Civics: Slotkin Promises Endless Lawfare
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin presents herself as a moderate Democrat, but there’s nothing moderate about her warning to students last week not to work for the Trump Administration. Do so at your peril, she said, because you might end up in legal trouble.
“I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity. I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,” she said at a University of Chicago forum last week. “I want that deterrence message.”
Deterring public service: Now there’s an inspiring message to a young person about American self-government.
Ms. Slotkin, who has presidential ambitions, has been one of the leading Democrats in promising to investigate what she calls the corruption of the Trump Administration. We don’t recall her criticizing Hunter Biden’s attempts to cash in on Joe Biden’s Presidency. But her double standard doesn’t mean she’s wrong about investigating the various Trump family business deals since 2025. They deserve the scrub they will no doubt get in the next Congress.
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The complaint cites the Senate Ethics Manual’sprovision allowing discipline for conduct that “unfavorably reflects on the institution as a whole,” even outside official duties. It also invokes the expectation that senators demonstrate “a proper respect for the principles of ethics and morality.”
CASA argues that threatening legal consequences for accepting employment with a sitting president undermines First Amendment association rights. Those are the group’s allegations, rather than findings by the committee. The request centers on whether her comments damaged the Senate’s reputation and discouraged lawful political participation.
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Thankfully for those who still believe we should not punish young patriots who wish to serve their country, the midterms are only two weeks away — and now we know exactly what Democrats plan to do if they retake power in Washington. They won’t just go after President Trump and his inner circle of advisors; they’ll go after young staffers throughout every level of government, and they will do so with the full weight and authority of Congress and their dark money donors. If they are successful, conservatives coming out of college looking to serve their country will be deterred from doing so.
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This is exactly the kind of damage they want to inflict, and the great irony is that I was the one accused of voter intimidation.
As @MZHemingway said years ago, “The process is the punishment.”
Politics and Higher Education: Slotkin Edition.
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First, we expose it. We talk about it. We understand it. But most importantly, we accept it. We accept the fact that there are significant numbers of senior members of the political class who are eagerly seeking to implement a dictatorship which will strip us of our rights as Americans if they are not stopped. Think about what Slotkin said. She wants to put people in jail – without any consideration of whether they actually committed any crime or not – in order to scare citizens of the other party away from participating in their own government. She thinks this is a good thing to do. She wants to do it. And until a spotlight got thrown on it by a social media platform that was no longer covering for her faction, she was happy to talk about it. She’s not ashamed she got caught. She doesn’t think she did anything wrong. Like the rest of the daddy-issue revolutionaries, she’s excited by the opportunity to rule.
