A couple of votes to go, but it's a lock

[CatWoman]

Fuck you Barr

[secondwind]

1. Yes, indeed!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. They have been waiting for a couple of members to return from other hearings to record their votes.

[TeamPooka]

3. Yeah, because we have the majority on the committee

[lpbk2713]

4. FUBar

[BumRushDaShow]

5. 24 - 16 approval of Contempt Citation.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Most excellent outcome!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Yup and to be expected!

[Bonx]

8. What happens as a result? Who's going to jail?

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Next step is a vote of the entire House

nt

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I posted this in my LBN thread which had a good summary of next steps

(and no, no one is going to jail... yet)

The House Judiciary vote on contempt of Congress and what it means for William Barr, explained
Democrats voted to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress. Here’s how that would work.

By Ella [e-mail] Updated May 8, 2019, 4:35pm EDT

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Here’s how this will work on a practical level: If the full House passes the contempt resolution, Pelosi will issue the citation for Barr to be held in contempt. She’ll pass that citation along to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia or the DOJ. Either the US attorney or the Department of Justice will likely say they don’t plan to move forward with prosecuting Barr.

That would be the end of the matter, unless Democrats pass a separate resolution to authorize going to court with Barr and the Trump administration over the Mueller report, and getting the courts to decide their subpoena request and contempt citation. Democrats are already talking about this as their next step, one they would likely take before using their own power of inherent contempt to fine or jail the attorney general. “We need to do the contempt parts before House counsel goes to litigate in court,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) told reporters. “The first option would be to win in court; we have a very strong case.”

Democrats are feeling confident because the Trump administration has moved to block or deny every single subpoena request of theirs, not just the one for the Mueller report. At least one former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration thinks Trump’s broad refusal could potentially hurt his legal argument.

“The thing that’s unusual is the blanket refusal,” John Yoo, the former deputy assistant US attorney general in the Bush DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, told the New York Times. “It would be extraordinary if the president actually were to try to stop all congressional testimony on subpoenaed issues. That would actually be unprecedented if it were a complete ban.”

https://www.vox.com/2019/5/8/18536874/contempt-of-congress-ag-william-barr

[JudyM]

11. Thanks for this info for those of us who need a quick feed on the issue!

[BumRushDaShow]

12. You are welcome!

I was curious myself because I know there are a series of check-list steps they go through in order to build the case to go either through DOJ and/or through the courts directly.