Trump's congressional allies have a predictable reaction to Scott Perry's phone seizure (via thereidout Blog)
have had something to do with the Jan. 6 attack and Trump's efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory. Perry is a key figure in the House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation. According to the committee, Perry aided in Trump's failed plan to install then-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, another election denier, as acting attorney general in the final weeks of his presidency.
Almost uniformly, GOP lawmakers responded with outrage over a sitting member of Congress having his phone seized, as though being elected makes one exempt from the law. Federal authorities executed a search warrant on Clark’s home in June. And law enforcement is taking a similar approach with Perry, who I should note is refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify before the Jan. 6 committee.
Almost uniformly, GOP lawmakers responded with outrage over a sitting member of Congress having his phone seized, as though being elected makes one exempt from the law. In reality, the fact that powerful people are theoretically subjected to the same laws as less powerful people is a tenet of democracy.In a statement to Fox News, Perry himself expressed outrage “that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress.
House GOP leaders were in lockstep on what effectively amounts to a"members of Congress should be immune from investigation” line of attack, too.
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