Where is Congressional oversight of the Republican Administration?

[The Judged]

Answer: Not in the US Congress!

Instead, Republicans call for investigation of "leak" about illegal international CIA prisons.

There is no way the founding fathers of this country or the framers of the US Constitution authorized Congress to transfer its powers to a "majority political party."

By creation of certain Congressional Rules, members of private political organizations who have as their members elected officials of the Congress have done just that!

They have created such a rule that allocates total control over Congressional committees, Congressional Rules, and thus and the products of Congress.

They have created such a rule that grants a "majority political party" with two more seats on a Congressional committee than all other members of Congress, in that body of Congress, that are not members of that "majority political party."

They have created such a rule that empowers a private political organization to exercise "party discipline" over its members who are also members of the Congress, by use of coercion and threats, up to and including continued membership on those committees and other acts against the elected officials and their home districts or states including supporting challengers in election primaries against those elected officials for that political party's nomination for public office in the next election cycle, in order to perpetuate duress and make those elected officials of Congress enact the will of that "majority political party," over the expectations of a "majority" of the American Public and against the interests of the American Public that would be attained by a vote of a simple majority of all the members of Congress as elected by the American Public.

They have created such a rule that usurps the powers of the American People to have their elected officials to Congress enact the collective will of the American Public as opposed to the publicly unaccountable will of the private organization known as the "majority political party."

This power is not granted by the US Constitution, and should be challenged all the way up to the US Supreme Court on the basis of Congress exceeding its powers in transferring its constitutional powers to a private entity, and on the basis that the existing rules of Congress, heretofore considered to be beyond Constitutional challenge or checks and balances, are the source of this transfer of power, and that such laws that the Congress shall pass that are unconstitutional are redressable by the American citizens in the US Supreme Court.

A successful SCOTUS challenge would result in such laws being struck down, and the only recourse would be for the Congress to redress its existing rules which create an unconstitutional transfer of power, or to continue to see its laws challenged and overturned as unconstitutional.

This is part of the system of checks and balances for the Congress:

While the Congress derives authority to set its rules for operation from the US Constitution itself, the rules that they do adopt may not achieve an unconstitutional effect upon the Congress.

Despite popular beliefs, the rules of Congress are subject to checks and balances by the US Supreme Court.

If and when Congress adopts a rule over Congressional operations that achieves an unconstitutional end, such as a Congressional rule that enables and is shown to cause a transfer of Congressional powers to a private organization outside of the Congress, that has as its members elected officials of the Congress, and a private organization that demonstrates direct influence over and direct accountability over those members of that organization that are members of Congress, in the allocation of seats exclusively to those members of that private organization who are elected to the Congress onto Congressional committees that have, as a result of this Congressional rule, "majority political party" powers to control the process and substance of the legislative process and who then use these powers to actually pass a law by an act of the US Congress, then such law is redressable by any American Citizen who is affected by this law to the US Supreme Court and challengeable as unconstitutional.

[yourout]

1. Astounding.....upset about the leak but not the fact we have...

secret torture chambers. Ain't AmeriKa grand.

[Erika]

2. The checks and balances have been usurped

by a GOP Congress who thinks they exist only for the rubber stamping of an extremist president.

Only now are we seeing some of the moderate republicans taking their duties of checks and balances seriously.

[The Judged]

3. The American Public must protect the Rule of Law & their Constitution!

They must challenge the laws that are the product of the Congress using Congressional rules that usurp the responsibilities of our government under the US Constitution.

They must expose the "majority political party" powers that have evolved over our government in an end run around the US COnstitution.

While political parties are not prohibited by the US Constitution, they certainly aren't granted the powers that they currently exercise over our government.

The American Public needs to make the case to the US Supreme Court, or risk the continued denial of many of their Constitutional rights as provided by the US Constitution.