Comments on: The Capitol Police will be expanding outside DC

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 21:30:04 +0000

“The Congress can not properly over-ride that distinction through statutory legislation.” – Art Deco

The list of things that we now know government agencies do, even though they cannot properly over-ride their controlling statutes, is too long for one comment.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 19:05:48 +0000

Should one wonder if Pelosi’s Praetorians have a mandate to intimidate judges….?

Because here we go:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/thudemocrats-dug-themselves-election-integrity-hole-courts-may-bury-them

Yep, clawing back, state by state. The “beginning of the end”? Or merely the “end of the beginning”? (With apologies…)

One might hope that the Democrats’ thirst for endless destruction boomerangs entirely. (Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of psychopaths….)

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:38:18 +0000

“In February 2019, [Capital Police] Lt. [Michael] Byrd was investigated for leaving his department-issued Glock-22 firearm unattended in a restroom on the House side of the Capitol…”

Great. Toking on the job.

By: geoffb

geoffb — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:03:05 +0000

Also,
“In February 2019, [Capital Police] Lt. [Michael] Byrd was investigated for leaving his department-issued Glock-22 firearm unattended in a restroom on the House side of the Capitol…”

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:16:01 +0000

Congress makes the laws that define the authority of the entities which they create through the other laws they pass….

Again, the government is segmented into executive, legislative, and judicial departments. The Congress can not properly over-ride that distinction through statutory legislation. They’re not performing a support-staff function by having a permanent presence in Miami or Frisco.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:47:34 +0000

@Robert Shotzberger: Their authority is limited to the capital.

Limited by whom? By Congress. Congress is changing the limit to include the whole nation.

Congress makes the laws that define the authority of the entities which they create through the other laws they pass….

@R2L:This doesn’t address the core constitutionality of whether Congress can have a police force, if they are restricted to making the laws and not enforcing them.

Section 9 of Article I (what Congress cannot do) does not say that Congress cannot have police. Article I does not say that Congress is limited to the powers enumerated in Section 8, which are already quite broad. The “necessary and proper” clause probably has all that’s needed…

By: sdferr

sdferr — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:49:23 +0000

via Instapundit, Reynolds posting: Paul Sperry at RealClearInvestigations — https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/07/07/naming_the_capitol_cop_who_killed_jan_6_rioter_ashli_babbitt_779601.html

Lt. Michael L. Byrd

That is the name.

By: zenman

zenman — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:56:48 +0000

Someone needs to ask Pelosi, so you don’t trust the local/state police, nor the FBI to investigate legitimate threats congress people?

Of course, if the goal isn’t to investigate LEGITIMATE threats, then the USCP will be investigating ANY threat, including colorful rhetoric which Heir Nancy Jackboots Pelosi deems threatening to her.

By: bob sykes

bob sykes — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:27:04 +0000

Will the “strike force” people who will go door-to-door the enforce covid vaccine compliance be deputized Capitol Police officers?

Do USCP have arrest powers outside DC?

By: gregg

gregg — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:25:18 +0000

“Robert Barnes @barnes_law
Guess which federal police force is completely exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, completely outside executive branch control & completely beholden to most corrupt members of Congress. The same one extending its authority to the whole country, w/ cross-country offices.”

https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1412590660029501440