Congress\u00a0<\/a>writes its own rules on investigations) it certainly was wrong. It certainly tramples on rights normally held dear by the left.<\/p>\nBut most of all what it did was expose that Schiff, for all of his pompous bluster, is doing exactly what he has accused President Trump of doing: using his power to investigate his political opponents.<\/p>\n
Instead of another panel of witnesses, we should get Schiff a mirror.<\/p>\n
I shouldn\u2019t be shocked by this. This has been a partisan exercise from Day 1. Want proof?\u00a0There were articles of impeachment filed against President Trump in January 2017, right after his inauguration.<\/p>\n
Want more proof? The votes in these impeachment \u201cproceedings\u201d have been completely partisan, every time.<\/p>\n
It used to be that Democrats and their co-conspirators in the media didn\u2019t believe in partisan impeachment.<\/p>\n
Current House leaders have quotes from the 1990s saying as much \u2013 like current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. But apparently that was just their standard for Republicans, not for themselves.<\/p>\n
Partisanship is bad enough. But trampling rights and norms of conduct in investigations is worse, and that\u2019s why Schiff should be formally censured by the House for his actions.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem lies with Congress writing its own rules for subpoenas and investigations, without any thought of due process.<\/p>\n
For example, when someone attempts to get an attorney\u2019s records in a judicial proceeding, he or she has to show why and must prove it to a court, and then a special judge is appointed to assist with the review. Care is taken. Attorney-client privilege is assumed unless there is evidence of a crime by the attorney. That didn\u2019t happen here because Congress and Schiff don\u2019t think they need to follow this standard.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem also lies with our \u201cthird-party doctrine\u201d in privacy law, something I\u2019ve been fighting for years. It goes like this: your records are not necessarily your records if they are held by a third party \u2013 like a phone company, an Internet service provider, a credit card company, or a physician.<\/p>\n
Ask yourself this: When you make a call, send an email, fill your prescriptions, or otherwise live your life, do you think your records are yours, or are they public? Because of some awful and ancient court decisions that predate the digital age, the law currently deems them to not belong to you.<\/p>\n
As a result, someone like Schiff can just go to the phone company and you will never know it, even if you are a fellow member of Congress or the president\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s been wrong to do to ordinary citizens. It\u2019s wrong to give Congress this power with no check. And it\u2019s wrong to do this to the president of the United States.<\/p>\n
House Democrats are shameless. But with these violations of rights, they\u2019ve reached new lows in an already low process.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time to stop Adam Schiff. It\u2019s time to move on from this witch hunt. And then it\u2019s time to fix the rules and laws that govern our privacy so Americans can feel safe in knowing their information and rights are being protected.<\/p>\n
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