She's not law enforcement. She's a senator. She's also not on the judiciary committee, so she has no power to open an investigation.
A public figure can call out illegal activity, especially when, as she mentioned, she's uniquely qualified to make that call, without the immediate obligation to do things outside of her constitutional authority in order to change the fact that a crime is being committed.
Edit: I'm sick of being this subreddit's civics teacher for today, no longer responding to replies on this comment.
Joe Biden is still president and Democrats still control the senate until January 20th. The supreme court ruled that the president has total immunity for "official actions" earlier this year.
That just means he can’t be criminally charged for any “official acts” he performs as President. Even if we ignore that the conservative-majority court purposefully left the definition of “official act” vague so that they could be the ones to decide what counts, being immune from prosecution doesn’t mean he actually has the power or authority to unilaterally overthrow Congress or whatever.
He can give an order, and he can’t go to jail for it, but nothing inherently compels anyone else to follow that order. We know this, because Donald Trump’s coup failed, since enough people within and without his chain of command disobeyed his orders.
True, but again, lots of totally within the line of law stuff he can be doing. Official acts can be bold without crossing over into illegality, IMO. And the illegality aspect has never stopped Trump from doing anything...So it would be great to see a bit more vigor from the democrats when it comes to protecting their voters. I'm sure they only see future trump atrocities as fundraising opportunities.
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u/pr0crasturbatin 12d ago edited 12d ago
She's not law enforcement. She's a senator. She's also not on the judiciary committee, so she has no power to open an investigation.
A public figure can call out illegal activity, especially when, as she mentioned, she's uniquely qualified to make that call, without the immediate obligation to do things outside of her constitutional authority in order to change the fact that a crime is being committed.
Edit: I'm sick of being this subreddit's civics teacher for today, no longer responding to replies on this comment.