If you think the HRC email scandal was a miscarriage of justice why is there no redress of grievance being demanded?

2016-08-16T17:05:45-04:00

Within the Bill of Rights we have this little gem: "The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law ... prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances."

If a petition were to be sent to the White House (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/) would you sign it? How would you word it?

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Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 16 at 2016 5:23 PM

2016-08-16T17:23:36-04:00

It is. There are House Sub-Committees and at least a half dozen Washington watchdog organizations who are far from letting this matter go away.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 16 at 2016 5:23 PM

2016-08-16T17:23:46-04:00

Well, with the FBI and the WH stating that since she wasn't sworn in under oath and didn't intend to commit any wrong doing, I don't think a petition to the WH has a snowball chance in Hell.

Response by SGM Erik Marquez made Aug 16 at 2016 8:52 PM

2016-08-16T20:52:16-04:00

The problem with that procedure is it does not require action only a response from the administration .

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 17 at 2016 10:31 AM

2016-08-17T10:31:24-04:00

Have you read the official responses from the petitions on that site?

It also got to the point that they needed to raise the number of signatures required to respond.
I stopped going there when I realized that it was essentially a joke and that the majority of petitions were things not relevant or appropriate for the Executive Branch to action or comment on.