Contempt of Congress

We should probably get the obligatory bad jokes out of the way right up front. As in: “Contempt of Congress: It’s not just a crime, it’s a national attitude!” Or, “Contempt of Congress? Who ISN’T guilty of that?”
Contempt of Congress - The Statute and the Inherent Contempt Power

Will Congress hold Barr in contempt?

Apparently being in Contempt of Congress amounts to very little.

I'm in contempt of our whole danged Govemant.

Nakosis said:

We should probably get the obligatory bad jokes out of the way right up front. As in: “Contempt of Congress: It’s not just a crime, it’s a national attitude!” Or, “Contempt of Congress? Who ISN’T guilty of that?”
Contempt of Congress - The Statute and the Inherent Contempt Power

Will Congress hold Barr in contempt?

Apparently being in Contempt of Congress amounts to very little.

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They won't go after Barr because the whole thing is a political stunt to begin with.

If they went after Barr, hell would come down upon them, and they know it.

So they'll be all dramatic and make a scene and bark bark bark, but never bite.

Contempt of Congress is the act of obstructing the work of the United States Congress or one of its committees.

In Anderson v. Dunn (1821),[1] the Supreme Court of the United States held that Congress' power to hold someone in contempt was essential to ensure that Congress was "...

Congressional rules empower all its standing committees with the authority to compel witnesses to produce testimony and documents for subjects under its jurisdiction. Committee rules may provide for the full committee to issue a subpoena, or permit subcommittees or the chairman (acting alone or with the ranking member) to issue subpoenas.

As announced in Wilkinson v. United States,[7] a Congressional committee must meet three requirements for its subpoenas to be "legally sufficient." First, the committee's investigation of the broad subject area must be authorized by its chamber; second, the investigation must pursue "a valid legislative purpose" but does not need to involve legislation and does not need to specify the ultimate intent of Congress; and third, the specific inquiries must be pertinent to the subject matter area that has been authorized for investigation.

The Court held in Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund[8] that Congressional subpoenas are within the scope of the Speech and Debate clause which provides "an absolute bar to judicial interference" once it is determined that Members are acting within the "legitimate legislative sphere" with such compulsory process.

Following the refusal of a witness to produce documents or to testify, the Committee is entitled to report a resolution of contempt to its parent chamber. A Committee may also cite a person for contempt but not immediately report the resolution to the floor. In the case of subcommittees, they report the resolution of contempt to the full Committee, which then has the option of rejecting it, accepting it but not reporting it to the floor, or accepting it and reporting it to the floor of the chamber for action. On the floor of the House or the Senate, the reported resolution is considered privileged and, if the resolution of contempt is passed, the chamber has several options to enforce its mandate.

After a one-week trial on the Senate floor (presided over by Vice President John Nance Garner, in his capacity as Senate President), William P. MacCracken, Jr., a lawyer and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics who was charged with allowing clients to remove or rip up subpoenaed documents, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment.[11]
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MacCracken filed a petition of habeas corpus in federal courts to overturn his arrest, but after litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress had acted constitutionally, and denied the petition in the case Jurney v. MacCracken.[12][13]
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After watching a little of congressional hearings,
I deem them utterly useless....except for politicians
posturing on a national stage. It isn't at all about
getting information.

Revoltingest said:

After watching a little of congressional hearings,
I deem them utterly useless....except for politicians
posturing on a national stage. It isn't at all about
getting information.

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Here, here! Useless you say? Sadly, I agree. Sadly because I would like to be able to trust someone , anyone that holds the public trust. ~

Nakosis said:

We should probably get the obligatory bad jokes out of the way right up front. As in: “Contempt of Congress: It’s not just a crime, it’s a national attitude!” Or, “Contempt of Congress? Who ISN’T guilty of that?”
Contempt of Congress - The Statute and the Inherent Contempt Power

Will Congress hold Barr in contempt?

Apparently being in Contempt of Congress amounts to very little.

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They can't hold Barr in contempt.

All appearances by Barr have been voluntary. The Mueller investigation is closed and Congress, who have 19 pages from the hundreds in the Mueller report, are very clear as to the particulars of Mueller's focus.
Barr can't be subpoenaed. He can't be held in contempt.

Though contempt for the Liberal Congress and House is a long running fact for anyone who knows what a witch hunt this whole fiasco was from the start.
Hillary lost! Deal with it.

FragrantGrace said:

They can't hold Barr in contempt.

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Yes they can.

FragrantGrace said:

Barr can't be subpoenaed. He can't be held in contempt.

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Yes to both

FragrantGrace said:

Though contempt for the Liberal Congress and House is a long running fact.

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Finally we have something we both can agree on

FragrantGrace said:

for anyone who knows what a witch hunt this whole fiasco was from the start.

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Oh wise one, "witch hunt" when out with burning someone at the stake. But should this practice come back, trump will fry like a chicken on the skewer but taste like a rotting rat.
first.

FragrantGrace said:

Hillary lost! Deal with it.

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You people need to find a new doll to stick your pins in. Hillary is not running for office and has been living a private life for over three years. Again, you people need to find a new doll to stick your pins in.
These folks sound like a repeating old record player. Gets some new stuff !!!!
BTW: i think Trump is in LOVE/admires Hillary
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james dixon said:

Yes they can.

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They can, but they won't. They don't have the cajones.

james dixon said:

Oh wise one, "witch hunt" when out with burning someone at the stake. But should this practice come back, trump will fry like a chicken on the skewer but taste like a rotting rat.

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So are you admitting it is a witch hunt or are you inciting violence upon Trump?

james dixon said:

You people need to find a new doll to stick your pins in.

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That's rich coming from an anti-trumpette.

james dixon said:

Yes they can.

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Wait and see.



Yes to both[/quote] No. You should read the link I shared. Meanwhile when the threat of subpoena doesn't happen, remembering Barr is an attorney, what will you say then?

Finally we have something we both can agree on

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OK

Oh wise one, "witch hunt" when out with burning someone at the stake. But should this practice come back, trump will fry like a chicken on the skewer but taste like a rotting rat.
first.

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Unlike you I know something about the history of witch hunts. The phrase is appropriate.
Trump will never be impeached. If you think him worthy detail what would constitute grounds for impeachment.

You people need to find a new doll to stick your pins in. Hillary is not running for office and has been living a private life for over three years. Again, you people need to find a new doll to stick your pins in.
These folks sound like a repeating old record player. Gets some new stuff !!!!
BTW: i think Trump is in LOVE/admires Hillary
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You got it backward. Hillary big crushed on Trump when he was younger. Remember, Trump was a Democrat before he ran for office as a Republican. He was good friends with the Clinton family for years.
The, "Make America Great Again", was Bill Clintons line in two different campaigns. Trump grabbed it up to rub it in. So when the Liberal hacks attack people wearing MAGA hats they're even bigger fools than the violent fools they appear to be. It was a Liberal political clarion call before Trump ever thought to run for office.
Further, the perjury that went into getting the FISA court approval to tap the Trump campaigns communications was bought by HRC.
Obama stomped for HRC during her campaign. He said she was his Protégé who would carry on his legacy. God help us! And Obama also said HRC was the most fit person to enter the office of President since (the slave owner) Thomas Jefferson.
Remember the illegal server in the basement bathroom of the Clinton house? Who do you think ordered her to put that there? Her boss! The Secretary of State serves at the pleasure of the President.
Both HRC and BHO are trained in the law. Attorneys. They knew what they were doing was illegal. HRC has yet to be prosecuted.
Russia collusion? Oh yeah, there is that. Only it is in evidence as that of HRC and BHO! NOT DJT.

This whole stinking soft coupe is backed by HRC and her cronies on the Hill. Because they all banked on her, literally in some ca$es winning the office. No one on the Hill thought Trump would win. But he did. Now the Democrats are trying to work around the Constitution so as to torpedo Trump's chances of re-election in 2020.
They're working on state by state legislation that would take state electoral votes and add them to the popular vote. Why? Because allegedly HRC won the popular vote in 2016. The legislators behind this national bill effort moving state to state are Democrat. They're thinking in the 2020 election the popular vote Democrat candidate can take over.
Prayerfully steps will be taken before the election to insure illegal activity at the level of the states departments of elections does not occur again as it did during the 2018 mid-term. The Democrats didn't actually get the majority in the House legally. They stole it so they could have majority and interfere with Trump's presidency at that level for the remaining 2 years of his first term.
Research that if you want. 10% of states discovered illegal voter tampering at the department of elections level. At least one state had a re-do. With that number of states corrupted at that level the whole mid-term election should have been done over. And the culprits jailed.
But in Florida one guilty party not only is free, but resigned after being found out and went on home. Now she garners her pension, shall garner her SS when she's old enough. And has full benefits.
She should be in a federal prison.

So if you think we people need another doll to stick pins in, you need to take a square look at the voodoo that HRC, Soros, and others , like those who perjured themselves to get the illegal FISA court to act against Trump. They're demonic!
And if the Liberals take majority in the Congress, House and Senate, and the White house in 2020 this country is in real trouble.

See, burn outs like Burned Bernie Sanders and the wino genius AOC call themselves a Democratic Socialist. That's nonsense. They're Socialists!
Bernie honeymooned in Russia. And vacationed in Cuba.
And you've heard about his recent excursion into the wild side I'm sure. Naked Bernie. What was he thinking? Oh, that's right, that he's fit to run for highest office again. And he is.

Here's another fun fact.
The Democrat party has always been an enemy of liberty and freedom.
That's why it is a real shame when people of color follow the *** to the polls. Especially blacks. They have no idea of history. Democrats enslaved black people as soon as possible after the Emancipation Proclamation was inked. And they've been at it ever since.

Barr is squeaky clean and that irritates the crap out of most of the left's progressive liberal goons that masquerade as congress people and other PC brainwashed public servants. I am beginning to believe the Progressive lefts politicians have ate all the 'Moderate Democrats'. It's glaringly obvious that Trump, Barr and most of the others accused by the Progressive Lefts Liberal (PiLLs my abbr.)* agents are innocent. The attempts of the PiLL's to investigate, discredit, impeach, insult, etc. are just an desperate effort control damage of the Muller report findings and the fact it vindicates Trump. Any sane person would be happy, highly relieved that our ELECTED president did not collaborate with the Russians! But nooooo! The PiLL's do not live in the same reality that most of the world does. I believe they may exhibit behavior that indicate they are insane, if not insane they have a serious collective personality disorder. The only big question I have is when and if legal action will be forthcoming against the PiLL's and their minions. The list of wrong doings and criminal behaviors is a long one. I for one want to see PiLLs heads roll en masse' and soon, hopefully some of them will roll head and all into a long term Super Max.

* I got tired of typing the Progressive Lefts Liberal so I abbreviated it. But I still cant think of what the I represents! So I lower cased it....

FG that is so true! Its bad enough that Blacks and other people of color vote for those who do them harm and trend socialist, but the millennial's also say socialism as a better way to Govern. Conservatives even though winning major battles like electing Trump, the Supreme Court up holding the 2nd amendment, etc, are going to lose the war. The PiLLs* core beliefs go way back to the middle to late 1960's. The were created in the Vietnam anti war movement and the watts riots etc. Are you old enough to remember Students for a Democratic Society? What about the Weather Underground? The original Black Panthers? So now the domestic terrorists of the 1960's are today's college professors and the radical progressive democrats in our political system. They are indoctrinating the millennials into socialism and its working. The moderate democrats and the republicans should work together to defeat these new political terrorists if its not already too late.

The Links to Socialists & Communists In The Democratic Party;

Aug 15, 2018 · The core of the early New Left was formed by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical organization that aspired to overthrow America's democratic institutions, remake its government in a Marxist image, and help America's enemies emerge victorious on …

The Links to Socialists & Communists In The Democratic Party

MrMrdevincamus said:

The Links to Socialists & Communists In The Democratic Party;

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Please be careful in what you say. This is not a typical election. There are real people among us who would love to destroy our democracy, and some have been recruited to use this and other web sites to create mistrust and resentment.

If you truly favor Republicans over Democrats, then please use honest reasons for your views. Do NOT become a puppet on a string.

Just some friendly advice from one friend to another

Unless of course, you are one of these moles
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james dixon said:

Please be careful in what you say. This is not a typical election. There are real people among us who would love to destroy our democracy, and some have been recruited to use this and other web sites to create mistrust and resentment.

If you truly favor Republicans over Democrats, then please use honest reasons for your views. Do NOT become a puppet on a string.

Just some friendly advice from one friend to another

Unless of course, you are one of these moles
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I've seen the political arena gradually become more bizarre over the years. It is Schizophrenic, being driven unseen voices. This could not have happened before the age of the Internet and the iphone. You have no idea who wrote a statement on Facebook. Is it an enemy or a fellow citizen?

Ellen Brown said:

Is it an enemy or a fellow citizen?

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I believe one said--Just read what you read and take it with a grain of salt
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MrMrdevincamus said:

The Links to Socialists & Communists In The Democratic Party;

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I know a few Russians who would agree

These are historic times with the internet the world is connected in real time.

There are folks who just want to talk and learn

There are folks with an agenda out there

There are moles out there & here; with an agenda

Just remember, nothing they say can hurt you

Just stay within the rules and enjoy the show -

james dixon said:

Please be careful in what you say. This is not a typical election. There are real people among us who would love to destroy our democracy, and some have been recruited to use this and other web sites to create mistrust and resentment.

If you truly favor Republicans over Democrats, then please use honest reasons for your views. Do NOT become a puppet on a string.

Just some friendly advice from one friend to another

Unless of course, you are one of these moles
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With respect due, have you been asleep for the last ten years? First, if I wanted to be a puppet I would jump on the PC 'I want to be popular too' Democratic/Marxist bandwagon like RIGHT NOW! No I have been trending towards the highly non-popular conservative way (usually Republican) for a long time! I vote on issues not the party. That is because I enjoy freedom and individuality etc, so I do not support 95% of anything socialist!!!! How can you not see that the democratic party is in the process of a radical transformation by Marxist socialists. How did it happen? Google Democratic Socialists of America to begin. The PAC supported the Taco waitress turned politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and was the reason she was elected. She would have been unelectable only a few years ago. Ocasio-Cortez, who is a self named socialist, defeated in a landslide victory Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley, who was a 10-term congressman that many said would be the next speaker of the house. The Justice Democrats PAC is not that unusual except that it partnered with 'Our Revolution' which is the largest Marxist front in America. Our Revolution is really three Marxist organizations : the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party USA, and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Hmmm' sounds a bit socialist eh Dixon? Their goal is to turn the Democratic Party to the Marxist communist party, and they will do it from within. Seven other candidates have been elected by the support of these Groups. The above is a good start to vindicate my claims. I worry not about moles as you call them, I worry about those that have an agenda that you seem to be supporting. That agenda is to silence those that have a unpopular views (conservative?) or different ideas/views than themselves. Anyone can see that too is happing in an malignant fashion on the many college campuses who BAN THE FREE SPEECH! Oh most telling is the banned speech is of a conservative friendly nature. So my friend (or not) wake up.

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james dixon said:

I know a few Russians who would agree

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AH HAH! You know a few Russians ? You must be investigated immediate! Collusions with the Russians right here at RF!!! All levity aside, if you want real haters of democracy you would find them on Campus or in the PAC's I mentioned.

These are historic times with the internet the world is connected in real time.

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And?

There are folks who just want to talk and learn

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And there are folks that want to AND DO shut down talk, unless its approved speech. These minions do not ban speech of a socialist friendly nature but those who have dangerous words and ideas like the conservatives or the Christians, or those that deny man caused climate change is real. Their speech is not approved so they have no right to free speech!

There are folks with an agenda out there

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Yes they are called Marxist socialist Democrats. And they are among us.

There are moles out there & here; with an agenda

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See above

Just remember, nothing they say can hurt you

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That depends, the socialists and socialist friendly campuses make sure only approved speech is spoken.

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I didn't see a moderator hat are you that? If not I suggest you abide by your own advice.