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Cohen: If Barr Doesn’t Comply, ‘No Other Alternative’ But Using Sergeant at Arms to Bring Him in
Breitbart ^ | 3 May 20192,246 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 05/04/2019 1:47:48 PM PDT by conservative98

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” House Judiciary Committee member Steve Cohen (D-TN) stated that if Attorney General William Barr doesn’t comply with the committee’s subpoenas, the committee has “no other alternative” but to use the sergeant at arms to bring Barr to the House.

Cohen said, “I hope it would be inherent contempt. Because in inherent contempt, we’d go out, take him, and bring him in, and have him personally brought to the House.”

Host Anderson Cooper asked, “You actually want to send out the sergeant at arms and force the attorney general to come?”

Cohen answered, “Yes. Because otherwise, it’s up to the Justice Department. The Justice Department is not going to do anything to take a contempt citation from us, and enforce it against their boss. So, you’ve got

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: barr; billbarr; cantletgo; cnnfakenews; cohen; democrats; emptythreat; fakenews; friedchicken; kfc; lockcohenup; lunatic; obsessed; psychotic; stevecohen; thuggery; verysickman; williambarr
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To: conservative98

Makes no sense as the AG has already agreed to testify ... before Congress but not staff.


41 posted on 05/04/2019 2:03:53 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Lurker

I think the only one that he can ‘bring in’ is a member of congress.


42 posted on 05/04/2019 2:03:54 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: conservative98

Oh please do this. The idiot dhimmicrats are determined to destroy their party.


43 posted on 05/04/2019 2:04:18 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him. ~ Sun Tzu)
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To: faithhopecharity

He should eat a Big Bag of Dicks


44 posted on 05/04/2019 2:04:34 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Lurker

The Secret Service may have something to say about that little plan.


Not to mention 50 million Trump voters.


45 posted on 05/04/2019 2:04:43 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: conservative98

Since Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC in 1991, where did that bucket come from? Is it a prop like the fool Cohen stuffing his ugly face?


46 posted on 05/04/2019 2:05:21 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: conservative98

Cohen is a baldfaced lying turd. Barr has never BEEN subpoenied. They just want their foam slobbering contributors to THINK he has.


47 posted on 05/04/2019 2:05:28 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: conservative98

Sounds like Kidnapping


48 posted on 05/04/2019 2:05:29 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: conservative98

My guess is that he sergeant at arms would not make it past the front desk at the DOJ.


49 posted on 05/04/2019 2:05:43 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Freedom4US

He should eat a Big Bag of Dicks

Why give him something he’d like?


51 posted on 05/04/2019 2:06:19 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: conservative98

I think the Justice Department has bigger guns.


52 posted on 05/04/2019 2:07:07 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: BadLands59

These People haven’t matured since junior high school, have they?


53 posted on 05/04/2019 2:07:24 PM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: conservative98

Filthy coward. Bring back dueling. This fruit cup just called out Barr.


54 posted on 05/04/2019 2:07:48 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Lurker

The DemSocRats are losing their effing minds.


55 posted on 05/04/2019 2:08:02 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: conservative98

A guy who looks like THAT, I’d expect more to be sending Sheriff Roscoe.


56 posted on 05/04/2019 2:09:19 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("DonÂ’t piss off 'tolerant' people, theyÂ’ll kill you." -- DBrow on 04/04/2019)
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To: Pravious

Never mind liking at either end of the alimentary canal.


57 posted on 05/04/2019 2:09:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: conservative98

That idiot hasn’t a clue about the SoA’s responsibilities. He has no law enforcement powers.


58 posted on 05/04/2019 2:09:33 PM PDT by Mustard (tt)
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To: conservative98

This guy is a nut. There’s no way Congress is going to arrest a cabinet member from the executive branch. The dems are bound and determined to cause a Constitutional crisis, they’re trying to burn the country down.


59 posted on 05/04/2019 2:09:38 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: conservative98

This is what used to be referred to as a Kapo in the Nazi concentration camps.


60 posted on 05/04/2019 2:14:20 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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