FAIL: Rep. Adam Schiff sounds alarm about Trump dismantling checks & balances, Civics 101 ensues

Doug P. | 9:30 AM on October 21, 2017

Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff was among the first members of Congress to claim that Russia “hacked the election” and to accuse Trump of colluding with that country to defeat Hillary Clinton. Those talking points have now evolved downward, and these days Schiff will grasp any impeachment straw he can. This story about Trump has given Schiff another thin straw to grab:

News w/ @BresPolitico: Trump personally interviewed two candidates for U.S. attorney jobs in New York: https://t.co/vdJsffQxxj

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 19, 2017

Cue the congressional Resistance:

One day at a time, one brick at a time, Trump dismantles our system of checks and balances while a cowed GOP watches on, horrified but mute. https://t.co/qB1ZvyJ5F8

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) October 20, 2017

Oh really? Schiff’s tweet caused a lot of alarm (as it was intended to do), but reality as usual sets in eventually:

https://twitter.com/molratty/status/921689590389493761
https://twitter.com/Snitfit/status/921709112408395776

Another Democrat fails civics!

@RepAdamSchiff needs a 1L refresher. It'll be fun! Who wouldn't want to go back.

— CiCi Van Tine (@CiCiVanTine) October 21, 2017

The Democrats weren’t nearly as alarmed in 2009 when then-Attorney General Eric Holder indicated that President Obama was involved in the personal selection of U.S. attorneys:

“I expect that we’ll have an announcement in the next couple of weeks with regard to our first batch of U.S attorneys,” Holder said Thursday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing which stretched out over most of the day due to breaks for members’ votes. “One of the things that we didn’t want to do was to disrupt the continuity of the offices and pull people out of positions where we thought there might be a danger that that might have on the continuity–the effectiveness of the offices.But…elections matter–it is our intention to have the U.S. Attorneys that are selected by President Obama in place as quickly as they can.”