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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn idea on how to get rethugs to comply with subpoenas
1. Request that the witness / person appear in front of the committee.
2. If that person refuses or does not respond, send out the subpoena. Notify the potential witness that if he or she does not show up, the committee will show and enter into the Congressional record a video of everything that the person has said on camera in chronological order, complete with date and time stamp of the utterance.
For example, if Kevin McCarthy refuses to answer questions, there are hours worth of his responses to media questions starting on January 6 to the present day. Highlight all those instances where his story has changed and note when he went to Florida to visit That Fucking Goon. If lil Kevvie wants to explain his side of whatever his story of the day is, he will just have to show up and answer questions.
3. Stick to that plan.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Ocelot II
(115,869 posts)and drag them into the hearing room in a net.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)at least that one thing was learned from impeachment. sigh...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Walleye
(31,062 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)Bill,
Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)Going straight to subpoenas.
They learned TFGs m. o. Of ignoring them.
So then the committee can site for contempt
Ask a federal prosecutor to bring criminal charges
I dont think they are going to mess around but still it will be a process.
Go get em!!!
RockRaven
(15,012 posts)resolution immediately. The subpoena-defier made their choice, they chose a federal criminal charge, trial, and conviction. Make it happen for them.
brooklynite
(94,745 posts)The only way to avoid arrest and compulsion to appear is to leave the Capitol and the District, in which case he won't do a good job as Minority Leader.