No, Congress cannot. It does no have the authority. All it an do is subpoena. And no, there is no detainment facility within the Capitol complex, unless you’re talking about the press galleries. When people are arrested in the Capitol complex, they have to be taken to the DC jail.
When people are arrested in the Capitol complex, they have to be taken to the DC jail.
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Probably where they are supposed to be taken.
I would imagine 95% of a ‘planned’ protest would be detained and charged and ‘ordered’ to appear before a DC Court, with very little or no interaction with the fine residents of DC Jail.
The DC mayor and Council have been having a ‘good time’ and getting a lot of press by being ‘arrested’.
Yes, they are hauled off in plastic restraints and processed in a field office (or bus). They then have the nerve to liken themselves to the “Freedom Riders” and others that had to put up with Bull Connor and his fire hoses, and other assorted ‘good old boys’ in the deep south.
The way to get the Mayor and Council to “STOP” this foolishness is to take them out in regulation cuffs, and put them with their ‘guarded constituents’.
This ‘crap’ would end forthwith.
Yes it can subpoena but it does not have to go through the US attorney General to enforce the subpoena. Congress can retain its own counsel to bring actions in the courts to enforce its subpoena and isn’t required to rely on the US Attorney to file suit.