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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Sat Nov 30, 2019, 03:37 PM Nov 2019

Senate trial: Can people be jailed for refusing to testify?

What will happen if they refuse to testify? If they are jailed how long can they be held? Until the trial is over? Longer?

If there are no consequences for not testifying, why would they?

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Senate trial: Can people be jailed for refusing to testify? (Original Post) shockey80 Nov 2019 OP

They probably won't be jailed. MineralMan Nov 2019 #1

susan mcdougal sure was. mopinko Nov 2019 #2

She was jailed for contempt of court by a judge for refusing to testify before a grand jury StarfishSaver Nov 2019 #3

Who would order her jailed for refusing to testify in a Senate trial? StarfishSaver Nov 2019 #4

roberts? mopinko Nov 2019 #5

Wouldn't the justice department enforce any obstruction....so, consequences unlikely. Karadeniz Nov 2019 #6

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

1. They probably won't be jailed.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2019, 03:39 PM

Nov 2019

As long as the Trump administration thinks the Senate won't convict and remove Trump, they'll all just thumb their noses at the House of Representatives. Count on it.