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To: Marcella
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)

If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.

Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.

Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.

Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.

Some references

[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html

[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.”
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html

[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html
73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934)
https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit

[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear.
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html

[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf

[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement
http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/

236 posted on 03/30/2015 11:54:24 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Ray76; Marcella

Congress as a WHOLE has authorities of considerable force.
What you have here is mostly “ANALYSIS”! And, NONE of it applies to your whipping post, Trey Gowdy, as a committee chairman.

Just, STOP, with the diversions.

Blinded to the point that TREY GOWDY is but one man, chairing one committee, under the boot of Eric Holder’s corrupt JD, you make him out to be the arbiter of the WHOLE congress.

He is NOT.

Your litany of powers have nothing to do with the limitations in power of Trey Gowdy, as a chairman of one investigative committee.

Your litany is directed to powers of the Speaker.

Gowdy has already addressed your deposit! Gowdy has SAID that it was something for the WHOLE congress to take up, under the prevue of the Speaker.

My problem is succinct. You slander Gowdy and deny the facts of his limitations. You never stop slandering Gowdy.

Also, there is political timing issue that is rather relative. Hillary Clinton is running for prez. Timing the full court press to take her down is not irrelevant.

Those in charge of the timing are just not going to put your personal gratification at the top of the damn calendar.


238 posted on 03/30/2015 12:11:58 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Ray76

Congress should put her away. But the fact is they can’t even agree on conference dates, let along bring motions to the floor.


251 posted on 03/30/2015 10:52:18 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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