Posted on 06/06/2019 2:09:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
House Democrats on Thursday unveiled a proposed resolution that would grant congressional committee chairs sweeping new powers to unilaterally “initiate” judicial proceedings to enforce subpoenas in federal court, as long as they first obtain the sign-off of a small, Democrat-dominated group of House leaders.
The resolution, obtained by Fox News and set for a vote before the full House on Tuesday, marks a dramatic escalation in Democrats’ ongoing efforts to continue to keep multiple investigations of President Trump and his administration alive — even as the White House has vowed not to comply with what it calls an attempted “do-over” of Special Counsel Robert Muller’s Russia probe.
Ordinarily, Democrat-led committees would need to secure a vote of the full House before seeking to enforce subpoenas in court. By allowing committee chairs to act without a full House vote in the future, leaders could avoid tying up precious floor time — and also prevent Democrats from more conservative districts from taking multiple votes on contempt resolutions. Many of those members have said they would prefer to be working on policy instead of investigations of the president.
Committee chairs, under the resolution, could take the administration to court with the approval of a majority of handful of senior leaders in the House, dubbed the “Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group.” The list includes Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, as well as GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise. …
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Start jailing some dems...
Once one starts singing, the rest will fold.
Unless hilLIARy suicides them first.
There are no such things as new powers except those mandated by the Constitution.
The rest of the House should be pissed that they’re being told to buzz off
Exactly. . . putting make-up on a pig.
-PJ
What goes around comes around, Dems...............
Do Democrats suppose they’ll always remain in control of the House of Representatives? This precedent will be turned on them in the future.
Oh, who am I kidding? No matter who we elect it seems as if they all go soft in the head when they get to Washington.
They are SOooooo going to regret this when they lose the house.
The political equivalent of scorched earth tactics. They’re willing to destroy the country to get Trump.
Barr had better hurry up his investigation. Its time for the administration to launch their own offensive.
They are going to regret it this year.
How did ValJar put it, about when they won, how payback was gonna be a biotch?
Can only go so far, because the Executive Branch has power too.
I suspect the House wants to push the limits like a small child, just to see what the can get away with.
A federal court judge should be limited to their jurisdiction...a federal case that is beyond the circuits should be automatically heard by the supreme court, not by federal judges. Fights at the three branch levels should be directly heard by the three branches, not appointees.
DK
—>tying up precious floor time<—
They have hours and hours, days and days of free ‘floor time’ NOW! The dims don’t do anything now anyway!
Because one house of the representative branch can just grant itself new powers all by its lonesome.
Oh wait.
It can’t.
Good thing we don’t go nuclear when we’re in power. We’d sure hate the Democrats to use such tactics against us. /sarc
The GOP-e is not “we”.
No they wont, the idiot republicans will never recripicate, they only roll over and give in. This will only ever apply to attacking republicans
The Constitution? That silly old thing?
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