What Happens When Politicians Break Their Oath of Office?
Every elected official, service member, and many public employees take an oath of office that includes a sworn promise to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. For those who might doubt that, a quick review of the latest news should put any questions to rest. Despite the First Amendment right to freedom of the press, the former guy not only refused to let taxpayer-funded public officials talk to the press, he turned loose the Department of Justice and FBI to track down reporters phone calls. That he particularly concentrated on those whose articles he didnt like because they were bad press, further exacerbates the violation of his oath of office. Good press or bad press, freedom of the press is inviolable and a cornerstone foundation of our nation. Equally abhorrent was turning his corrupt attorneys general loose on members of Congress who were critical of the president. As reported by the Washington Post late last week: The Justice Department in 2018 secretly subpoenaed Apple for the data of two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as the data of their current and former staffers and family members, in an aggressive push by the Trump administration to determine who was leaking classified information to the news media, according to a committee official and one of the affected lawmakers. That the probe was turned only on two Democrats can only be construed for what it wasa flagrant abuse of power by the executive branch. It was done in secret because the perpetrators knew a vast and justified condemnation would arise if it was publicly revealed.