Posted on 09/19/2023 6:55:33 AM PDT by CFW
NEW CHUTKAN FILES: I just obtained transcript of another sentencing by Judge Chutkan for a J6er, convicted by her of 4 misdemeanors after a brief bench trial. To say her view of what happened on January 6 is misinformed in an understatement.
It's not hyperbole, it's a lie:
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She should have already been brought before the House Judiciary committee and forced to read into the Record all her biased statements, then asked why she didn’t automatically recuse herself as REQUIRED under Current Ethics obligations for Judges.
“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.
We know what needs to be done with activist judges.
Well, she sentenced all those violent protesters who rioted during Trump’s inaugural, right? They got hard time, right, just like she’s giving to the Jan 6-ers, right?
Looks to be a Trump-hating, White-hating Affirmative Action black in whose court no Conservative White will ever get a fair trail.
The cases need to be dismissed with prejudice, including those already sentenced. Those who have wasted away or been tortured in prison need to be compensated, out of the pockets of the police, prosecutors, and judges who oppressed them. Said police, prosecutors, and judges need to be prosecuted and imprisoned for various forms of misconduct.
The GOP should be drawing attention to her obvious bias (and woeful lack of knowledge) and start the work to impeach her. She should be reported to the Bar and let them go on record supporting and endorsing her biases.
Jack Smith and his Biden cronies are in a quandary. They badly need a biased judge in this kangaroo court. Yet they know that if she refuses to recuse herself, Trumps attorneys will appeal her refusal all the way to the Supreme Court. That appeals and the many others that will follow will delay this trial and quite possibly run out the clock or get the entire fraudulent indictment tossed.
It should have been done on Day One of the inquisitions, and for every Judge that heard any case against Trump, They all should have been impeached just for Hearing the Case.
Impartial and fair….. riiiiiight
Jusde is not even an American, she is from Jamaica.
“The cases need to be dismissed with prejudice, including those already sentenced. Those who have wasted away or been tortured in prison need to be compensated, out of the pockets of the police, prosecutors, and judges who oppressed them. Said police, prosecutors, and judges need to be prosecuted and imprisoned for various forms of misconduct.”
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You stated it so much better than I did. The only reason I would want a re-hearing before an actual competent judge would to have the defendants be able to actually mount a defense and submit evidence. Judge Chutkan hamstrung the defense by working on behalf of the prosecution.
This Jamaican “Karen” needs to recuse her ass. She’s not all she thinks she is. Any proof she’s an American?
Great overview, thanks for posting. I’m frankly power-mad Pelosi did not exercise this arrest and confinement for her political persecutions.
I’ve known since I was a child that there is a jail in the Capitol building. Don’t know why I knew that...
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