Breaking: Stone pleading the 5th- will not hand over documents

[malaise]

to the Senate Judiciary Committee or cooperate with said Committee..

[a kennedy]

1. Silly me, what does this actually mean then??? he will be going to jail??

[manor321]

2. Surprise! Surprise! - Gomer Pyle

[pecosbob]

3. Don't think Senate Dems can take any punitive action being a minority

but the House can definitely revisit this in January. Many of the Senate GOP are complicit, so they will take no action.

[dem4decades]

4. Mueller will want the same info. Hope Stone likes jail.

[Jarqui]

5. Trump on taking the 5th Amendment

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

6. In other words...

I can’t talk about it cuz I’ll probably implicate myself for a crime that I probably committed and I’m guilty as shit but I don’t want you to find out.

[gratuitous]

7. Didn't Trump say something about people who take the Fifth?

Why yes, yes he did:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/donald-trump-fifth-amendment-supreme-court/index.html

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment," Trump said as a candidate in 2016, complaining about aides to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who faced inquires over the use of a private email service when she was secretary of state. "The mob takes the Fifth," Trump declared.

[malaise]

9. Thread winner

[LiberalFighter]

8. Too bad he doesn't walk into a train going 100 mph.

[onenote]

10. Here's what I think he can and can't do

I don't think he can cite the Fifth Amendment as the basis for refusing to appear when subpoenaed -- if he wants to invoke the Fifth he has to do it question by question. So, in theory, the Committee could insist on his complying with a subpoena to appear and give testimony and charge him with contempt if refuses to appear.

Whether he can use the Fifth Amendment as a shield against producing documents is a more complicated question. Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes the answer is no.

And he could be offered immunity from prosecution by the committee and then forced to testify (again with contempt as the hammer).

[malaise]

11. The House Committee will demand that in the new year

Trust me

[Hassler]

12. That's all right. They already have him for lying.

[beachbum bob]

13. Stone doesn't get that privilege in front of a grand jury....

Mueller time is quickly approaching.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I thought only the mob takes the 5th?

and, Democrats should force Stone to come before them and physically invoke the 5th on live TV

[blueinredohio]

15. Lock him up!!