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FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
8. Tell that to Susan McDougal.
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 10:42 PM
Oct 2021

I really hope you just forgot the sarcasm thingy.

I'm so fucking disgusted by republicons and tRump criminals still running free and working against us.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
5. From...
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 10:11 PM
Oct 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress

Following a contempt citation, the presiding officer of the chamber is instructed to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia according to the law it is the duty of the U.S. Attorney to refer the matter to a grand jury for action.

The criminal offense of contempt of Congress sets the penalty at not less than one month nor more than twelve months in jail and a fine of not more than $100,000 or less than $100.


For more:

Congress’s Contempt Power and the Enforcement of Congressional Subpoenas: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure
Congressional Research Service
May 12, 2017
(.pdf) https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL34097.pdf

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
13. He's replaced most of them and the one in DC is a Biden appointee...
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 08:51 PM
Oct 2021

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia is Channing D. Phillips

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/meet-us-attorney

Phillips was appointed by President Biden...

Channing Durward Phillips (born March 9, 1958) is an attorney who has served as the acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia since March 2021. He previously served in the position from October 2015 to September 2017, under President Barack Obama.

...

On March 3, 2021, Phillips once again became acting U.S. attorney after being appointed by President Joe Biden.

 

LiberatedUSA

(1,666 posts)
9. Has the date he needs to show come and gone yet?
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 10:47 PM
Oct 2021

If not, then what is the problem?

Who was it that got drunk as shit and made the rounds on the networks saying he would ignore one, yet ended up doing it when the time came? One of the Trump lackies.

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
15. The date for him to produce documents has passed but not the date to personally appear...
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 09:27 PM
Oct 2021

His lawyers are saying he won't appear or produce documents because of Trump's claim of executive privilege.

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