Posted on 07/02/2024 5:19:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The contempt charges stem from Garland's refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
South Carolina GOP Rep. Ralph Norman, who sits on the powerful House Rules Committee, said on Monday that he believes his party has enough votes to charge Attorney General Merrick Garland with inherent contempt of Congress.
Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna introduced inherent contempt articles against Garland last week, after the Justice Department announced it would not take action against the attorney general.
The contempt charges stem from Garland's refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
"I know our party will probably have to pass [the resolution] without the Democrats, but I think we've got the votes to do that," Norman said on the "Just The News, No Noise" TV show. "I'm glad that it's gotten as far as it has, [Luna] has worked on this for, I think, over two years to get this right, to make sure she has it in a form that will ... pass the House and ... get the job done with Merrick Garland."
Norman noted that they intended to vote on the resolution last week, but changes were made that delayed the vote. He also commented that House Speaker Mike Johnson is in favor of the resolution.
Inherent contempt would normally force the House Sergeant at Arms to detain Garland and bring him before the lower chamber. However, Luna introduced a resolution last week that would fine Garland $10,000 a day until he complies with their subpoena instead of arresting him.
“This version of inherent contempt will become standard practice for those who seek to undermine Congress as an equal branch of government,” Luna said in a post on X on Friday.
The comment also comes after the House Judiciary Committee filed a lawsuit against Garland over the tapes, which Biden has exerted executive privilege over. But Republicans have rejected the executive privilege argument, because the lower chamber already has a transcript of the interview.
“Any privilege that could conceivably apply to President Biden’s interview with the Special Counsel was waived when the Executive Branch released a transcript of that interview to the press and produced that transcript to the Committee,” the lawsuit said, according to the Hill.
I think I read somewhere that “inherent contempt” is just one step in severity below “double secret contempt”.
Ralph Norman’s an idiot.
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South Carolina GOP Rep. Ralph Norman, who sits on the powerful House Rules Committee, said on Monday that he believes his party has enough votes to charge Attorney General Merrick Garland with inherent contempt of Congress.
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The teste-less (R)N(C) stating what it BELIEVES, not what it’s DONE, claiming, like the obverse side of the Uniparty coin, “Grade us on our *intentions* & NOT on our OUTCOME(s)...or lack thereof”
A sternly written letter is coming
Check
Roger that.
Why did Luna relent and shift from arrest to levying a fine?
“””Republican on powerful House committee says GOP has the votes to hold Garland in inherent contempt”””
THEN, JUST DO IT!!!!
The GOP needs to stop their squishy announcement that they are filing a lawsuit against Garland.
The Pubbies aren’t serious. It’s all for show.
If they have the votes, what are they waiting for?
Luna and others do but not a House majority without watering it down a bit. Still some teeth.
And then nothing.
Why not do the fines and jail?
Didn’t Steve Bannon just go to jail yesterday?
I’d like to see Garland in jail.
Then STFU and DO IT! I’m tired of hearing it talked about, JUST DO IT.
I think he should threaten to send Garland a much more sternly worded warning.
Why not $500,000,000, after all it slowed down Trump, right?
I think he should introduce a bill authorizing the Sergeant at Arms to deputize southern rednecks that were kicked out of the military for COVID VAX refusal to be bounty hunters and bring Garland in dead or alive. OK, maybe using any means necessary, but I like dead or alive better.
Is it possible the tape is not the same as the transcript?
Rather than claiming the votes are there, show us.
Just do it.
Don’t stick your finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
Just do it.
Show some leadership.
Just do it.
Fine Garland until he owes $1 million.
If he still does not produce the recording, then arrest and jail him until he does.
This is unlike the prosecutions of Bannon or anyone on our side. He is currently in contempt and he can remedy this by complying with the lawful subpoena.
And he actually threw Bannon in jail for the same charge with far less legal basis. He will get no sympathy.
Stop talking about it.
Just do it.
Ditto....Do IT!
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