FILE UNDER “YOU ALWAYS KNEW HE WAS A SLEAZEBALL”: Creepazoid Congressman Adam Schiff first popped up on my radar screen after he led the “Russia! Russia! Russia!” scam. I remember quite distinctly watching him on live TV calling Tucker Carlson a “Russian agent.” No factual basis, no evidence, just a smear. In typical Carlson fashion, he laughed it off.*

Anyhoo, Just The News published this story yesterday:

“In the two decades before he became the Democrats’ U.S. Senate nominee in California, former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff repeatedly declared in mortgage and election filings that both of his homes – one in California and the other in Maryland – were his “principal residence.” The claims have now prompted an ethics complaint and could be prosecutable as fraud, experts said.”

It would seem that “saving democracy” has nothing to do with, oh, I don’t know, maybe following laws regarding residency requirements to serve the people?

I forgot: “Shut up, serf.”

*BONUS LEGAL TRIVIA: Many folks don’t remember that the landmark Gertz v. Welch decision establishing the higher standards in libel a public figure must prove, nobody remembers that the alleged libel was that the plaintiff was called a “Communist-fronter.” Nobody challenged whether that statement carried defamatory meaning. (After all, it was around 1969). Not so sure it would play out the same way today.