{"id":57,"date":"2020-06-25T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/?p=57"},"modified":"2020-06-25T05:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:18:43","slug":"whos-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/2020\/06\/25\/whos-above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Above The Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58\" src=\"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/spreadeagle.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"148\" \/>Every elected, appointed, exempt or non-exempt state employee who has participated in the withholding of information from a state auditor is likely covering up a crime and probably belongs in jail.<br \/>\nBut they will never be prosecuted under Alaska law because Alaska&#8217;s Courts and Alaska&#8217;s Legislature have refused to provide the public with access to the constitutionally guaranteed right to hold the Governor and members of his Cabinet accountable.<br \/>\nSection 8 of Alaska&#8217;s Constitution, titled &#8220;Declaration of Rights contains the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The power of grand juries to investigate and make recommendations concerning the public welfare or safety shall never be suspended.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The grand jury shall consist of at least twelve citizens, a majority of whom concurring may return an indictment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If a whistleblower within the Department of Revenue knows what the Dunleavy administration is hiding, and believes that a crime has been committed, the only people he can bring it to, are people who are subject to immediate dismissal by the people withholding information from state auditors.<br \/>\nWhistleblowers need access to a People&#8217;s Grand Jury with authority to consider and investigate issues brought to their attention by someone other than the Prosecutors or the Courts; a Grand Jury that cannot be suspended or dismissed by the Governor or the Courts, a Grand Jury that can act on its own authority to investigate and issue indictments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every elected, appointed, exempt or non-exempt state employee who has participated in the withholding of information from a state auditor is likely covering up a crime and probably belongs in jail. But they will never be prosecuted under Alaska law because Alaska&#8217;s Courts and Alaska&#8217;s Legislature have refused to provide the public with access to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/2020\/06\/25\/whos-above-the-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;s Above The Law?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/citizens4ethics.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}