For Immediate Release
June 1, 2024
Contact: Taylor Haulsee
WASHINGTON — Last night, Speaker Johnson joined The Mark Levin Show to discuss the Democrats’ double standard for judicial oversight, potential remedies for President Trump, and the unprecedented weaponization of justice against the frontrunner of a U.S. Presidential election.
“It’s undermining the people’s faith and our system of justice itself. And to me, that is the greatest threat that transcends even this presidential cycle,” Speaker Johnson said. “People are losing their faith in our institutions.”
Click here to listen to the interview
On the weaponization of justice:
The weaponization of our system is doing lasting damage here. You know, the Democrats were cheering this of course and they’re going to stop at nothing to silence dissent, crush their political opponents. They’ve taken this dramatic step. They’ve risked the destruction of our entire system of justice to stop our nominee for president, because he was crushing Biden in the polls. I mean, that’s what is motivated this. And everybody who looks at it objectively has to come to the same conclusion. I mean, even the people that are cheering this along, they know in their hearts that this is wrong and it’s dangerous. It really is.
On the Democrats’ double standard for judicial oversight:
They don’t even seem to recognize how absurd it is. I mean, the left has been apoplectic about Justice Alito, speaking of that, you know, they just insist that he has got to recuse himself from future cases at the court because his wife waved a flag at their home. And yet the judge in Manhattan was an open Biden donor. I mean, clearly a supporter of the opponent of the defendant that’s in his court, his daughter’s raising, you know, millions of dollars on the trial that’s going on before him. I mean, the whole thing just smacks of corruption.
On Congress’ oversight role:
We have been the bulwark of the radical progressive agenda in the house. Of course, we only have the majority in one chamber, and it’s the smallest majority in history, as everyone famously knows now. But we’re going to do everything we can to hold them accountable for this and to conduct oversight.
You know, I was in Ohio with Jim Jordan yesterday, and he issued notices, we’re going to drag, at least attempt to drag Alvin Bragg in before the Weaponization Select Committee in the House to answer for this. And these rogue prosecutors, we’re going to have them come in and try to explain to us how this is fair. We’ll see if they defy that that order to come and testify to us, but we’re going to do our job and hold the line in every possible way we can and get accountability for this, because we have to do it.
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