On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced an epic new lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DoJ), in light of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s most recent indictment against 45th President and leading Republican presidential contender Donald J. Trump.
“I just filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice following its failure to substantively respond to my Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to uncover what White House officials including President Joe Biden communicated to Merrick Garland & Jack Smith about the unprecedented indictment in the classified documents case of a former U.S. President and one of Biden’s political opponents in the 2024 Presidential election,” Ramaswamy tweeted. “I’m also filing a separate FOIA request with the DOJ to uncover any similar communications relating to the just-issued Jan 6 Trump indictment. We should demand accountability and transparency.”
As Ramaswamy noted, this is not the first time he has sued the DoJ on FOIA grounds, hoping to get the DoJ to disclose information the American people so desperately crave. In June of this year, Ramaswamy launched a previous lawsuit in response to Jack Smith’s documents case-related indictment.
“Every American deserves to know,” Ramaswamy said in June, as the Daily Mail previously reported. “If the captured media fails to do its job, real leaders in this country need to step up and do it instead.”
Ramaswamy continued, saying, “Jack Smith has created a dangerous precedent by criminalizing the behavior of Trump’s lawyers who offered him legal advice, labeling them co-conspirators instead. This jeopardizes the future of our legal system. If we fail to admit the truth, Jan 6 will just be a preview of far worse to come. We must reunite this country, but the path forward will not be easy.”
Ramaswamy is right. One could make the argument that Jack Smith is effectively criminalizing thought. Indeed, Ramaswamy contends that Jack Smith is again using novel legal theory to go after Biden’s political opposition — and that should scare everyone.
“A general rule of thumb is that if you are trying to indict a political opponent and a former President, in the middle of an election, it better not darn well be based on an unprecedented, untested and flimsy legal theory, and that is exactly what we have here, which is dangerous,” Ramaswamy added during an appearance on Fox News’s ‘The Ingraham Angle’, which he attached to the tweet.
We applaud Ramaswamy for his earnest desire to fight for justice. Our Republic may well be at stake — not just the 2024 Republican primaries or general elections. If the DoJ can prosecute former presidents on a whim, what does that mean for the rest of us? This is a dangerous precedent indeed.
Original Article: https://dcenquirer.com/presidential-hopeful-vivek-ramaswamy-announces-epic-new-lawsuit-against-the-doj-in-light-of-trump-indictment
