#GhislaineMaxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey #Epstein who is serving a federal #SexTrafficking sentence, invoked her #FifthAmendment right in response to every question asked during a deposition before the House #Oversight Cmte on Monday.

Rep Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia, one of the #Democrats on the Oversight Cmte, condemned Ghislaine Maxwell’s pursuit of #clemency during her deposition, but also faulted #Trump for not shutting down the idea.

#law #power #rape #EpsteinFiles

@johnpfaff.bsky.social A simple start for #CBP would be to confine them to the border, ports of entry, and hot pursuit of suspects fleeing therefrom. Prohibit them using any force (save only in self-defence under the same legal constraints and non-immunity as any private individual) or taking any armed or official action anywhere else or in any other circumstance. That alone is insufficient, but it would substantially reduce the harm while working out other changes.

After that, make them mandatory reporters: by criminalizing failure to report offences by colleagues and failure to preserve and produce evidence of offences by colleagues, committed at any time since the earlier of the beginning of the officer's career or the date of the first offence by a colleague of which the officer knows, except where the Fifth Amendment or the Garrity Rule would pertain.

IIUC (#lawfedi, feel free to correct me here), while the #fifthAmendment prohibits compelling testifying against oneself, it does not prohibit compelling testifying against others. And while Article I § 9(3) & 10(1) of the US #Constitution prohibit retroactive criminalization of acts or omissions, it does not prohibit compelling disclosure of facts and evidence about others of acts or omissions which were, at the time of occurrence, already crimes.