Posted on 12/13/2023 7:40:08 AM PST by McGruff
Hunter is willing to speak anywhere he’s not under oath.
Hunter had received a subpoena
And the Capitol Police should have escorted him straight to the interview in Leg Irons and Shackles.
“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.
He’s just exercising his rights under Democrat privilege. It protects them all. They operate in a consequence free universe.
Hunter, 53, said........“Let me state as clearly as I can: my father was not financially involved in my business, and certainly not in my career as a high paid artist.”
What? I am shocked.
Everyone assumed Joe Biden bought Hunter the Deluxe Crayola Color Caddy
to assist his son’s thriving million dollar artwork sales.
The key phrase there is “not financially involved”......remember that. :^)
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Hunter Biden refuses to comply with
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Hunter appears to be up for an Oscar this year.
The Democrats know how to play the game.
> Hunter had received a subpoena to be interviewed by the Oversight Committee behind closed doors at 9:30 a.m. <
The article explains why Republicans want the interview to be behind closed doors - they are afraid of Democrat grandstanding.
No matter. Unless it’s a national security issue, all hearings should be open.
Ok......got it.
OOOOH!! Contempt of Congress!!!
Will he be sharing a cell with “wingman” Holder?
Hold him in contempt, what a loser.
Hunter knows that Biden’s corrupt DOJ will never prosecute him for contempt of Congress. Yet he ought to consider that the contempt citation does not go away. After the 2024 election he just might find himself in court and in prison.
Slowly I turn.
Step, by step.
Inch by inch.
Hunter begging for a public hearing.......brings back terrible memories
when Hillary got stupid then-chair Trey Gowdy to do that.
She made mincemeat out of hair-challenged Gowdy....he
quit Congress shortly after his drubbing at Hillary’s hands.
Exactly what you would expect a dirty little shirt from The Biden Crime Family to say and do.
A loving brother who loved his brother’s widow on the casket.
These Repubs are skating on thin ice. Hunter wants public testimony so that the networks can cheery pick his bullshit lies and blare them all over the news.
Make this bastard testify according to Congress’s terms. And don’t threaten with a contempt citation, DO IT!
Republicans, you screw this up with a compromise, you have lost all of my future votes.
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