Posted on 02/20/2018 3:18:02 PM PST by EyesOfTX
Wow, THIS is heating up. Hopefully we don;t have any more school shootings to take these reports off the front page. This needs to be on the FRONT burner..and the fire turned up high.
This will NOT be on the front page until the arrests start. At that point, the leftist media will yell even louder that the arrests are to protect Trump and that the Obamaville crowd are all innocent.
SOME of the leftists actually believe that.
Some of these Judges need to stand up if our Judicial System is to be saved. It is unbelievable how much power and what a prosecutor can do and get away with. It should be known to all Americans by now by the number of people who have been convicted that are not guilty. As a retired Police Officer this scares Hell out of me.
Good summary and analysis. Thanks.
However, things have gotten so corrupt at DOJ that an increasing number of federal judges now routinely enter a Brady order when a case is filed so they can also enforce Brady with their contempt powers.
“Devin Nunes Lobs Another Bomb Into Obamaville”
Worthy of a BOOM!
The power of a congressional subpoena is not nearly as substantial as a court subpoena, and hey, being held in contempt of congress is nothing new for Obama toadies – just ask Eric Holder. If Attorney General Jeff Sessions will do his job, those court-issued subpoenas will be flying around soon enough, anyway.
but it could be fun if CONGRESS actually exercised the Authority they have
“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. One has to wonder how a previous Congress might have responded to Alberto Gonzales’s endless recitations of “I do not recall.”
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.
Weasel Mueller needs to indict himself, for being a Weasel instead of a normal human.
We demand a DNA test.
Don’t worry. Once IG Horowitz releases his report nothing short of global war will keep a lid on it all.
What people will start asking is “does America have what it takes to convict a former President?”
Because Obama is where the evidence will lead.
Just have Jeff Sessions begin court proceedings; they do need show or further implicate themselves, but rather plead the Fifth by virtue of absence. The evidence alone is enough to convict them of high crimes, major-meanors, aka treason.
4 or 5 patriots in the Repuki party plus Trump against a 4 trillion dollar corrupt stasi state, both parties, corrupt courts and fakestream media.
Place your bets.
What you said! and These are the weasels that try men’s souls.
This whole dossier/FISA Court grift has Obama’s Saul Alinsky stained finger prints all over it.
I hope the magic negro takes a torpedo right up the stern!
I thought Tucker was going to have Nunes on.... when he does, it’s usually right at the beginning. Did I miss it?
A memorable truth....
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