Posted on 05/29/2024 11:33:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is calling for a federal investigation into Justice Juan Merchan, arguing he deprived former President Donald Trump of First Amendment rights in the Manhattan business records trial.
Vance, who is reportedly in contention to be Trump’s running mate, penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, calling for a probe into Merchan due to potential violations of sections 241 and 242 of Title 18.
Judge Juan Merchan's unconstitutional gag order violates President Trump's First Amendment rights and is clearly illegal.
This morning, I sent a letter to the Attorney General requesting that he investigate Merchan's actions and consider prosecution for any criminal wrongdoing. pic.twitter.com/4SMbRc3Dgz
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) May 29, 2024
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He sent a letter to Merrick.
Good grief.
Why do you think Bragg didn’t prosecute the case himself? He knows it could go bad?
Hopefully when Trump wins he gets someone like Texas AG Paxton to be the the US AG and he prosecutes all these people. NY, GA, and the Federal prosecutors/judges who rigged the system against him.
All of this could have been stopped cold a long time ago if their weren’t so many downright corrupt Republican Members of CONgress.
“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 whole trial is done, they are about to put thr Former President is about to goto jail and this useless party is STILL talking about taking strong action. The Repukes in congress are ABSOLUTELY USELESS!
I agree also.
Not sure we are still at the stage where it matters.
Aĺl they had to do was say, you want money for Ukraine, drop all this BS against our nominee...and hold the line. Completely useless!
Now if the story said that JD stuffed that letter directly into Garland’s face at least we would know the POS actually received the letter.
Tell be it was a sternly written letter.
This guy is just as disingenuous as the rest of them. They are great at talking to steve Bannon and Hannity but that is about it.
If Merchan thinks he will skate through this pile of poo without getting some on him, he will find out that there are always consequences. He has put a huge microscope up his a** that someone will look at every nook and cranny.
Time to start treating our “just-us” system as the kangaroo courts they are.
If you are a conservative going to court for any reason, especially in a blue state/city, you are not gonna get a fair trial.
Only a beaten down populace would ever except the extreme Stalinist measures imposed on an innocent man in this kangaroo, so-called trial. We’ve gotten to the point that we will twiddle our collective thumbs and allow them to run roughshod over our bill of rights. We’re all a witness to the downfall of American law and order.
Yeah, I’m quite sick and tired of this.
Yeah, they’ll get right on that.
When the Republican Party dies today or tomorrow because they stood around and let Trump fight on his own against the fascist power in America, they will be as responsible as any for the descending iron curtain.
That's funny right there. Did he also send a letter to the fox guarding the henhouse?
We need someone in New York investigate this
JD...
how about pushing for an Article V convention NOW !!!
And....who exactly would run that federal investigation.
Republicans are poofs. This isn’t high school debate club.
This is Vance all over. Useless grandstanding and photo-ops.
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