The ones who were withdrawn by the GOP leadership are not on the committee. True.
When the GOP re-takes the House in 2022...it will have no standing to investigate anything Biden is doing....
And thus we end up with an unchecked executive. With Biden--an institutionalist--there is no real danger. When you have Trump...what will happen with no check? Everything will be referred to the courts and (again) thanks largely to Trump, the Supreme Court is now staffed by justices who believe in the concept of "super precedents"; a term that comes from hallowed antiquity right? No--it's been around since 1975. If you're scoring at home, that is the same year Saturday Night Live started--only this concept is funnier.
Justice Amy Comey Barrett subscribes to the theory of super precedents. For an explanation, the ABA writes;
A precedent should not be overruled just because it doesn’t fall on the super precedent list, Barrett said. It just means that the decision isn’t among the cases that
no one questions anymore.
Barrett’s 2013 article listed these cases as super precedent:
• Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, upholding Supreme Court review of state court judgments involving federal law.
• The legal tender cases, upholding the constitutionality of paper money.
• Mapp v. Ohio, holding that the Fourth Amendment applied to the states through the 14th Amendment.
• The civil rights cases, holding that the 14th Amendment applies to state action rather than individual acts of discrimination.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the U.S. Supreme Court nominee, has acknowledged that seven cases are “super precedent,” but Roe v. Wade isn’t one of them.
www.abajournal.com
I do love the "no one questions anymore" stipulation. Gee, what could change that? Oh yeah, a judicial nominee who does question it!
Anyway, these are the sages who will now be charged with oversight of the executive branch now that nobody is minding the store in Congress--by congressional decree! Its going to be a very dark future regarding executive power going forward. The only hope we have is for the American people to choose wisely...and about 1/2 of the population has ceased to believe in reality. Dark days are coming.