Another
Prick in the wall ….
In
the motion filed late Wednesday evening, Navarro argued that the Justice Department’s move to bring the charges against him was “in direct contradiction of decades of Department of Justice policy and precedent.” He pointed to the Justice Department policy that said that advisers to the President were shielded from congressional demands for testimony and claimed that that “immunity continues even after the tenure of a particular advisor to the President.”
Navarro argued that he had “been unfairly caught in a dispute between the executive and legislative branches of our government and placed on the horns of a dilemma: follow the explicit instructions from the President he served as a senior advisor for four years, or risk being held in Contempt of Congress and criminally prosecuted by the Department of Justice.”
“A prosecution for Contempt of Congress following a legitimate assertion of Executive Privilege precluding Dr. Navarro’s appearance before the Select Committee, the prosecution of Dr. Navarro for contempt of Congress necessarily violates the doctrine of Separation of Powers and is unconstitutional,” his filing said.
Additionally, there is an almost completely redacted section in the filing, under a subhead that said, “The Government’s Presentation To The Grand Jury Underscores The Unusual Way the Department Has Approached this Prosecution.”
In a court filing earlier this week, the Justice Department pushed back on those allegations and said it was “
not law enforcement’s normal practice to ask combative, unrepresented subjects to self-surrender.”
“And only a few days before, when the case agents attempted to interview him and serve him with a subpoena at his residence, the Defendant at first refused to open the door and then, when he did, told the agents to ‘get the f*** out of here,’” the Justice Department said in the earlier filing.
The court is scheduled to hear arguments on Navarro’s motion on September 23.
Fuck you weasel
