Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) said yesterday that a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate Hillary Clinton for ...something.
Cornyn implied that the only reason Hillary Clinton hasn't been charged with a crime is because the White House has influenced the investigation of her email server.
"I believe that Secretary Clinton has likely violated multiple criminal statues," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday.
Cornyn said Attorney General Loretta Lynch should name a special counsel to counter the "apparent inability of the White House to resist the temptation to try to influence or at worst obstruct the current investigation."
Another possible explanation is that Hillary Clinton has not actually broken any laws and Justice Department officials aren't planning to file charges against Clinton because there's nothing to charge her for. The good news is we don't indict people based on beliefs.
We expect a Republican president would say and do many terrible things, but for me one of the gravest concerns is what they would do to the Justice Department.
Multiple GOP presidential candidates have vowed to prosecute Hillary Clinton for crimes to be determined and it's easy for me to imagine them using the department to enable rather than reform abusive police departments across the country. Moreover, the Justice Department under Eric Holder declined to defend several laws based on constitutional grounds, such as the Defense of Marriage Act, but there's no doubt in my mind a future Republican president would appoint an attorney general whose idea of jurisprudence is strangled by their personal beliefs.
Republicans know a thing or two about politicizing the Justice Department because they've done it before.