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  • Jordan threatens Fani Willis with contempt over subpoena on federal grants

    03/14/2024 12:14:04 PM PDT · by kiryandil · 17 replies
    The Hill ^ | March 14, 2024 | Rebecca Beitsch
    House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) threatened possible contempt proceedings against Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) over a subpoena requesting information about her use of federal funds. Willis’s office has already sent information in response to the February subpoena, but the GOP leader complains she failed to turn over documents related to allegations from a now-terminated employee who flagged another former employee’s desire to misuse federal grant money. “We appreciate that you have produced a narrow set of documents in response to the subpoena, but your compliance with the subpoena to date is deficient,” Jordan wrote...
  • Judge Rules Former Trump Advisor Peter Navarro Will Remain In Prison While He Appeals Contempt Conviction

    02/08/2024 9:56:56 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    NTD News ^ | 02/08/2024 | Ryan Morgan
    A federal judge has rejected a request by former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro to be allowed to stay out of prison while he appeals a conviction for contempt of Congress.Mr. Navarro was charged with contempt of Congress after defying a pair of subpoenas from the now-disbanded House committee that investigated the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which was controlled at the time by Democrats. He was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress and sentenced last month to serve concurrent four-month prison terms.The former adviser argued throughout the subpoena process, at trial,...
  • The Immigration Crisis Shows Just How Much Contempt America’s Establishment Has For Democracy

    01/27/2024 11:44:52 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 26, 2024 | MARK HEMINGWAY
    America’s avoidable immigration crisis is now the No. 1 concern of voters, ahead of inflation and the economy. So why is no one in D.C. interested in holding Biden accountable?On June 17, 1953, more than a million East Germans walked off the job and launched a massive strike in protest of unfair production demands imposed by the communist government. The playwright Bertolt Brecht, who was living in East Berlin, responded by composing a poem about the Soviet-installed government’s approach to the problem, “Die Lösung” (which translates into “The Solution”):After the uprising of the 17th JuneThe Secretary of the Writers UnionHad...
  • Report: Georgia PROSECUTOR Nathan Wade Held in Contempt of Court Last Year!

    01/14/2024 9:40:37 PM PST · by AnthonySoprano · 11 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 1/14/2024 | Paul Bois
    Nathan Wade, the Georgia prosecutor leading the case against former President Donald Trump, was held in contempt of court last year for defying an order during his divorce. Around the same time that Wade had been preparing to indict the former president for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election in the Peach State, a judge in Cobb County, Georgia, ruled he had “willfully” failed to turn over documents about his income. Wade’s wife later said that the income included money he had made during his work on the Trump case. Revelations about him being held in contempt of court...
  • Special counsel Jack Smith argues Trump’s push to hold him in contempt in January 6 case is baseless

    01/06/2024 5:36:23 PM PST · by Steely Tom · 16 replies
    CNN ^ | 5 January 2024 | Hannah Rabinowitz
    Special counsel Jack Smith pushed back Friday against Donald Trump’s assertions that the prosecutor should be held in contempt for submitting filings while the federal election interference case is paused, calling accusations that he was intentionally violating a court order “false” and “baseless.”
  • Trump Lawyers Urge Contempt After Jack Smith Defied Court To Continue Election Meddling

    01/04/2024 8:08:57 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 01/04/2024 | Jordan Boyd
    Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a “powerhouse” motion on Thursday asking Washington D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to hold Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt of court for continuing his prosecution of the 2024 contender despite a court-ordered freeze on the case.“The prosecutors have cast these hallowed mandates aside to score cheap political points against President Trump on behalf of the Biden Campaign. In so doing, the prosecutors have repeatedly and willfully disregarded the Court’s explicit instructions. Such malignant conduct undermines the integrity of this proceeding and warrants severe sanction,” the filing states.Smith initially targeted Trump over his...
  • Eric Swalwell and the Politics of Contempt

    12/18/2023 8:06:12 AM PST · by george76 · 14 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | December 18, 2023 | Jonathan Turley
    Below is my column in The Hill on the bizarre scene last week in front of the Capitol when Rep. Eric Swalwell drove up with Hunter Biden and facilitated a flagrant act of contempt of Congress, a federal crime. Swalwell used his office and presumably his staff to assist in the defiance of a valid subpoena for Hunter to appear before a House committee. The House will now presumably hold Hunter in contempt and refer the matter for prosecution. The question is what to do with Eric Swalwell. Here is the column: This week, millions of people were glued to...
  • Hunter Biden’s Contempt of Congress Has Wider Consequences

    12/17/2023 8:56:42 AM PST · by george76 · 19 replies
    Messenger ^ | 12/14/23 | Jonathan Turley
    Congress is often a theater of the absurd, from Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) pulling a fire alarm before a major vote to.. none of that compares to what unfolded on Wednesday as Hunter Biden stood outside Congress and defied a subpoena as being "beyond the absurd." What happens next could be even more bizarre. Hunter was under a subpoena from the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability to appear for testimony. As I previously wrote, he had two choices: He could appear and either testify or invoke his right to remain silent. The only thing that he could not do...
  • Andy Biggs calls for contempt charges against Eric Swalwell for aiding Hunter Biden

    12/14/2023 4:39:53 PM PST · by Libloather · 31 replies
    Fox News ^ | 12/14/23 | Elizabeth Elkind
    EXCLUSIVE: A GOP lawmaker on the House Oversight Committee is calling for Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., to be punished by Congress for helping Hunter Biden on Wednesday morning. Swalwell had reserved a spot outside the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol where Hunter Biden later made a brief statement to the press before skipping a planned deposition by the House Oversight Committee. "Nobody gets to do that," Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told Fox News Digital of Hunter Biden's deliberate absence. "He was sent subpoenas. He was told to appear." "We're going to vote to hold him in contempt. We probably...
  • NEW: GOP Folds, Will Not Vote to Hold Hunter Biden in Contempt After He Ignored Subpoena

    12/13/2023 5:26:43 PM PST · by george76 · 55 replies
    Red State. ^ | December 13, 2023 | Bonchie
    Wednesday has been an eventful day on Capitol Hill, but not for the reasons Republicans would have hoped. Hunter Biden was supposed to show up for a subpoenaed deposition. Instead, he held a surprise press conference and then thumbed his nose at Congress. .. Rep. James Comer, who heads the investigating House Oversight Committee, promised immediate retribution, including a vote on holding the president's on in contempt of Congress. That would be consistent with how Democrats treated witnesses like Steve Bannon for ignoring congressional subpoenas. Unfortunately, the GOP caucus has caved, deciding to instead try to renegotiate an appearance by...
  • GOP Won’t Charge Hunter with Contempt of Congress Just Yet – Update

    12/13/2023 4:19:46 PM PST · by Dacula · 29 replies
    IndependentSentinel ^ | 12/13/2023 | M Dowling
    This article has been updated, and the headline has been changed. The title was “Rep. Comer will hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress,” but we had to change the title. Sadly, the GOP caved for now. They’ll try to get him in again and then might look at contempt.
  • Trump lashes out at ‘number one draft pick’ judge and special counsel Jack Smith as gag order deadline looms in Jan. 6 case

    08/07/2023 12:13:06 PM PDT · by thegagline · 38 replies
    The New York Daily News ^ | 08/07/2023 | Dave Goldiner
    Former President Donald Trump Monday lashed out at special counsel Jack Smith and U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan even as the judge prepares to consider a gag order in advance of his trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Deriding Chutkan as “the judge of (Smith’s) dreams,” Trump called for a new jurist to be appointed to oversee his historic trial even though his defense team has not yet made any such motion in court. “Deranged Jack Smith is going before his number one draft pick, the Judge of his “dreams” (WHO MUST BE RECUSED!), in an attempt...
  • McCarthy pledges contempt charge Thursday if FBI’s Wray dawdles further on Biden ‘bribe’ doc

    06/06/2023 6:36:45 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 50 replies
    NY Post ^ | 06/06/2023 | Charles Creitz
    House Speaker Kevin McCarthy firmly pledged on Monday that contempt-of-Congress charges will be filed Thursday against FBI Director Christopher Wray if he does not present the entire House Oversight Committee a document a whistleblower purportedly alleges that then-Vice President Biden engaged in “bribe[s]” with a foreign national. McCarthy, R-Calif., said Wray – who previously served as then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s attorney during the George Washington BridgeGate scandal – initially would not acknowledge the existence of the document. But, Wray later assented to allowing the chairman and ranking member on the panel – Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Jamie Raskin,...
  • Tony Blinken Could Become First Secretary of State Held in Contempt of Congress

    05/16/2023 10:19:35 AM PDT · by ConservativeInPA · 27 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 16, 2023 | Adam Kredo and Alana Goodman
    Tony Blinken could be the first-ever secretary of state to face criminal charges from Congress, after House Republicans said they plan to hold him in contempt for failing to produce documents about the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) said Sunday that he will "move forward to contempt proceedings" against Blinken. "This would be the first time a secretary of state has ever been held in contempt by Congress and it's criminal contempt, so I don't take it lightly," McCaul said on ABC’s This Week. McCaul’s comments come after Blinken missed a deadline last...
  • Judge blasts Trump’s ‘entirely inappropriate’ E. Jean Carroll rape case post

    04/26/2023 9:00:54 AM PDT · by thegagline · 76 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 04/26/2023 | Priscilla DeGregory
    A Manhattan federal judge blasted Donald Trump’s “entirely inappropriate” posts on Truth Social Wednesday as witness testimony began in E. Jean Carroll’s civil rape case against the former president. Trump, 76, took to his social media platform about an hour before the second day of trial began, claiming Carroll’s case was “a made up SCAM” and accusing her lawyers of being “political operatives.” He also called for the dress the former advice columnist wore the day of the alleged rape to be brought into the trial — something that Carroll sought to do early on in the case to compare...
  • U.S. Justice Dept asks judge to hold Trump team in contempt in documents probe -report

    12/08/2022 3:36:46 PM PST · by thegagline · 59 replies
    Reuters ^ | 12/08/2022 | Staff
    The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to hold Donald Trump's office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a subpoena to return all classified documents in the former president's possession, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell has not yet held a hearing or ruled on the request, the newspaper reported. One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team's repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been...
  • Joe Biden Mocks ‘Brave Right-Wing Americans’ Who Believe in the Second Amendment

    08/31/2022 2:36:28 PM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 79 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 8/30/2022 | Debra Heine
    Joe Biden made a bizarre and passive aggressive comment targeting “brave right-wing Americans” Tuesday, during an political rally in Pennsylvania touting his latest gun grab. The $37 billion Safer America Plan, unveiled in July, aims to fund police departments, and provides grants for cities to reduce violent crimes. The proposal also calls on Congress to pass additional gun restrictions. Rather than attack Republicans in Congress who might oppose the initiative, Biden mocked all conservative Americans who support the Second Amendment and believe that gun rights are necessary for self-defense and as a check against a tyrannical government. “And for those...
  • Bannon Prosecutors Warn That 330 Million Additional Americans With Contempt For Congress Still Roaming Free

    07/25/2022 12:16:05 PM PDT · by Twotone · 17 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | July 22, 2022 | Staff
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon has been found guilty of contempt of Congress, which is one of the evilest crimes one can commit against Congress. While prosecutors expressed relief at the verdict, they also warned that there are still 330 million Americans with extreme contempt for Congress who are still roaming around freely. "At last the monster Steve Bannon who dared to have contempt for the sacred Select Committee will face justice," said prosecutor Molly Gaston to reporters. "Sadly, he's not the only danger to our hallowed democracy. I have just received word that there are over...
  • Why Steve Bannon's Contempt of Congress Conviction Is a Nothingburger

    07/22/2022 8:19:54 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Townhall ^ | 07/22/2022 | Matt Vespa
    Liberal America is all about moral victories, I guess. Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt of Congress. So what? Who cares? The man got subpoenaed by a select committee that is a political circus. The January 6 Select Committee has been working hard to embarrass itself, trying to make this riot something that it's not. It was not Pearl Harbor. You won't indict Trump on anything. Also, no one is watching this kabuki theater. Its dissolution is coming. One of House Republicans' first acts upon regaining the majority in the chamber is getting rid of this clown show trial....
  • Judge lifts Trump’s contempt order after 2-month legal fight

    06/29/2022 4:16:21 PM PDT · by Libloather · 24 replies
    ABC 'News' ^ | 6/29/22 | Michael R. Sisak
    NEW YORK -- Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of court, a New York judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Arthur Engoron, who declared the former president in contempt on April 25 for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general, said he has now met conditions required to lift the sanction following a protracted legal battle. Trump last month paid $110,000 in fines he racked up as a result of the contempt finding. The money, paid directly to Attorney General Letitia James’ office, will continue to be held in an escrow account while Trump...