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Once the House floor votes it out, then it triggers a number of things.

Our House counsel can go litigate in court.

Court.

But we also have inherent content powers that courts have upheld for us to take immediate

action irrespective of the courts.

We can start imposing fines on that person.

In the past, they had a house jail.

I don't think we're going to go that far, but courts have upheld that as well.

Here's former House Judiciary Committee Council Member Julian Epstein in an NPR interview,

explaining three scenarios that could happen if Barr is held in contempt of Congress.

Congress could refer it to the U.S. attorney for criminal prosecution of contempt.

They could use another process called inherent contempt where they use a sergeant of arms

to literally go out and arrest the attorney general and put him in the house jail. And the more

likely option is that the house would direct counsel to go to court and try to enforce the subpoena

civilly. Democrats are also in a race against the 2020

clock. And as Epstein noted in that same interview, the rules of subpoenas are tipped in the

executive's favor. So Trump could possibly delay this motion until it's no longer relevant.

Exactly. So we have this situation where obviously the president is instructing people to be, to become contemptuous of subpoenas. He's telling them not to testify. He's told Don McGahn not to testify. He's told Annie Donaldson not to testify. He's told Wholepix not to testify. You have all these, these court cases now,

Congress trying to do civil enforcement of subpoenas or even criminal enforcement of subpoenas.

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