Posted on 12/06/2023 12:40:07 PM PST by Red Badger
If he’s a no show and is correctly held in contempt and the DOJ expectedly does nothing - it’s what we call bad optics.
That’s about it. Given Biden isn’t running all they care about is does this hurt their eventual nominee.
More kabuki.
I really don't have much time for our sitting congress either.....
Less floating and more action
Stand by to see the Democrats make the rules.
True, but the Biden crime family is not the only target here - their crimes have been systematically covered up and even enabled by a corrupt DOJ.
If the Biden’s are ever brought to justice, a lot of deep state scum will go down with them.
I suspect it will never happen though, because these evil government parasites will stop at nothing - I mean nothing.
Yep, I hope at a minimum the House proceeds with impeachment so at least the public has more elevated coverage of their crimes.
Why would Comer not want Biden to testify publically?
Perhaps he is more serious about getting Hunter on the record than allowing Dems to showboat.
I know that's a stupid question...
I am very sick of the Bidens...Very sick of the Obama's and the Clinton's. Raping and stealing from the American Citizens. And getting away with it...!!!!!
Yep, sounds like they are about to cut a “deal” with the POS.
I don’t see a Problem, Hunter comes in, you Hold his lawyers in Contempt, just for showing up, lock them down in the basement, then bring the crackhead behind closed doors for testimony, then jail the crackhead for contempt. The Speaker then signs an Order for both to be detained for 90 days and transferred to Club Gitmo that very night with orders that are to be kept in Solitary with NO Visitors as a matter of National Security.
“U.S. CODE
TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6—CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.”
Simply look up Hinds Precedents, especially chapters 53 and 51, and Cannon’s Precedents, especially chapters 184-185. You’ll find numerous detailed cases of Congress asserting its power, arresting people, holding them until they agreed to answer questions, and then releasing them. Some of these people did not refuse to appear, but simply failed to satisfactorily answer questions.
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/
In 1857, a New York Times reporter refused to say which members of Congress had asked him to get them bribes (protecting his “sources” just as various Judith Millers today protect the people who feed them proven lies that costs thousands of lives), so Congress locked him up until he answered and then banned him from Congress.
In 1924 an oil executive appeared but refused to answer certain questions, so the Senate held — literally held — him in contempt. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana argued that this question of contempt was of the gravest importance, and that it involved “the very life of the effective existence of the House of Representatives of the United States and of the Senate of the United States.” The matter was taken to court, and the witness fined and imprisoned.
Why would Comer not want Biden to testify publicly?
Perhaps he is more serious about getting Hunter on the record than allowing Dems to showboat.
Ah that makes sense, they’ll showboat for sure.
I can hear the distant rumble of a dozen angry letter machines whirring up all the way from Nevada
Biden DOJ is prosecuting Steve Bannon for contempt of congress.
Bcd mtgs are more deposition like questions and answers. Not the 5 min per politician in public meetings to bloviate and obvuscate.
WTF??? i WANT open testimony...
It’s standard procedure for Congressional hearings.
They have closed hearings before they open the doors and ask the same questions in front of cameras.
It’s been the way they operate for over a hundred years.......
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