WASHINGTON — The Article III Project (A3P) issued the following statement after a D.C. judge ordered Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 for a four-month prison sentence.
“We have had constitutional executive privilege for 250 years--going back to George Washington--so the President of the United States can receive candid, confidential advice from his advisors without fear their advice will get publicly aired before courts or Congress.
“President Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland have shamefully destroyed this, in their partisan quest to politicize and weaponize the Biden Justice Department to go after President Trump and his top aides.
“Peter Navarro, Trump's top White House trade adviser, is currently sitting in federal prison. And Steve Bannon, a top Trump outside presidential adviser, is heading to federal prison on July 1. Biden and his aides are taking off the political battlefield two of Trump's top surrogates before the 2024 presidential election.
“Constitutional executive privilege is foundational to the separation of powers, the proper functioning of the presidency, and thus survival of the Republic. Partisan activists in the Biden White House and Justice Department pretend they can disregard this simply because someone didn't fill out the right form or check the right box.
“This is all part of a broader criminal conspiracy by Biden, his aides, and his allies to politicize and weaponize law enforcement and intel agencies to violate the constitutional rights of Trump, his aides, and his allies for the purposes of partisan lawfare and election interference. These are republic-ending tactics.
“On Day 1, the Trump 47 Justice Department must open a federal criminal probe on this Biden Democrat criminal conspiracy, under 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242. Revenge is best served cold,” said Davis.
The Article III Project (A3P) was founded by veteran GOP operative and attorney Mike Davis, who, after helping win the Senate confirmation battles of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, developed the reputation as a “take-no-prisoners conservative eager to challenge the left with hardball tactics,” as reported in The New York Times.
A3P defends constitutionalist judges, punches back on radical assaults on judicial independence (like court-packing) and opposes judicial and other nominees who are outside of the mainstream. Davis previously served as Chief Counsel for Nominations to Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and led the Senate confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and a record number of circuit court judges.
