Gaetz pushes resolution to hold former NYC prosecutor in contempt over Trump charges

[LymphocyteLover]

Source: The Independent

Rep Matt Gaetz introduced a resolution to hold a former New York City prosecutor in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about charges against former president Donald Trump. The resolution requests that Mark Pomerantz, who worked in the New York County District Attorney’s office before resigning, be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena.

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Mr Bragg’s office later indicted Mr Trump and he was arrested in April. The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government subpoenaed Mr Pomerantz shortly thereafter. Mr Bragg authorised Congress to question Mr Pomerantz.

Mr Pomerantz later testified before the committee on 12 May but repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights.

“Through his lack of testimony, Mark Pomerantz has undoubtedly undermined the legitimacy of this witch hunt indictment against President Donald Trump,” Mr Gaetz said in a statement. “Mr Pomerantz pled the Fifth to nearly every question about his time in the Manhattan DA’s office, despite writing a tell-all book about his time there.”

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gaetz-nyc-prosecutor-contempt-trump-b2352514.html

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I know it's probably nonsense but does this make any sense?

Is this actually a contemptible charge-- using the 5th too often?

[RKP5637]

1. Gaetz, another piece of grotesque art. n/t

[vapor2]

4. Quoting Lauren Boebert, Gaetz is a crap sandwich.

Pomerantz owes congress nothing

[Lovie777]

2. Just stop it.........................

[emulatorloo]

3. Only contemptible one here is Matt Gaetz n/t

[Autumn]

5. Republicans made the rule that a congressional subpoena is optional. Fuck Gaetz

and the jungle gym he rode in on.

[onenote]

6. The Fifth Amendment can be invoked in response to questions posed in a Congressional hearing

That is well-settled and despite his posturing, Gaetz will get nowhere trying to enforce his contempt resolution (although he might try to compel the testimony by giving Pomerantz immunity).

In any event, if Congress passed a contempt resolution and referred to it to DOJ, it would disappear. Whether Gaetz is ballsy enough to try to revive the "inherent contempt" process (which a number of DUers were fans of when it was Repubs like Flynn invoking the Fifth), Pomerantz could still block it by going to court with a petition for habeas corpus.

As usual, Gaetz is bloviating for the Fox News audience.

[GreenWave]

7. They are like detention kids who got on student council.

[LymphocyteLover]

9. Haha-- true!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

13. Now wait one minute on that

I was in my secondary school's equivalent of student council, and this idiot would have been a reject from it. We didn't have laws, but we did have "Standards and Protocols," that we were expected to know and follow. We even had to know Robert's Rules to conduct our business. All of those rules & regs made it very clear what authority we had--and didn't have, and how we needed to behave.

We could also toss a member who was too disruptive or violated standards. A couple of years before I served, the student government did just that to a member who was so combative at every meeting he attended that nothing else could get done.

Not that we did all that much, really, but he made even that little effort impossible to manage.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

8. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE HYPOCRISY OF REPUBLICANS.

Gymshorts Jordan defied subpoenas as if they meant nothing. These maggots cannot now turn around and demand compliance of anyone.

Once again, Gaetz has allowed his battleship mouth to be overpowerd by his rowboat ass.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Talk about the weaponization of government??? FU Gaetz, Jordan et al

[intheflow]

11. If pleading the 5th too often is open to a contempt of court charge,

then TFG better be locked up, pronto!

[LymphocyteLover]

12. Haha, good point!