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| Representative Andy Ogles |
by Alex Mormorunni, Guest columnist, The Tennessean, March 21, 2025- In August, the FBI intensified its fraud investigation into Tennessee District 5 Representative Andy Ogles.
Federal agents seized Ogles’ phone and searched his home.
On Jan. 23, Ogles responded by introducing a constitutional amendment to grant President Donald Trump, who could halt the investigation into his finances, a third term as president.
Shortly thereafter, The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee inexplicably withdrew its investigation into Ogles.
This is not the first time Ogles has genuflected embarrassingly before Trump. After Trump introduced his questionable proposal to buy Greenland recently, Ogles proposed a “Make Greenland Great Again” bill to enable the president to negotiate Greenland’s purchase from Denmark.
Trump invites Ogles’ shameless kowtowing. Speaking at a private event for House Republicans last year, Trump reportedly joked about serving a third term. Presidential suggestions and matching congressional proposals that are clearly unconstitutional erode Washington’s culture of deference to the Constitution.
.... Flippantly proposed constitutional amendments undermine normative deference to the Constitution. The passage of the Ogles amendment would accelerate that fatal centralization of power in one person Scalia describes. (read more)
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