Convention of States endorser and 2024 presidential candidate, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida vowed over the weekend to wage war on Washington’s weaponized system of justice, including the DOJ and FBI. According to Real Clear Politics, the governor has been working on a plan for months to eliminate “some of the problematic components of the DOJ” and rebuild the federal government’s justice system into what the “Founding Fathers envisioned.”
“We’re not going to let all this power accumulate in Washington, we’re going to break up these agencies,” he pledged.
“We’ve seen throughout this country that the DOJ and the FBI are controlled by one faction of our society,” he added, citing concerns over the Attorney General Merrick Garland targeting pro-life activists and parents at school board meetings. Additionally, he bashed the federal bureaucracy for “colluding with tech companies to censor information such as what they did with the 2020 election.”
Reportedly, the governor has assembled a team to build a step-by-step plan for deconstructing corrupt government agencies. The team includes fellow Convention of States endorser Rep. Chip Roy of Texas.
Last year, Roy accused Merrick Garland of overseeing “an increasingly politicized FBI that seems hell-bent on making examples of average American citizens who don't align politically with the administration.”
“Congress owes the American people transparent accountability for any and all wrongdoing by the FBI and Garland's DOJ,” he concluded. “Even further, the FBI needs a complete and total overhaul and we should return primary law enforcement power to the states and to get the Bureau out of the business of politics once and for all.”
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Reports of DeSantis’s anti-DOJ crusade surfaced late last week after the federal government slapped former President Donald Trump with 37 felony charges. The indictment was met with widespread disapproval, including from the Sunshine State’s chief executive.
“The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society,” DeSantis tweeted. “We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending upon political affiliation. Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter?”
As an Article V supporter, DeSantis knows that Washington “will never voluntarily give up an ounce of its power.” The only way to take that power away is through an Article V convention.
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2024 candidate vows to ‘break up’ DOJ, FBI
Published in Blog on June 13, 2023 by Jakob Fay
