AG William Barr is Going to Jail for Contempt of Congress!

[HankD]

William Barr is in contempt. Congress should send him to jail - Joel Mathis

If Barr continues to refuse to testify, Pelosi will be faced with two choices: She can let it go, and accept that Trump will be impervious to any kind of accountability for the remainder of his presidency. Or the House she leads can impose consequences.

Sending Barr to jail for contempt would be a big consequence.

William Barr is in contempt. Congress should send him to jail.

Right. How to Win Friends and Influence People.

 

[Reynolds]

William Barr is in contempt. Congress should send him to jail - Joel Mathis

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William Barr is in contempt. Congress should send him to jail.

Right. How to Win Friends and Influence People.

They cant send him to jail.

 

[Adonia]

The Dims are clutching at straws and this is just some more antics on their part.

 

[HankD]

They cant send him to jail.

Great, can you document that?

 

[Benjamin]

Great, can you document that?

I couldn’t find the article I read, but basically it said:

1. We’re talking two different and separate branches of government and the congressional Sergeant of Arms would have to go up against the DOJ. (DOJ got guns too!)

2. The DOJ are not going to arrest their own, in fact, if they were even obliged to try they would simply be fired by their boss, Barr.

3. Trump may very well fire anyone who tries to arrest Barr.

4. Barr is 2 steps ahead of the Dems in the legal precedence and is carefully following the law. If it came down to it the SCOTUS would be brought into the matter in an expedited fashion and Barr would win.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

First, the House would have to use the US Capitol Police. Where they would hold him I don't know. DC probably won't let them use its faciilities.

 

[HankD]

I couldn’t find the article I read, but basically it said:

1. We’re talking two different and separate branches of government and the congressional Sergeant of Arms would have to go up against the DOJ. (DOJ got guns too!)

2. The DOJ are not going to arrest their own, in fact, if they were even obliged to try they would simply be fired by their boss, Barr.

3. Trump may very well fire anyone who tries to arrest Barr.

4. Barr is 2 steps ahead of the Dems in the legal precedence and is carefully following the law. If it came down to it the SCOTUS would be brought into the matter in an expedited fashion and Barr would win.

Hmm, this is going to be entertainment as well as outrage.

Better than COPS... Bad AG, Bad AG, watcha gonna do... when they come for you...

 

[Reynolds]

Great, can you document that?

Who do they have to use to arrest him? To house him? The justice Department, which is under the executive branch. Justice Dept attorneys and the White House attorneys are the ones who told him he didn't have to appear.

 

[Reynolds]

First, the House would have to use the US Capitol Police. Where they would hold him I don't know. DC probably won't let them use its faciilities.

I don't think they can use the Capital police. C.P. are under executive branch.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Nope, looked it up on Wiki. The Capitol Police are under the legislative. They grew out of a watchman Congress hired back in the day.

I don't think they can use the Capital police. C.P. are under executive branch.

 

[HankD]

Hmm, better than a game of chess.

So will there be the cuffs and the perp walk out of Barr's house at 0400 hours?

 

[Revmitchell]

They are not going to arrest him this is all for show.

 

[church mouse guy]

Obama's AG Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress and nothing happened to him.

If the Congress gets their hands on the unredacted report, then one of the Dems will release it to the public and American methods and sources as well as foreign methods and sources will be revealed. The Brits were working with the Dems and who knows what else? Congress would not protect American secrets. Imagine how quickly someone like Omar or even Andre Carson from Indianapolis would betray the secrets in the redactions to the world.

 

[Reynolds]

Nope, looked it up on Wiki. The Capitol Police are under the legislative. They grew out of a watchman Congress hired back in the day.

Arrest powers lie in the executive branch. That is a basic Constitutional. Concept. Trey Gowdy explained in detail a couple years ago why the house had no legal ability to enforce a contempt order outside use of the justice dept.
Think about what executice means. It's legal definition is the same as its regular definition.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Reynolds, I probably should have written, "The House would try to use the Capitol Police to arrest the AG." And the CP tell them to pound sand. However, from wiki:

The USCP is the only full service federal law enforcement agency responsible to the legislative branch of the U.S. government.
The United States Capitol Police has the primary responsibility for protecting life and property; preventing, detecting, and investigating criminal acts; and enforcing traffic regulations throughout a large complex of congressional buildings, parks, and thoroughfares. The Capitol Police has exclusive jurisdiction within all buildings and grounds of the United States Capitol complex as well as the Library of Congress. It also has concurrent jurisdiction with other law enforcement agencies, including the United States Park Police and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, in an area of approximately 200 blocks around the complex.​

IOW, it's not under the DoJ like the FBI or the courts like the Marshalls.

 

[carpro]

Barr is going nowhere, least of all, to jail.

 

[HankD]

Barr is going nowhere, least of all, to jail.

WHOA! wait a minute - according to Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Barr going to jail is a DONE DEAL!!

LOL now the URL documentation is "NO LONGER AVAILABLE"

Oh Well.

 

[rlvaughn]

A journey down a previous vote to hold a US Attorney General in contempt, according to The Guardian.

Attorney general first sitting cabinet member to be held in contempt as 17 Democrats join Republicans to pass resolution.

Thursday's vote was of symbolic value, pointing to the almost total collapse of trust between the two main parties in Congress.

Holder delivered an angry statement about 20 minutes after the contempt vote, accusing the Republican leadership of engaging in "election-year politics and gamesmanship".

In legal terms the vote is of doubtful practical significance as the contempt issue will now be handed to the US attorney for the District of Columbia – a prosecutor who, as an official within Holder's department of justice, is unlikely to proceed with a case against his own employer.

The dramatic standoff between the Obama administration and the Republican-controlled House has been provoked by demands that the department of justice hands over thousands of official documents.

From Eric Holder held in contempt of Congress after historic vote

It's like déjà vu all over again.

 

[church mouse guy]

Why do the Dems want to release US secrets to the world? I understand the Brits were working for the Clintons on the dossier so do we want all those details in public? The secrets are Dem secrets.

 

[Revmitchell]

Why do the Dems want to release US secrets to the world? I understand the Brits were working for the Clintons on the dossier so do we want all those details in public? The secrets are Dem secrets.

Trump is getting ready to declassify a whole bunch of docs.