancel\u201d loans. Just ask congressional leaders like Nancy Pelosi, who correctly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/flashback-nancy-pelosi-says-president-lacks-authority-to-forgive-student-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> that \u201c[p]eople think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness \u2014 he does not.\u201d He did it anyway. Unilaterally. The president used the emergency powers found in the HEROES Act, passed after 9\/11 to help U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, to justify his decree. We know that Biden cynically exploited the bill, because, by his own recent admission on \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d he concedes there is no emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope that Republicans don\u2019t limit themselves to a presidential impeachment, either. There might be numerous reasons to investigate Attorney General Merrick Garland, but none deserves more scrutiny than his role in chilling dissent by intimidating parents who opposed critical race theory and Covid mask mandates. <\/p>\n<p>In October 2021 the National School Boards Association sent a letter to the Biden administration requesting the FBI investigate school board protests, offering a handful of alleged acts of criminality as justification to treat millions of parents as potential \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d threats. The letter uses this phrase (twice) to provide the administration with the justification to trigger a PATRIOT Act investigation. Then again, all of it was coordinated. We learned later, through a FOIA request, that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona had likely <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/11\/bidens-education-secretary-miguel-cardona-commissioned-nsba-letter-smearing-parents-as-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solicited<\/a> and helped with the verbiage of the letter. Garland, who regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/21\/merrick-garlands-version-of-justice-for-all-doesnt-include-his-political-enemies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ignores<\/a> violence and threats directed at conservatives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/ag\/page\/file\/1438986\/download?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">acquiesced<\/a> and directed the FBI and U.S. attorneys\u2019 offices to investigate parents. <\/p>\n<p>The NSBA later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsba.org\/News\/2021\/letter-to-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apologized<\/a>. The Biden administration, which regularly libels millions of political opponents as would-be violent extremists, never did.<\/p>\n<p>Not every investigation leads to impeachment, sadly. But that doesn\u2019t mean the GOP shouldn\u2019t scrutinize whether the president benefited financially from his brother\u2019s and son Hunter\u2019s leveraging of the family name and the United States government to extract millions from Chinese and Ukrainian energy concerns\u2014for which there is plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/23\/questions-joe-biden-should-answer-about-hunters-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">circumstantial evidence<\/a>. We already <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/27\/voicemail-shows-joe-biden-knew-of-hunters-china-dealings-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">know<\/a> Biden lied about the extent of his knowledge regarding Hunter\u2019s \u201cwork.\u201d And, in a functioning democracy, it is imperative we know everything about the president\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p>While they\u2019re at it, it would also be nice if we could learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/02\/the-afghanistan-debacle-looks-worse-and-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chaotic and inept <\/a>Afghanistan pullout that left 13 service members dead and thousands of Americans stranded in theocratistan. Did Biden dismiss intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/17\/us\/politics\/afghanistan-biden-administration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a> warning about a swift collapse of our Afghan allies for political considerations? Why did the administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/staggering-number-of-u-s-green-card-holders-stranded-in-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mislead<\/a> the public about the number of citizens and green-card holders who were stranded? We have yet to hear a coherent explanation for why the administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/26\/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handed a list of allied names<\/a> to the Taliban. Nor do we know the story behind that face-saving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/10\/world\/asia\/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drone strike<\/a> that ended up killing 10 innocent Afghans, seven of them children. Let\u2019s find out.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they could also get to the bottom of the FBI\u2019s role in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/30\/zuckerbergs-admission-of-fbi-meddling-in-2020-election-is-even-bigger-than-it-seems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">limiting<\/a> speech on social media platforms during the 2020 election. The White House, after all, has proven to be quite comfortable attempting to dictate speech. In July 2021, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/psaki-white-house-flagging-covid-disinformation-for-social-media-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> it was \u201cflagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.\u201d The White House not-so-subtly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/20\/white-house-social-networks-should-be-held-accountable-for-spreading-misinfo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened<\/a> social media platforms to suppress certain political opinions and stories. Under what constitutional power does the president get to dictate what should be considered mis- or dis-information? And under what power does Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/disinformation-board-tackle-russia-migrant-115737111.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get<\/a> to create an Orwellian \u201cDisinformation Governance Board?\u201d How pervasive is the law enforcement agency\u2019s contact with media companies?<\/p>\n<p>If you, like me, believe in the unencumbered free-association rights of everyone, including tech companies, you must be really curious why these corporations, which drop tens of millions every year in lobbying for favorable regulations, allow the state to dictate speech codes. Then again, all of this sounds semi-fascist-y. I\u2019m unsure how impeachment plays in the polls. But, for the survival of democracy, we need to get to the bottom of all of it. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at MSNBC, Steve Benen contends that Republicans, poised to take back the House next year, keep promising to impeach Joe Biden but \u201chaven\u2019t quite worked out\u201d why. As a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1670621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1670621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}