Posted on 05/06/2018 6:15:13 AM PDT by Helicondelta
On Sunday morning Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) went on with FOX and Friends and dropped this bomb.
Nunes said the House Intelligence Committee will move quickly to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress.
Rep. Nunes says he will move forward with a contempt resolution against DOJ AG Jeff Sessions for refusal to comply with latest House subpoena
Rep. Devin Nunes: Two weeks ago we sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a classified letter. Per usual, it was ignored… So last week we sent a subpoena. Then on Thursday we discovered they’re not going to comply with our subpoena on some very important information that we need. The only thing we can do is we have to move quickly to hold the Attorney General of the United States in contempt. And that’s what I’m going to press for this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Contempt of Congress worked so well on Eric Holder.
Why hasn’t Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the other elite Repubs. pushed forward for prosecutions of Hillary, Obama adm.
Learner, Lynch etc.? Because the left has dirt on all of them.
“Contempt of Congress worked so well on Eric Holder.”
Unfortunately for Sessions he isn’t a black liberal, so they just may be able to hold him accountable.
We shall see...
Difference is this time Trump is POTUS, and it will give him the cover he needs to fire that crook Sessions and his swamp-dwelling co-conspirator Rod Rosenstein.
Holder had Obama’s support. Sessions? We’ll see if he has Trump’s, assuming this comes to pass.
Then right after that Trump fires his butt, with prejudice.
Doubt even that will light a fire under him to start doing the job he’s cashing his paycheck for.
Hey Bob, why do you have to insert the race issue into every discussion? Stirring the pot?
$10 says they do NOTHING!!!
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
“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. One has to wonder how a previous Congress might have responded to Alberto Gonzales’s endless recitations of “I do not recall.”
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
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 can’t decide if they have something REALLY bad on sessions or if he is just another swamp rat. The disloyalty he has shown to the man who made him AG is breathtaking.
Maybe this is all a set up for Sessions to be replaced by Giuliani.
“Hey Bob, why do you have to insert the race issue into every discussion? Stirring the pot?”
YEP! Because that was the ONLY REASON, the fact that Obama’s Attorney Generals were BLACK, that fact is the ONLY REASON that they got away with the crimes they did, and were NEVER held accountable.
They were protected by their SKIN COLOR.
You may not like the fact that being BLACK protected them, but it sure worked - PERFECTLY.
I am learning too many Freepers love the means and methods of Holder/Lynch.
Obviously, the Sessions bashers, think the Attorney General's position is to be the President's personal attorney...
Paging the Magoos!
Judging by Guilianis performance this past week I will take a pass.
I thought the issue of the article was about Jeff Sessions. If you want to talk about the racial double standards, start another thread. Interjecting racial comments into every issue serves to derail the conversation, or maybe that’s the intent of doing so. Either way, it’s tiresome and boring.
I’m sorry if the fact that Obama’s Attorney Generals were BLACK, and thus protected from any type of accountability hurts your feelings, but that is a FACT, and many of us were VERY BOTHERED by it.
So, if you want to keep whining about me pointing out that Obama used RACE as a tool against conservatives, I’ll keep responding.
Fine line between overstight and interference. Great plan to give what they have to Nunes so he can share it with his crat friends. Winning, not.
Nope.
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