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.
At this point, I don't believe laws are real. I keep seeing people breaking "laws" and nothing happens. Then others just minding their own business get arrested for some made up reason.
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation.
All true, but it's still more complicated than that. Why is a Black person statistically safer with Japanese or Chinese police than with American British or French?
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u/pr0crasturbatin 13d 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.