Congress could pass a law to fix the futility of its hearings, by creating its own Congressional court and rules for testimony in Congressional hearings that had an arbiter and a person with authority to send witnesses to a holding cell for failing to comply with valid questions. If the President appoints the judges, and the marshalls are part of the executive, witnesses could validly be arrested, and later tried for an actual crime for failing to cooperate, and sent to a real pokey. It may get to that at some point, but with a divided Congress, it can’t happen right now.
Congressmen would probably need to let real lawyers in their employ ask the questions, since the only thing they are good at is grandstanding. They have no ability to ask a question properly or to follow up on answers that are given, except a very small few who were prosecutors, and many of those have forgotten.
Yes!
It was Congress who installed the FBI, and along with that came their congressional oversight.
I know they can not prosecute, but I believe they can jail a witness for contempt of congress. Maybe it takes a hard to get majority of the Committee from the opposition party, I don’t know but they all look like comedians at the moment.
The picking and choosing of what laws are enforced and are not enforced has been a scandal against the (quote) “Rule of Law”. Same for defying that other law... the Logan Act. They throw that around on both sides of the aisle like it was so much water and it’s made into a JOKE, because it’s them. If it were one of us, Oooo, maybe frog marched?
We still have today, increasingly, a Two Tier Justice.