Note From Elie: Contempt of Congress Prosecutions are Necessary but Fraught
The Counsel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 1:07.9 | Last week, the House Committee on January 6th served its first batch of subpoenas on four key players from former President Donald Trump's inner circle. |
| 1:12.1 | Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon, and Cash Patel. |
| 1:16.5 | It's a smart list and a good starting point. |
| 1:19.7 | Each person apparently has firsthand knowledge of the planning leading up to January 6th |
| 1:24.3 | and Trump's actions on that day as the capital attack went down. |
| 1:29.1 | But the odds that any of these four will actually appear as commanded and testify |
| 1:34.2 | rests somewhere between Trump admits he lost the 2020 election and Jets win the Super Bowl. |
| 1:41.2 | So what does the committee do when, and not if, the Fab Four refused to comply? |
| 1:48.1 | Congress has three options. First, Congress used to exercise its own inherent enforcement authority, |
| 1:54.9 | but we can move past that one quickly. Congress has left this power dormant for nearly 100 years, |
| 2:00.5 | and the current sergeant at arms |
| 2:02.2 | simply is not going to start locking people up in some hidden Capitol Hill chamber. |
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