Posted on 06/20/2024 6:49:47 AM PDT by george76
It should be made very obvious to the American public that the police state folks running Justice think that they’re untouchable and are actually running things via blackmail and intimidation of our elected leaders. Most folks haven’t reached that conclusion yet.
2) Where would Garland be detained/incarcerated? Who would watch him and care for his needs?
CONgress has their very own Jail in the basement, for over 150 years now.
“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.
I’m pretty sure that 50 years or so ago, Congress had an actual jail cell in the Capitol for holding contemptuous witnesses, but I believe they eliminated in a remodeling project. Bring it back!
Doing that would require a pair. The GOP has sorely lacked that in 90% of its members — and I am excluding the obvious women.
Oops. Eyeamok beat me to it with actual data!
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Interesting! Nancy Pelosi must not have known about the jail, otherwise she would have used if for her political opponents.
Having authority is one thing. Having any cajones to use it is quite another.
Garland knows that Congress is full of craven cowards, many of whom don’t give a rat’s ass darn about America, the rule of law, our individual liberties, or our future as a nation.
Nothing’s gonna happen to Garland.
He’ll get off scott free, just like Biden, Obama, Schumer, Pelousy, Schiff/tt, AOC, and all the rest of the commies and traitors in WashDC
What you said.
If congress cut their budgets they could retain some control, but they won’t because of the blackmail from these rogue modern day Praetorian guards called the US bureaucracy use against the elected politicians. These Praetorian thugs are unelected and unaccountable and there is nothing about them that’s professional. They are greedy, partisan leftist apparatchiks.
The problem with this is that SCIF Clearances are specific to a particular one, not any of them in general.
“Would the Sargeant-at-Arms open fire?”
I sure hope so!
“Who would watch him and care for his needs?”
Who cares?
It may come to that if the election is stolen again. But I fear too many swamp monsters will raise their heads and we will on continue down the slavery path.
need another sirhan sirhan
I really wish this would happen to establish some credibility of this circus for the american people.
Provide him a deadline, maybe 2 weeks, if he doesn't comply let him know in the warning that he will be arrested.
I really wishhe would be arrested to establish some credibility of this do- nothing govt circus the american people are being subjected to.
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