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CJ Letter Published 3:43 p.m. ET Feb. 15, 2017 | Updated 4:07 p.m. ET Feb. 15, 2017

Ky. Sen. Rand Paul speaks during the Republican event at the Galt House in downtown Louisville on election night. Nov. 8, 2016(Photo: Alton Strupp/The CJ)Buy Photo

With the Trump Administration in meltdown chaos and the Russian connection unclear, Sen. Rand Paul insults Kentuckians with his flippant no-investigation side-step.Paul needs to study the Watergate era when respectable Republicans in Congress knew it was their duty to investigate Nixon. Now is not the time to play politic or cover-up for Trump.Let a Democrat take that U.S. Senate seat, so Congress can find the truth about the Russians helping to put Trump in the White House.

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Rand Paul should resign | Letter - The Courier-Journal

Rand Paul said that it doesnt make much sense for Republicans to investigate other Republicans (when asked about the overwhelming corruption in the Trump Administration.) That one statement is going to cost the GOP dearly in the next round of elections, as long as Democrats use it correctly. Ring of Fires Farron Cousins discusses this.

Transcript of the above video:

Great news, Democrats. Youve just won the 2018 midterm elections. How, you ask? Well, you can go ahead and thank Rand Paul for that. During a radio interview on Fox News Radio with Brian Kilmeade yesterday, Rand Paul was asked about the resignation of Michael Flynn and possible investigations into the corruption and unethical behavior not just with Flynn but within the Trump Administration. Here is what Rand Paul said, I just dont think its useful to be doing investigation after investigation particularly of your own party. Well never even get started with doing the things we need to do like repealing Obamacare if were spending the whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans. I think it makes no sense.

Well guess what Rand Paul? That whole sound byte, that little quote from you is going to be used incessantly until after the 2018 midterm elections because you may not think its a good idea to investigate Republicans right now, but you know who does? Everybody else in this country. They want to know whats going on. They want to stop the illegal behavior from this administration. They want to get the people who cant follow ethics laws out of power, and you want to sit there and tell us that its not ethical for Republicans to investigate Republicans? Man, Ive seen a lot of campaign gaffes in the 12-1/2 years Ive been doing this, but to be honest, this one could be one of the costliest mistakes that a Republican has ever made, because again, this will be used as a rallying cry for Democrats in the 2018 midterms when the American public looks around and sees the damage that Donald Trump has caused, sees all of the resignations, all of the unethical behavior and realizes that not a single investigation has taken place. Theyre going to come back to you, Rand Paul. Theyre going to replay that quote over and over and over again until American citizens have memorized it by heart.

To be honest, its not just you. Obviously youre not the only one who can do this, but its all Republicans, but at this point, youre speaking for every member of the Republican Party in Washington, DC. You admitted that you refuse to go after your fellow Republicans. That doesnt make you much of a senator and it certainly doesnt make you much of an American. It doesnt make you much of a person who likes to stand up for the rule of law. It makes you just as corrupt as the other Republicans in Washington, DC, Rand Paul, that you continuously knock.

You know, for a while, in spite of your insane economic policies, you were actually pretty good on social issues. You know, you would have been the least objectionable Republican who ran for president to actually win, but you lost all your credibility right there when you proved with this one quote, this one radio interview, that youre no better than the rest of them. Youre just as corrupt. Youre just as loyal to a corrupt party that doesnt give a damn about American citizens, doesnt give a damn about the rule of law. I hope that you just lost your party the 2018 midterm elections. I hope the Democrats have enough sense to use this quote against every single sitting Republican because they could take back the House of Representatives thanks to you.

Now I know Democrats have more seats up for re-election in the Senate, however, a clean sweep would give them control. Retaining most of them and winning a few more would make the Senate even, so it would only take one or two Republicans switching sides on a couple votes to really change the balance of power in Washington, and Rand Paul, its all because of your little quote right there, for your refusal to take on the corruption within your own party. You have proved that you are just as bad as every other Republican in Washington, DC.

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"I think that might be excessive. It looks like the President has handled the situation, and unless there's some kind of other evidence of malfeasance, this sounds like something that was internal White House politics and it looks like the President's handled it," Paul told the "Kilmeade and Friends" radio show.

Flynn resigned Monday evening amid revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had in December with Russia's ambassador to the US about sanctions placed on Russia. Pence had defended Flynn on television and denied he discussed sanctions after initial reports of the conversations.

And while several other Republican senators have called for investigation of the incident, Paul said it would not make sense to have more investigations, especially of fellow Republicans.

"I just don't think it's useful to be doing investigation after investigation, particularly of your own party. We'll never even get started with doing the things we need to do, like repealing Obamacare, if we're spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans. I think it makes no sense."

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I just dont think its useful to be doing investigation after investigation, particularly of your own party, he said.

Well never even get started with doing the things we need to do like repealing ObamaCare if were spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans. I think it makes no sense."

Paul's comments are a break with top Senate Republicans who signaled on Tuesday that they expect the Senate Intelligence Committee will likely look into Flynn's calls as part of its ongoing investigation about Russia's involvement in the White House race. Paul is on the Foreign Relations Committee.

"We have standing committees that have all the appropriate clearances that can do an investigation," he said.

Democrats are doubling own on their push for a special committee or independent commission to be formed to probe Flynn as well as broader ties between the Trump team and Russia.

Flynn wrote in his resignation letter that he"inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador" because of the "fast pace of events."

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Rand Paul: Flynn probe would be 'excessive' - The Hill (blog)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) andSen Cory Booker (D-NJ) have teamed up to tackle criminal justice reform once again, this time to restrict the usage of solitary confinement to special cases in juvenile inmates.

Paul and Bookers S-239 has been seen before, namely in 2014 when the two senators introduced a bill calledthe REDEEM act, which sought an overhaul of the criminal justice system to be more lenient of non-violent offenders, specificallyjuveniles. In 2016, then President Obama went forward with his own changes to the criminal justice system, which put a stop to solitary confinement for juveniles. Both Paul and Booker applauded the move, however, Obamas measure was a temporary hold. Thus Paul and Booker are once again acting to pass a law to put a stop to it.

While criminal justice reform has always been an issue Paul is famous for tackling, solitary confinement is one of the more cruel and unusual methods used in our prison systems that Paul wishes to put a stop to, and for good reason. As Stuart Grassian explained to PBS, the psychiatric effects are devastating. Especially if prolonged.

Stuart Grassian, a board-certified psychiatrist and a former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, has interviewed hundreds of prisoners in solitary confinement. In one study, he found that roughly a third of solitary inmates were actively psychotic and/or acutely suicidal. Grassian has since concluded that solitary can cause a specific psychiatric syndrome, characterized by hallucinations; panic attacks; overt paranoia; diminished impulse control; hypersensitivity to external stimuli; and difficulties with thinking, concentration and memory. Some inmates lose the ability to maintain a state of alertness, while others develop crippling obsessions.

As it stands, the bill has found cosponsors inSenators Mike Lee (R-UT), Richard Durbin (D-IL), James Lankford (R-OK), and Robert Casey (D-PA), truly setting the tone for a bipartisan effort to end solitary confinement for the youth, however, some are worried about Trumps tough on crime stance putting this bill down before it can become law.

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Rand Paul and Cory Booker push bipartisan effort to limit solitary confinement for juveniles - TheBlaze.com