Hunter Biden Gives The People's Representatives The Finger TWICE While The House Has The Constitutional Power To Arrest Him And Hold Him Till He Complies
"Inherent Contempt Power." The original power of the Legislative Branch to help it conduct the people's business. And you wonder why Govt. doesn't function properly.
Instead of appearing at a closed-door session of the House to discuss the ever-expanding volumes of the exploits of the Biden crime family, he instead held a press conference on the Senate side of the Capital arranged by Representative Eric Swalwell, who for some reason has not yet been expelled or charged with espionage and treason for his dealings with the known Chinese spy Fang Fang.
Hunter Biden then crashed a House hearing and fled when Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was about to speak.
What were some of Greene’s points Hunter Biden didn't want to hear?
Apparently, he feels he is above the law. When the Trump children were subpoenaed by the Jan 6 Committee, they dutifully appeared for eight hours each! The January 6 Committee was a complete sham!
That "a member of this body”, (Swalwell), actually helped him evade his subpoena and break the law by arranging the press conference on the Senate side of the building!
That his father, Joe Biden, said in October 2021, “that individuals who defy subpoenas from the Jan. 6 House Select Subcommittee should be prosecuted!”
She quotes members on the Committee, Jamie Raskin for example, on record saying, “if you are subpoenaed, you show up, but you can’t blow off the proceeding.”
This committee has produced more evidence than any Democrat ever dreamed of or made up against President Trump and his family. This committee has produced evidence that Joe Biden has taken payments through his son Hunter Biden in all of their dozens of fake LLC’s. You can’t buy a Biden product, you can’t hire a Biden for a service, unless you are a foreign country, and you are asking and paying for political favors with political payouts. Representative -Marjorie Taylor Greene
Where did the Founders get the idea of three equal branches of government?
Charles-Louis de Secondat, aka, Baron de La Brède and de Montesquieu in his masterpiece, “Spirit of the Laws”, outlined the idea of “trias politica,” or separation of powers, the concept of a government divided into legislative, executive and judicial branches acting independently of each other. The Founders were intimately familiar with Montesquieu's work and used it as their model. They gave each branch specific enumerated powers not available to the other two that would accomplish this when creating the Constitution.
The functions and powers of the Legislature, the Senate and the House of the Representatives of "We the People", are in Article 1, Sections 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the Constitution. Specific powers to the House are in Section 7. (Of course, as an American, you should be familiar with this from your copy of the Constitution.)
The three types of contempt power available to Congress
Inherent Contempt Power was employed by Congress to directly enforce contempt rulings under its own constitutional authority until criminal and civil contempt statutes were passed. It is still available. The power of Congress to punish for contempt is related to the power of Congress to investigate. Its authority to investigate and obtain information, including but not limited to confidential information, is extremely broad. There is no express provision of the Constitution or specific statute authorizing the conduct of congressional oversight or investigations, yet, the Supreme Court has established in numerous cases that such power is essential to the legislative function and implied in the legislative powers of Congress. Under inherent contempt proceedings, the House or Senate has its Sergeant-At-Arms, or deputy, take a person into custody until they supply information requested or to appear for proceedings to be held in Congress.
The second type of contempt power is a citation of criminal contempt of Congress. This power comes from a statute passed by Congress in 1857 intended to supplement Congress’s Inherent Contempt Power when members who were being investigated would not cooperate. It has been codified under 2 U.S.C. § 192 and provides that any person who “willfully” fails to comply with a properly issued committee subpoena for testimony or documents is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a substantial fine and imprisonment for up to one year. The criminal contempt statute outlines the process to which the House or Senate may refer. Once a committee rules that an act of criminal contempt has occurred, the Speaker of the House or Senate President refers the matter to the appropriate U.S. attorney’s office, 2 U.S. Code § 194, “whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action.”
The flaw with this, is if you have an Attorney General like Merrit Garland, who despite having sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and enforce the law, is not only running interference for the Biden crime family, but outrageous in all of American history, actively prosecuting THE opponent to Biden in the Presidential election. Or anyone else who supports Trump or questions the Biden narrative.
Updating my post:
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a year-long prison term along with fines for former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for his criminal conviction related to avoiding a subpoena request from the Jan. 6 committee.
The third type of contempt power comes in the form of a civil lawsuit brought by the House or Senate, asking a court to enforce a subpoena. The Senate and its committees are authorized to bring such a lawsuit under a federal statute. However, there is no similar statute that applies in the House, but the federal district court in Washington, D.C. has decided that the House can nevertheless authorize its committees to bring a similar civil suit for enforcement of a subpoena. In either case, an executive branch member can contest the subpoena “based on a governmental privilege or objection the assertion of which has been authorized by the executive branch of the Federal Government.”
The upside?
The Supreme court has repeatedly affirmed Congress's power of inherent contempt in conducting its investigative business where a witness was actually arrested by the Seargent at Arms or deputy and held till they testified or provided information.
(Anderson v. Dunn, 19 U.S. 204 (1821)) The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the right of the House of Representatives to cite individuals for contempt but limited its power to imprison them beyond the session and ruled out corporal or capital punishments.
In the 1920's during the Tea Pot Dome Scandal, where similar to today, officials in the administration had committed crimes and would not cooperate with Congress.
The scandal involved ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered on the sly. In the end, the scandal would empower the Senate to conduct rigorous investigations into government corruption. It also marked the first time a U.S. cabinet official served jail time for a felony committed while in office.
At this time Congress passed permanent legislation granting itself subpoena power over tax records of any U.S. citizen, regardless of position.
Legislators’ offices were broken into. Evidence was destroyed. Curiously, the case broke open when “unpaid loans” turned out to be a $100,000 bribe.
This certainly sounds familiar. History repeating itself?
In McGrain v. Daugherty, a 1927 Supreme Court case about Mally S. Daugherty, the brother of former Attorney General Harry Daugherty:
A select Senate committee issued a subpoena for Daugherty to testify and to also surrender records from an Ohio bank. When Daugherty refused to comply after a second subpoena, the Senate passed a resolution issuing a warrant and authorizing a Senate deputy to take Daugherty into custody. Daugherty filed a habeas petition against his detention. A lower court ruled that the Senate exceeded its powers by detaining Daugherty, freeing him. However, the Supreme Court upheld his conviction, holding that under the Constitution, Congress has the power to compel witnesses and testimony “to obtain information in aid of the legislative function.”
Each house of Congress has power, through its own process, to compel a private individual to appear before it or one of its committees and give testimony needed to enable it efficiently to exercise a legislative function belonging to it under the Constitution. This has support in long practice of the houses separately, and in repeated Acts of Congress, all amounting to a practical construction of the Constitution. - Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter
If Congress reasserts it original authority to arrest uncooperative witnesses or subpoena information, of course all of this will end up in the courts with the Supreme Court hopefully backing it up.
With impeachment, Congress’s ultimate tool to rein in an increasingly rogue Executive Branch, it must again depend on itself to summon witnesses and gather the evidence to do its Constitutional duty.
Despite being told by the Supreme Court he lacks the Constitutional authority to forgive debt, Biden has just approved an additional $5 billion in debt cancelation for roughly 74,000 student loan borrowers! It is a bald faced bribe of public sector workers, like teachers and firefighters for votes in the upcoming election! This brings the total amount canceled under Biden to $136.6 billion for more than 3.7 million Americans, according to the Department of Education.
In addition to the other obvious impeachable offense of not securing the border as per Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Contact your Representatives and ORDER them to do their duty as per the Constitution!
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. - Thomas Jefferson
He is one mental case that needs locked up.
This would, of course, require balls on the part of Congress.