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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by justin66 on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:17PM (#25691803)
> Though I will argue that the assumption that the Capitol Police answers to the legislature is shaky, at best (in practice).

It's a matter of law that they answer to the legislature, this isn't an "assumption." Individually they have answered to a not very sharp police chief, and the Sergeants-At-Arms of the House and Senate, who are all in the process of resigning because of how badly they recently screwed up, if that's what you mean.

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by sangnoir on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:54PM (#25692692)
> It's a matter of law that they answer to the legislature, this isn't an "assumption."

I could have expressed myself better there - I was distinguishing between them being answerable to the legislature (de jure) in the logical, org chat way, and them "answering" to a mercurial president they ideologically agree with (de facto), in the here and now.

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