Congress Should Check the Judicial Branch

Miles Guo/Guo Wengui, President Trump and More…has lawfare gone too far?

For decades every American schoolkid watched Schoolhouse Rock, and learned about how the Constitutional Republic they swore allegiance to every day secures “Liberty and Justice for all.” The framers of the U.S. Constitution divided our government into three branches as a safeguard of the People’s rights.

Is America’s own legal system being used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a weapon of war?

One of those branches is riddled with decay and needs pruned back: The Judicial Branch. The term “lawfare” is becoming more and more common because our legal system has been weaponized against the very people it was intended to protect. Justice is no longer blind; it’s now interpreted through the lens of which party’s president appointed a particular judge.

Worse yet, it looks like America’s own legal system may be getting used by the Chinese Communist Party CCP) as a weapon of war against us.

“Unable or unwilling to challenge other states militarily, states and non-state actors use legal strategies to weaken the enemy’s legitimacy,” according to a 2021 Cornell Law Review article. “Such ‘lawfare’ can be used to achieve a kinetic objective, to forestall one, to degrade the enemy’s will to fight, and to shape the narrative of war.” The article goes on to state that, “China is now the world’s leading practitioner of lawfare. The Chinese military prioritizes lawfare as one of the “Three Warfares” that shape its military’s influence operations.”

The obvious starting point in America’s lawfare response is to clean up and reform the judicial system, and that is the Constitutional responsibility of Congress.

Just as troubling is the fact that, “Meanwhile, the U.S. has no similar lawfare doctrine or strategy, even as China forces it to fight back,” but the U.S. “needs to develop a lawfare strategy.”

The obvious starting point in America’s lawfare response is to clean up and reform the judicial system, and that is the Constitutional responsibility of Congress. (We certainly cannot rely on the current Executive Branch to provide that check, when congressional investigations are revealing the that the moniker “China Joe” is apropos.)

Here are three things the 118th Congress must do now to curtail China’s lawfare:

1. Formally investigate the arrest and detainment of prominent Chinese dissident, Miles Guo (aka Guo Wengui), and in the meantime—as the motto goes— “Free Miles Guo.”

“A conspiracy is in plain view,” writes Matt Plumbo, “involving high-ranking DOJ officials, a sitting U.S. President, and an Attorney General, executed by American traitors who have the best interest of Beijing at heart, and financed by a CCP billionaire who stole from the Malaysian people, all to return one man, Guo Wengui, back to China.”

Are Prosecutors working on behalf of the CCP to carry out warfare on the United States, just as planned?

Not only did SDNY prosecutors admit in court in front of a federal judge that they had “worked a lot with China,” On April 6, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York unsealed a criminal complaint charging 34 agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in a transnational repression scheme to silence and harass Chinese dissidents, with Guo designated, “Victim-1.”

Why is the #1 whistleblower against the CCP, Victim-1 of the CCP’s lawfare, sitting in a U.S. prison, denied bail, detained without due process? Because prosecutors are working on behalf of the CCP to carry out warfare on the United States, just as planned.

2. Declare amnesty for each and every school parent targeted by the DOJ/FBI under the outrageous attempt to portray them as “domestic terrorists.” They were right to speak out, and egregious examples of lawfare against parents (and even students) for exercising their First Amendment rights abound.

One of the CCP’s unlimited warfare tactics has been infiltration of American schools to indoctrinate our children. Parents represent a threat to communism, and it has always been the goal of regimes like the CCP to take them out of the picture and replace them with the State.

Parents were targeted and persecuted with lawfare by their own government. Pardon them. All of them.

Yet, as they wait for Congress to pick the matter back up, a number of parents continue to fight contrived convictions, and some have even spent time in jail simply for speaking out.

Parents were targeted and persecuted with lawfare by their own government. Pardon them. All of them.

There is a growing list of cases in which federal courts have determined that federal prosecutors have engaged in serious misconduct.

3. Investigate and prosecute the prosecutors.

There is a “growing list of cases in which federal courts have determined that federal prosecutors have engaged in serious misconduct. Most notably, in the 2020 U.S. v. Nejad decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York heavily criticized the government for failing to turn over exculpatory evidence, requiring the entire U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to read her opinion and referring the prosecutors to the Office of Professional Responsibility for disciplinary review.”

Independent financial podcaster, Zach De Gregorio, released a well-researched video on April 2, Is Miles Guo Innocent, providing independent verification of the DOJ coverup of its lawfare persecution of Guo on behalf of Xi’s CCP—including financial ties that crush any semblance of impartiality.

The House Judiciary Committee investigation into SDNY prosecutor Alvin Bragg, led by Jim Jordan, is a good start. But the rottenness within our judicial system isn’t centered on one man; it is systemic. Congress needs to conduct a thorough investigation of the DOJ and the Judicial Branch lock, stock, and barrel and bring action against those prosecutors and those colluding with them “engaged in serious misconduct.”

There is corruption in our judicial system and the DOJ has been infiltrated by the CCP. So, why are we looking to the judicial system and the DOJ to fix the problem? Congress, step up and do that Schoolhouse Rock checks and balances thing. We’re all counting on you.

Kelly John Walker is an American statesman, writer, branding professional, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of FreedomTalk, host of FreedomTalk TV, and a freelance writer.