https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDWzN6TW5Y&list=PLf0ejejfF_wYRhBwtSwvNBPGyA95Ll7mt
Too bad we don’t have any real Americans in the Republican controlled Congress, Hell just having an American as Speaker would go along way to fix this travesty.
He could bring in Wray, hold him in CONTEMPT of CONGRESS, and JAIL HIS ASS, just to bring him back before the Committee every single day in an Orange Jumpsuit, Leg Irons and Shackles...to resume testimony...
“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.
An extraordinary businessman and tech dreamer, Elon Musk seems to be discovering that conservatives are correct on the issues. This is beginning to cause him no end of trouble.
Pictures of bananas are racist! Monkeypox is a racist term! Denying your racism is racist! Admitting your racism is racist! Everything is racist! White supremacists are everywhere!
Not to worry. The GOP is on it. Anytime now they will have hearings about the tortures, killings, FBI inflators, and heavy-handedness. Just not yet though.
Precisely.
IâÂÂm with Elon.
BLM Rioters Who Torched An Atlanta Wendy’s Get Probation, $500 Fine From Fulton County Judge
Well Elon, it has ALL gone too far- way too far! Peaceful protestors should never have been arrested and charged with false accusations of sedition or insurrection! At worst they should have been fined, but even that is debatable because THEY WERE LED INTO THE CAPITOL BUILDING BY COPS!
There were a few who committed crimes, no doubt, but the vast majority of the protestors were not vio.ent or destructive! Those that were were almost assuredly antifa, blm or agents dressed like maga supporters!
Musk really likes the Babylon Bee, and the censorship of it helped spur him into action on Twitter/X.
The actor who was arrested is from Babylon Bee. I think he was the one who played the husband in the mini-series of the couple moving from California to Texas. He was won over to the Texas way when he was sneaking barbeque around the corner hiding from his vegan wife. (She was won over when she found out she was a crack shot at the hooting range).
This arrest got Musk’s attention, and I think he will act on it. He’s easily distracted, but has the ability and resources to succeed at those things he focuses on.
Those banas need to be rotten like the politicans.
I really like this guy. Funny as heck in the Bee’s Cali to Texas vids.
How long before they start arresting people for watching live feeds of it online?
When they came for Siaka Massaquoi, a California-based actor and activist, I did not object because I was not a actor activist.....
Sound familiar ?
What happens when it goes too far? Do we send in a strongly worded ballot or what?