DOJ Draws a Line

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) not only chairs the House Judiciary Committee in the new Congress, he’s also running the newly created United States House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The name is both too long and a classic example of the type of projection the Trump faction of the Republican Party is prone to. It’s projection in the same vein that Trump perfected. You could be certain that if he accused someone of, say, lying, or of using their connection to the U.S. government to conduct financially beneficial foreign transactions, that he was, in fact, doing it himself. In that same way, the reference in the name of the subcommittee to weaponizing the federal government reflects precisely what people like Jordan tried to do while Trump was in office and when he tried to hold onto power after losing the election.