Posted on 11/20/2023 5:50:46 AM PST by davikkm
Representative Jim Banks accuses Nancy Pelosi of blocking him and Jim Jordan from investigating January 6th, alleging that the committee is part of a cover-up and a partisan agenda. Banks claims that Pelosi is afraid of a real investigation and doesn't want Americans to find out what truly happened on January 6th. He highlights specific questions related to Capitol police staffing, equipment, Pelosi's communication, National Guard assistance, and more, which he believes Pelosi is avoiding.
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Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Only three years late...
Meanwhile, in a nations capital jail.....
innocent’s remain after 3 years....
This regime must go.
Why isn’t there a J6 committee now that is subpoenaing Pelosi’s staff, Capitol Police leadership, Ray Epps, and Chris Wray along with dozens of others?
A mystery. Oh wait...we're talking about republicans.
Well Nancy is one big BLOCK
Gee Jim ya think?
Anyone who watched that committee should have seen it was ridiculous.
Those J6 folks that are in jail are nothing more then political prisoners. No one, not congressman, not senator or the American people are doing much of anything to help them..
I think the FIB is STILL arresting people just for being there..
Subpoena her.
Why isn’t there a J6 committee subpoenaing Pelosi, her staff, Capitol
Police leadership, Ray Epps, Chris Wray..........and dozens of others?
Contact
Committee On Oversight and Accountability
Rep James Comer, Chair
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5074
Fax: (202) 225-3974
Why isn’t there a J6 committee subpoenaing Pelosi, her staff, Capitol
Police leadership, Ray Epps, Chris Wray..........and dozens of others?
Contact
Committee On Oversight and Accountability
Rep James Comer, Chair
2157 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5074
Fax: (202) 225-3974
Stall, obfuscate, deny, deny deny.
Rinse.
Lather.
Repeat................................
“Oh wait...we’re talking about republicans.”
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They are always big on talk, small on action and results.
Gee, Ya THINK? Why do these evil Socialists have such long shelf lives? Ugh!
If the new speaker truly wants the answers to these questions surrounding Jan 6, He has the tools and authority to get them in short order.
“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.
They must take preservatives to extend their shelf life.......snx.
So it took Republicans 3 long years to finally raise this issue? Most of Congress needs to be replaced.
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