Rep. Jim Jordan’s Judiciary Tweet Mocked For Struggling With Basic Legal Concepts

A Twitter account overseen by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is receiving new consideration for scuffling with fundamental authorized ideas after it railed towards the search warrant executed on the Florida dwelling of former President Donald Trump.

The Home Judiciary GOP Twitter feed, which lists Jordan as rating member in its bio, tweeted on Monday:

If they will do it to a former President, think about what they will do to you.

— Home Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) August 8, 2022

The “it” refers back to the FBI executing a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, a authorized course of that will contain investigators convincing a federal decide or Justice of the Peace that proof of against the law would probably be discovered throughout a search.

Critics went to city on the GOP tweet provided that Jordan and all different members of the committee ought to know that the method is similar for former presidents and everybody else:

The truth that the regulation applies to the president, and never simply the remainder of us, is a function of democracy, not a bug. https://t.co/m4SrVOTGvF

— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 9, 2022

Thanks, Home Judiciary GOP, for summarizing succinctly the precept of "the rule of regulation": the regulation applies to everybody, even a former President. https://t.co/nhDxOjb8EB

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 9, 2022

Like, get a warrant from a decide and execute it inside its detailed boundaries? https://t.co/XEU3DzMYlA

— Adam “NOT THE SAFE” Sessler (@AdamSessler) August 9, 2022

Hello Fitness center. There isn’t a decide within the nation who would log out on this warrant with out vital possible trigger & you understand it.

— snipz (@SnipzPA) August 9, 2022

When I attempt to overthrow the federal government, invalidate a free and honest election, illegally steal labeled paperwork, and interact in lavish corruption as President, I will count on them. https://t.co/YAuRnIVk48

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 9, 2022

I am Black, so I have been contending with the very actual chance of a lot worse than the fiction you are claiming for the reason that day I used to be born. https://t.co/4RIXsx4pgc

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) August 9, 2022

oh no, is my mar-a-lago subsequent https://t.co/5bYxSokJpk

— Kristin Chirico (@lolacoaster) August 9, 2022

I didn’t flush any presidential data down the bathroom or transfer labeled paperwork to my home in violation of varied federal legal guidelines so I believe I’m okay however thanks for the priority. https://t.co/eAjcHPdCsI

— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) August 9, 2022

Sure, in case you break the regulation and steal prime secret paperwork from the White Home and commit a number of the most heinous crimes in American historical past, this can also occur to you. That’s a GREAT precedent! That’s referred to as justice.

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 9, 2022

Is the argument right here explicitly that former presidents are above the regulation? https://t.co/mBCBRDBduh

— Max Burns (@themaxburns) August 9, 2022

Most of us would not be frightened, as we aren't criming. https://t.co/DaL4OpyLR0

— Rep. Gloria Johnson (@VoteGloriaJ) August 9, 2022

Through which the GoP members of the Judiciary committee take a courageous stand towards the 4th Modification.

Motherfuckers, do you assume any of us thought the FBI *could not* search our houses if that they had adequate possible trigger to persuade a decide to signal a warrant? https://t.co/Cn0vOFS0yo

— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) August 9, 2022

That is actually what "nobody is above the regulation" means you goddamn morons. https://t.co/75lTIZlAjD

— Dan Stapleton (@DanStapleton) August 9, 2022

If I stole labeled paperwork from the White Home (allegedly), I actually hope they'd do it to me. Please clarify why they should not, a-holes. https://t.co/AZhTkBUdIS

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 9, 2022

If they will examine Donald Trump for against the law, they could be capable of examine YOU for against the law!!!!

The unspeakable horrors of being a felony!!!! https://t.co/TbCpUc4aH0

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 9, 2022

Actually none of our pee tapes are protected. pic.twitter.com/jS09Rh55Io

— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) August 9, 2022

I do not plan on stealing any labeled paperwork or committing treason anytime quickly, so I believe we're in all probability good right here. Thanks to your concern although.

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 9, 2022

This might be haha humorous, apart from the truth that the FBI has actually been doing this to folks FOR DECADES. https://t.co/Dp6parwGmb

— Sarah Tuttle,🌻 (@niais) August 9, 2022

getting so a fella cannot even attempt to overthrow the federal government and set up himself as dictator for all times with out the fuzz sniffing round afterward https://t.co/OMFrsHimJ7

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) August 9, 2022