J6 Committee will move forward w/ proceeding to refer Bannon for criminal contempt

[PunkinPi]

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BREAKING: Chairman @BennieGThompson announces the Select Committee will move forward with proceedings to refer Mr. Bannon for criminal contempt. Read the full statement: https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/thompson-statement-cooperation-witnesses

Thompson Statement on Cooperation of Witnesses -> https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/thompson-statement-cooperation-witnesses

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Bolton, MS—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today made the following statement:

“Mr. Bannon has declined to cooperate with the Select Committee and is instead hiding behind the former President’s insufficient, blanket, and vague statements regarding privileges he has purported to invoke. We reject his position entirely. The Select Committee will not tolerate defiance of our subpoenas, so we must move forward with proceedings to refer Mr. Bannon for criminal contempt. I’ve notified the Select Committee that we will convene for a business meeting Tuesday evening to vote on adopting a contempt report.

“The Select Committee will use every tool at its disposal to get the information it seeks, and witnesses who try to stonewall the Select Committee will not succeed. All witnesses are required to provide the information they possess so the Committee can get to the facts. We’re grateful to the many individuals who are voluntarily participating and to witnesses who are complying with subpoenas, including several who met the deadline to begin producing materials to the Select Committee. We’re moving ahead quickly to get answers for the American people about what happened on January 6th and help secure the future of American democracy.”

[BlueJac]

1. Will it happen?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

15. Once the grand jury convened, about an hour.

[Scarlet Begalas]

30. Delaying?

I hope I'm wrong, but this feels like another delaying tactic to me, to avoid throwing him in jail.

[2Gingersnaps]

35. This is the due process they have to take to throw him in jail.

I'm good with that.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. What About Inherent Contempt?

Can someone explain the difference between what they're doing, and Inherent Contempt?

Is it simply that this way, it's the Department Of Justice that will hold them in Contempt, rather than Congress?

Is there any difference in the consequences, or the process, and what will come of it in the short to medium term?

[zebrapa]

13. YES

Criminal contempt via the justice department can get stonewalled in the courts for a year or two. Inherent contempt ...
Bannon is marched of to the DC capitol jail immediatly and stays there until he complies.

The select committee can do BOTH of those things and they should.

[SoCalDavidS]

24. That's What I Figured

So the route they're taking now, that all the optimists at DU seem to be overjoyed about, will go nowhere.

[Kingofalldems]

50. And you know that how?

[SoCalDavidS]

51. I Only Know What I've Heard Others Say

This is purely my opinion and speculation.

I've heard that if charges come out of the DOJ, they will be tied up in court for months, if not years. At the very least nothing will happen until well into 2022, if at all.

EVERYTHING involving TFG or his cronies seems to go nowhere. I simply don't see why this will be any different.

Trust me, I hope very much to be proven wrong.`

[True Blue American]

37. Schiff knows the law!

They are not dealing with Rudy now. Liz Cheney is determined, so is Kinzinger.

[Justice matters.]

25. Congress's Contempt Power and Enforcement of... PDF Report here:

Congress’s Contempt Power and the Enforcement of Congressional Subpoenas: Law, History, Practice, and Procedure

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL34097

IF Garland's (We The People's) DOJ refuses to convene the Grand Jury the committee should issue Inherent Contempt right away.

[zebrapa]

41. Immediately

IMHO .... they should cite inherent contempt today.

[Justice matters.]

42. Agreed.

Bannon to Appear Before Congress on 10/14. When he doesn't show, Congress Should Use Contempt x 2

Steve Bannon has indicated that he intends to defy the congressional subpoena directing him to appear for testimony on October 14. Members of Congress have said they "will" refer him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. That is an import step toward accountability for his crime of contempt of congress. BUT - Congress should also use its inherent power of contempt to compel Bannon's testimony in real time.

This video explores the novel concept of Congress using a legal "belt-and-suspenders" approach to enforcing its subpoenas: both referring Bannon for prosecution to punish him for his crime AND simultaneously using its inherent power of contempt to obtain the testimony the select committee needs to make progress in its investigation into the insurrection.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!

Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!

[mtngirl47]

4. X1000. n/t

[iscooterliberally]

5. As long as this disgusting person is perp-walked across our screens I'm all for it.

My condolences to anyone who has to touch him in the process though. Yuck!

[sdfernando]

6. you mean perp-stumble don't you

I'm sure bannon won't be sober when they pick him up.

[iscooterliberally]

27. I'm sure when he passes away and they cremate his remains, it will take weeks to put the fire out.

[ShazzieB]

34. Him and Ghouliani both!

[Bev54]

8. Yes but they are providing more time to Meadows and Patel and Scavino

I really do not want them to get sucked into this "pretend" cooperation that these assholes are so famous for. Just get them before the committee now or send them for referral as well.

[2Gingersnaps]

38. Patel in particular,

there is a reason TFG put him in the DoD after he fired Esper. Ever since he worked for Nunes he has been a waterboy bag o corruption.

[Champp]

9. Bring down the Hammers of Justice on all Republican traitors

[bucolic_frolic]

10. This is beginning get that Watergate era pace and feel to it

Things just march on, inexorably, slowly, in one direction. They move.

[drray23]

14. yes but back then we were not on the verge of a breakdown of democracy.

So even thought it took two years to get from investigation to Nixon resigning, it happened because members of Nixon's own party were willing to hold him accountable.

In the current climate I am afraid that if we don't proceed swiftly it will go nowhere especially if the gop gets back in power. They will squash that.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. The GQP has totally lost its political legitimacy

Legitimacy is undefinable in American politics. But voters know it when they feel it. En masse.

[malaise]

23. THIS

Wish I could rec

[drray23]

11. You would think they would have been prepared.

Now they have to meet next Tuesday just to approve the report to send to DOJ. Likely it will sit there for days before a prosecutor takes it and then more days to be in front of a judge...

Who knows what will happen between now and then. I wish they would go ahead and just use inherent contempt. I wonder why they decided it was better to do it via a referral to justice. Is it because they are not sure inherent contempt is feasible or what ?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

17. What choice does the committee have but to follow the legally mandated procedure?

No need for mine field filled inherent contempt when you can do criminal contempt.

[drray23]

19. sure but swiftly is better

Messaging is hugely important. Sending that referral this evening to DOJ instead of next Tuesday would have been a powerful statement.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

22. Criminal contempt of court moves swiftly. Think same will happen with criminal

contempt of court.

Just need to get to indictment stage for the dominos to fall.

[scipan]

49. What minefield? I'd really like to know.

[Kingofalldems]

12. Great news.

'Democrats are weak' posters not liking this at all.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

16. What a difference having a Biden appointed AG and US attorney make. No roadblocks.

Shed no tears for the very wrong.

[hamsterjill]

18. I will love it when it actually happens.

I haven’t seen Bannon in jail yet. I’m hopeful.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

20. Love it now. Love it later, but the later comes after the needed now.

[hamsterjill]

29. Hasn't happened yet.

I have learned to wait to be excited. When it happens, I’ll be the first one dancing in the streets.

[SoCalDavidS]

52. I've Looked Like A Fool Far Too Many Times

Telling people I know about how this or that is going to happen, only to see Nothing happen.

I honestly have little faith in our justice system, at least where "special" individuals are concerned.

It's going to take Inherent Contempt, no less, otherwise I see this being fought about in courts for months at the very least.

JMO.

[hamsterjill]

53. I agree.

IMO the Dems should have already had a plan in place. Bannon and company are daring them to do something.

If something IS done, I will happily admit that I was wrong and be happier than a clam. But I’ve seen this story unfold too many times over the last five years.

I’m tired of not seeing these criminals in jail.

[Botany]

26. He is one nasty piece of work

His bluster and braggadocio will not play well with the US Marshalls.

[johnnyfins]

33. Failed hollywood career...

...so he gets his fame by helping to destroy a country. He's not a "piece of work" he's a piece of shit.

[Septua]

28. No one told Trump...

..he can't exercise executive privilege as a use-to-be-president. Point of fact, he never knew the limits of Executive Privilege in the first place. For him it was another just Presidential Power Perk to get his way.

[budkin]

31. He thinks he has lifetime immunity from being pardoned

He's in for a treat.

[NCjack]

32. I don't expect desperate DC Jail lice to homestead in Mr. Bannon's crotch. After all,

they do have standards to uphold.

[orangecrush]

36. GOOD

LONG PAST TIME to stop playing with these criminals.

[True Blue American]

39. Now, Trump has been ordered to

Testify Monday in a Law Suit against him.

[Hulk]

40. Throw the vial seedy son of a bitch in prison

Treasonous piece of shit along behind bars for the rest of his ugly days

[Botany]

46. Georgetown & Harvard and then onto work for the Mercers with Cambridge Analyitca to rat ....

.... fuck our elections.

[Joinfortmill]

47. 👍

[Kingofalldems]

48. Kick this for Trump's secret pals now trying to move the goalposts.

[Cha]

54. Rt TY, Pi!