Judge Rips DOJ for Blocking Testimony of Lawyers Who Allowed Hunter Biden Charges to Lapse; Points Out They're Jailing Peter Navarro for Defying a Subpoena While Doing the Same

Jonathan Turley:

"Are you kidding me?"

Those are four words that no lawyer wants to hear from a judge in a hearing. But that was not the least of it for Justice Department lawyers fighting House subpoenas into the Biden corruption scandal.

US District Judge Ana Reyes slammed the DOJ for stonewalling Congress on the subpoenas while imprisoning figures like former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for doing the same thing.

The Biden administration has blocked the testimony of prosecutors Mark Daly and Jack Morgan, who were involved in an inexplicable decision of the Justice Department to allow major felonies against Hunter Biden to lapse.

In prior hearings, IRS whistleblowers testified that they had an agreement on the table to extend the statute of limitations on the crimes, but special counsel David Weiss allowed the period to lapse without any explanation. Since the DOJ was in the midst of plea negotiations, it made no sense that the DOJ would simply kill potential charges.

It makes perfect sense when you realize these are corrupt will-to-power fascists who will break every rule and violate every trust to advance the communist cause.

The House Impeachment Committee subpoenaed these men because the whistleblowers directly implicated them in arranging for the charges against Hunter Biden to lapse without action.

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Reyes noted the obvious: "There's a person in jail right now because you all brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena." The DOJ demanded six months in prison. Navarro is serving a four-month sentence.
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, leaving a House Oversight Committee meeting at Capitol Hill, Washington, DC on January 10, 2024The Justice Department has been accused of shielding Biden from prosecution. Getty Images

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon also received a four-month sentence.

Reyes noted, "I think it's quite rich you guys pursue criminal investigations and put people in jail for not showing up ... And now you guys are flouting those subpoenas. ... And you don't have to show up?"

Reyes noted that the DOJ lawyers were "making a bunch of arguments that you would never accept from any other litigant ... I imagine that there are hundreds, if not thousands of defense attorneys ... who would be happy to hear that DOJ's position is, if you don't agree with a subpoena, if you believe it's unconstitutional or unlawful, you can unilaterally not show up."

The Justice Department insisted that it is different when its own prosecutors refuse to testify and noted that the House had also refused a demand to have other Justice Department lawyers present for the depositions. They then stressed that the decision to defy the subpoena came after lengthy deliberations "at a high level."

Reyes then asked if the DOJ would drop its opposition if it were allowed to have DOJ lawyers in the room for the questioning. When the lawyers said they could not answer that question at this time, Reyes exclaimed, "Are you kidding me?"

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