Liz Cheney

CNN senior felony analyst Elie Honig blasted the Home Oversight Committee’s felony referral for former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney in a column for New York Journal, deeming it a “misguided fable.

“Even though you’re taking every word of the House Oversight Committee’s document on January 6 as gospel — and, please, don’t — Liz Cheney did not commit a crime. It’s not close. The advice on the contrary by means of the Republicans who ran the Committee betrays that they either don’t have any clue about prison regulation or don’t care because the politics of payback reign supreme,” started Honig.

Whereas the previous federal prosecutor called the disagreements between the GOP-led Oversight Committee to and January 6 Committee a “fair political debate,” he systematically took apart the suggestion that Cheney was guilty of witness tampering and buying “another particular person to commit perjury.”

“The Oversight Committee tries to use lipstick to its pig by declaring solemnly that it is making a proper ‘prison referral’ of Cheney to the Justice Department. Giant deal. You know how onerous it’s to make a ‘felony referral’ to DOJ?” asked Honig rhetorically. “Just go on the Justice Division’s site, click round, and you’ll find a kind that you may fill out and put up with a few keystrokes. Congratulations! You’ve now made a prison referral. (To be clear: Don’t if truth be told do that.)”

“This act of a proper ‘felony referral’ to DOJ is pure political theater and legally meaningless. The Justice Division does no longer want a felony referral from someone to do anything. Nor does a criminal referral require DOJ to do anything else,” he delivered.

Honig went on to lay down a marker for Lawyer Common-designate Pam Bondi and the Cupboard division she’s been chosen to guide.

“If DOJ lets the Committee’s record slide away into the political muck whence it got here, that’s a sign the brand new AG is playing it straight,” he concluded. “But if the Justice Division takes this seriously and pursues the Committee’s faulty fantasy of a Cheney prosecution, then we’ll understand they’re off the rails.”

 

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