Posted on 04/11/2023 12:55:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, alleging that the Republican lawmaker is trying to wage a campaign of intimidation over his prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
In his lawsuit, the Democratic D.A. said he’s taking legal action “in response to an unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress on an ongoing New York State criminal prosecution and investigation of former President Donald J. Trump.” …
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Have him ARRESTED and Remand him to the Capitol Jail while you investigate the last 20 years of his life searching for the crimes he committed.
“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.
Bragg has nothing to do with this.
He’s a fat moron hand picked for his color and obedience.
I wonder if Bragg’s lawsuit is written any better than he wrote Trump’s indictment?
As is using the word “unprecedented”…
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
demoncraps wage war while Republicans play tiddlywinks.
They have absolutely no human higher intelligence concept of right or wrong, just or unjust. They are not even human...
What F’N jurisdiction does the NY DA have in DC???
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.What would the GOPe do against a faction-in-name-only of their same party?
— Goal #15 of the 45 communist goals for the USA
Discovery could take a bunch of them down.
Curiouser and curiouser.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
Bragg is a good example of low IQ, Affirmative Action result of Haavard. Haavard passed him through to qualify for Federal Funds.
Somebody gave him a “Junior Attorney Playset” (ages 6-9) and now he thinks he’s Clarence Darrow.
Refuse to fund them. Imagine Repukes actually USING the power they have. Want the military funded....you’re not getting money to persecute Trump. Can’t have both
Dumb...stop fighting on their turf. You have the house of Representatives. No one gets any money without them. Use the power you actually have and stop writing letters.
Jordan could pull an Adam Schiff and accuse Bragg of anything from the House floor and be immune from prosecution or lawsuit.
And then there’s the irony of this statement: “...the Republican lawmaker is trying to wage a campaign of intimidation...” when Bragg has indicted President Trump with 34 felony charges over what amounts to paying a porn star to shut up and go away.
There’s this little thing called congressional immunity.
(It’s what saves schiff’s butt)
In any case, who is going to serve the papers on a sitting Congressman for performing a legitimate congressional act?
Good point, but they own the media as well as most every other institution in the USA. Our leaders need steel backbones and support of the GOP as a whole...
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