Posted on 02/09/2023 1:47:51 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
Mainstream Network Radio News.
Hunter Biden told Congress they have no standing to Investigate him, nor request documents, and he WILL NOT COMPLY!
The FBi opened up an Investigation of Hunter Biden I’m 2018!
Odd, they drag mafia bosses up there.
They don’t. He’s a made man and is untouchable. Why is that so hard to understand?
they are all “above the law”, in a land
where treason, the reason, is acceptable .... for them.
Then he can go to jail for contempt of Congress until he does.
National security gives the People standing.
Bet he didn’t say that when HE was in the Congress, and on the Judiciary committee, etc.
Congress lacks “legitimate legislative and oversight basis” to request such relevant information per Hunters Team of Lawyers.
An unemployed Crack Head with a Team of DC Lawyers.
Sorry. Headline says Hunter Biden, not Joe. Sorry.
That’s exactly the same BS Bubba Clinton and AL Gorlioni pulled when they were caught accepting money from China; No controlling authority to investigate them. And people buy this crap??
This didn’t turn out so well for Steve Bannon.
He knows he’s untouchable.
Bannon isn't a part of the Deep State....Difference!
He’s spittin’ in our faces ! Just like his old man,livin’
the life of a parasite...
Well we’ve been waiting for a good reason to use that Congressional Sergeant at Arms, and the prison under the Capitol building.
It wouldn’t be unprecedented. All in accordance with the Constitution.
Not like Congress will do anything anyhow other than talk.
“Standing?” surely that wasn’t the word used. “Jurisdiction” would be the correct assertion here, whether the areas of inquiry have a legislative purpose per Congress’ oversight powers. Of course it’s a given that the DOJ would not prosecute contempt, though the oversight-related arguments, in lots of particulars, are a lot stronger that the successful assertion by the last House “We need Trump’s returns so we can exercise oversight of how the IRS scrutinizes past presidents’ tax returns.”
With a statement like that from this crackhead, Speaker McCarthy should start handing out Signed Warrants for his Arrest and Detainment, TODAY!! Show the snot nosed entitled druggie what Power and Authority you really have to investigate him.
“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.
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.