Posted on 10/17/2022 6:34:01 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
The Department of Justice is recommending that former Trump advisor and War Room host Steve Bannon be sentenced to six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for defying the January 6 Committee.
Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress in July for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the committee.
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Anti-Trump neocon Liz Cheney and Democrat Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chairs of the committee, had celebrated Bannon’s conviction in a joint statement after he was found guilty.
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Since this is for Bannon. Yeah, pay him $10M with a written apology signed by everyone on the J6 fake committee and everyone in top management at the DOJ. It’s not really enough but it’s a good faith message in their effort to stop harassing US citizens over this nonsense.
They are not weaponized enough to get around what stands in their way. Weaponization is a two way street.
What will happen to this country if the corrupt criminals keep jailing the people who oppose them? I don’t think it will end good or peacefully. Things can change real fast if people can’t afford to feed their family or heat their houses this winter.
Great. Now do Eric Holder.
I concur. Things get ugly real fast.
Deep State may be trying to give ‘Rat’s who still vote that way motivation to vote this time around.
Ain’t Communism wonderful.
China bad ; US good .
How long was Eric “Dick” Holder’s sentence for contempt of CONgrift?
Even if we have a red wave in November and take both the House and Senate, I’ve no faith that those seated will do what needs to be done.
So many lawless actions being committed. So many that should be going to prison.
The desperation just oozes, doesn’t it?
Maga-bingo!
The Supreme Court will need to decide.
Let's hope.
“Will the Supreme Court state the following: Congress makes its own rules or something like this is a Legislative branch issue?”
With respect to the rules and internal conduct of the House and the Senate the Supreme Court has traditionally deferred to the separation of powers provisions of the Constitution. Therefore it is unlikely to take up a case on the merits of the rules or the conduct of the Jan 6 committee.
Note it was not Congress convicting him for declining to testify. Congress referred his failure to honor the subpoena to the DOJ which in turn elected to prosecute him on the existing laws related to defying a congressional subpoena. He was convicted in a federal court of breaking a federal law.
If asked to rule on conduct of the trial in federal court, and/or the statute he was convicted of violating, the Supreme Court will likely uphold the law and the conviction. Almost any judge will agree Bannon should have followed the law and appeared to testify when served with a lawful subpoena. He had the option when appearing before the committee of pleading the 5th amendment and by exercising his constitutional rights not giving testimony. Recall the IRS official Lois Lerner took this approach when called to testify before a House committee in 2013. She did appear before a House committee but exercised her 5th amendment right not to answer questions put before her. Subsequently the House of Representatives voted her in contempt of Congress for not testifying, but she was not prosecuted by the DOJ because she did appear before the committee and invoked her 5th amendment rights. Had Bannon appeared before the January 6 committee, invoked his 5th amendment right not to testify against himself, and was then tried and convicted in federal court for not giving testimony, it is very possible the Supreme Court would have overturned the conviction on the grounds the Constitution specifically protects citizens from being compelled to testify against themselves.
Note the administration of the law is not always fair and those administering the legal process (law enforcement officials, judges, prosecutors) have considerable administrative discretion in determining who to prosecute and on what charges. We the people elected the Congressional representatives who conducted the January 6 inquiry. If they behaved poorly and unfairly, the remedy is for the people to vote them out of office as was done with Liz Cheney. As to the political weaponization of the DOJ, again the redress lies with the people to vote into office a new POTUS who will appoint an Attorney General who has respect for the law and will exercise appropriate judicial restraint. Alternatively, if the DOJ is abusing its power, Congress can impeach and remove from office the Attorney General or the President.
Our system of government only works if honorable people are elected and appointed to office who respect the Constitution and laws of the republic. Unfortunately, many citizens and elected representatives today are not virtuous nor do we as a nation today have a common sense of values. When the people and their government are corrupt, the results are predictable.
Bannon will likely serve a sentence and pay a fine for the choice he made to defy the subpoena.
EVERY one of the House special select J6 committee needs to be put in prison, IMO. These last months they’ve shown themselves to be nothing but corrupt political zealots who only want to make sure that President Trump does not run again. American traitors, zealots, insurgents, political operatives - call it what you want. They are not there to serve the people.
how much time did Humper Biden get for child rape/porn on his lap top with him being the star?
Bannon’s lawyers should make hay in the legal community that a six-months, $200k fine should become *the new standard* for contempt of congress. So that when Democrats are found guilty of contempt of congress, each and every one of them should expect a “mandatory minimum sentence” of that fine and that prison time.
When the penny drops, that “good for the goose is good for the gander”, I would expect Bannon to get instead the usual velvet glove treatment, with a small fine and no jail time.
If Bannon does get the max, then contempt of congress penalties should become a Republican party platform.
That hasn't been the case in decades.
Almost by design. It's such a huge morass of corruption that no one could know where to dig in.
Just like declaring The Cankle innocent, Steve Bannon is guilty as the day is long and must be jailed and fined.
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