“What is the history of this congressional power.”
It’s statutory. 2USCA192. Passed into law in 1938.
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“Before a Congressional witness may be convicted of contempt, it must be established that the matter under investigation is a subject which Congress has constitutional power to legislate.”
But wasn’t this a matter between The executive branch and the SCOTUS? Wasn’t the president trying to reverse an Obama EO that removed a question that had been on the census for a hundred years or more?
The court didn’t rule the question was unconstitutional. It should have been a slam dunk.
Roberts is the guy who was out of order, not Trump or Barr or anyone else.