Posted on 03/20/2023 1:40:13 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., stood firm in his support for President Donald Trump over the weekend amid news that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is poised to indict the 45th president in relation to years-old allegations surrounding the tired Stormy Daniels case.
“Alvin Bragg is abusing his office to target President Trump while he’s reduced a majority of felonies, including violent crimes, to misdemeanors,” McCarthy stated on Twitter. “He has different rules for political opponents. Republicans stopped the radical DC crime law, and we will investigate any use of federal funds that are used to facilitate the perversion of justice by Soros-backed DA’s across the country.”
On Monday, the speaker further addressed the DA’s possible move to indict President Trump later this week, slamming the politicized legal attack.
“It doesn’t matter if it was President Trump or if this was a Democrat,” he told the press. “It should be equal justice in America, and stop going after people because you have political differences. I see people all the time that I have political differences with. I respect their opinion. I may disagree with it, but why would you ever try to use the law for it? And it goes against everything that this Manhattan DA has professed. He brags about lowering felonies to misdemeanors and not prosecuting.”
McCarthy continued, “We’ve watched crime in New York where people are afraid to walk the streets. We watched campaigns and I will tell you, one of the reasons we won races in New York is based upon this DA – of not protecting the citizens of New York. And now he’s spending his time on this?”
On Saturday, President Trump confirmed rumors that “ILLEGAL LEAKS” from the Manhattan DA’s office seemed to indicate that he could be arrested “ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK.”
Trump noted that there was “NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN.” He also pointed out that any indictment would be “BASED ON AN OLD & FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE…”
How about, it must be.
I get the feeling McCarthy is enjoying this newly discovered approval
Folks, we’ve been screwed over constantly by Repubs moving to the left and forsaking us. Now, for once, we have a liberal Republican that has been pleasantly surprising so far... keep up the good work Mr. Speaker.
Yup—he has surprised me as well. However, I’m waiting for the “Yup, he screwed us again” to happen at any time.
he hasn’t surprised me. Words are meaningless. He has the power of the purse.
It’s pretty damn hard not to get this one right. Hmmm, Soros paid goon trying to muzzle the only sworn enemy of the neocons, globalists, MIC and the corrupt IC, should I look the other way or speak the truth?
Who could have predicted one lone GOP official would rise to a profile in courage?
Let’s name some of the others over 20 years. I have one hand with five fingers and another if needed.
Oh Kevmac, you so funny.
Go Kev
He found his b@lls.
People are talking about not spending any money tomorrow...
I say take it a step further...
Check whatever you buy for place of origin...
If it’s New York, put it back on the shelf.
This is a threshold issue, no need to get into facts or even an answer to a criminal complaint.
"NEW YORK CITY!?!?!?!"
"Get a rope!"
Positioning himself to be Trump’s Vice-President?
Marko
I am always willing to believe people can change at an operational level, even if they are changing for rank, selfish, political reasons.
They may not change personally, but at this point, I don’t much care. (It is good to keep this in mind, that they may not change in a fundamental way, though that happens too occasionally)
I am at the point I will take help for this country from any quarter that can deliver any kind of helpful action to slow the slide.
The new old saying… no witnesses, no evidence… it didn’t happen applies.
Now’s the time to release the Jan 6 video, all of it. And free the prisoners. We can’t talk about equal justice while they are locked up.
GOOD! Now arm the committee chairs with ARREST and DETAINMENT orders from the Speaker and let them do their job.
“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.
Good job McCarthy...
So far he has been about a B+
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