A Gene Robinson
@AlBuffalo2nite
🚨BREAKING
🚨BILL and HILLARY CLINTON..
They are demanding accommodations they never offered to anyone else because accountability was always meant for other people. When Republicans were subpoenaed, there was no courtesy, no flexibility, no patience.
There was jail.
There were contempt charges.
There was pretrial punishment dressed up as process.
Flynn was crushed financially and legally. Bannon was imprisoned for defying the same type of congressional demand. No one asked about time limits. No one negotiated formats. No one allowed voluntary interviews instead of sworn depositions.
Now the tables turn…and suddenly the language changes.
Now subpoenas are treated as suggestions. Now sworn testimony is inconvenient. Now four hours is too much. Now opposing transcripts are necessary. Now delay is framed as cooperation. This is not a legal argument. This is an entitlement argument. It is the belief that certain people exist above the enforcement layer of the system they weaponized against others.
Equal protection under the law does not mean immunity for the powerful. It means the same rules applied without fear or favor.
If defying Congress was jailable then, it is jailable now.
If depositions under oath were mandatory then, they are mandatory now.
The law does not bend based on party, pedigree, or proximity to power.
They are not asking for fairness. They are asking for exemption.
And that request alone tells you everything.