Posted on 08/02/2023 1:24:20 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
Jack Posobiec spoke with investigative journalist Julie Kelly about why the wife of the US attorney for Washington, DC, Matthew Graves, has had an "all-access" pass to the White House, despite President Joe Biden insisting that the White House and Justice Department are completely separate entitites. Graves refused to allow Hunter Biden to be prosecuted in his district, according to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely.
(snip) "According to that IRS whistleblower, Matthew Graves made that decision in March of 2022. That month, according to White House visitor logs, his wife visited the White House five times. Is she discussing this criminal investigation with anyone at the White House? Is this a quid pro quo, a way to reward Matthew Graves for continuing to round up criminally charged Trump supporters and Trump advisors [from Jan 6]?"
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
The most Important US Atty by far is the DC US Atty - for obvious reasons.
Jack Smith’s wife is a Dem Activist, also.
Sounds about right for Clown World.
So Graves under oath can say “he” never talked to Biden about it.
His wife did.
A mountain of corruption and not damn word from the worthless GOP. I’m beyond disgusted by the lot of ‘em.
There is only one party. All the important bills always pass.
The rest is a show.
There’s a reason we move in the wrong direction no matter who’s in charge.
One party advances “group A”, the other “group B”.
Can you recall a single time in your life when government, and their power, shrank?
This is standard operating procedure in all authoritarian banana republics. I wonder how much MONEY McCarthy was bribed with to allow all this to go on?? He could have stopped it on DAY ONE if he wanted to.
“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.
The commies are not even hiding the corruption anymore because they know they will always get away with it, ALWAYS..whenever you hear anyone on the left say that “No one is above the law” thats because they ARE the law..they make the rules
Why hasn’t any red state AG even tried to file suit over this public, in your face, obvious corruption??????
If he'd bribe some people, would he bribe others?
Nothing to see here....move along. 🤔
And the beat goes on...
BECAUSE the SCUM we all put into office are sDem lite, the only damn AG worth a damn shit is Paxton and the BASTARDS have now pressed charges against him too!! He is on suspension!! I have lost ALL FAITH in being able to get this nation back!!
All the house GOP has to do is refuse to pass a budget or continuing resolution. The government ceases to operate because it has to funds to do so. But our worthless GOP can’t even do nothing.
And this is surprising because...?
Because...DEMOCRATS ARE LAWLESS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE BALL LESS!
Yet no one will leave their parties. It’s always “we have to change it from within”
Rational, decent people can only conclude that the Biden Department of Justice is a corrupt organization that aids and abets the criminal conspiracy known at the Democratic Party. It persecutes any opposition to these bums.
The ‘beauty’ oc it is that the corrhption is so open and pervasive that the Democrat Party is able to pretend that its criminality is perfectly normal behavior.
All-access WH pass sounds like the WH cocaine could have been dropped or picked up by the pass-holder.
Because the entirety of the Establishment class are garbage people and they populate the leadership of both political parties. A new third party is the only way out of this mess.
And never, whenever possible, vote for a goddamn lawyer.
Do “all access” passes allow putting plastic baggies of narcotics in the cubby area?
Just askin’.
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