House panel holds Clinton IT aide in contempt. So what does this mean? Probably nothing other than more Kabuki Theater. They have the power to arrest but the GOP will never have the balls to use it.
In 1821, the Supreme Court upheld Congress’s right to hold people in contempt and imprison them. Without this power, the court ruled, Congress would “be exposed to every indignity and interruption, that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may mediate against it.” Later, in a 1927 case arising from the Teapot Dome scandal, the court upheld the Senate’s arrest of the brother of a former attorney general — carried out in Ohio by the deputy sergeant at arms — for ignoring a subpoena to testify. (Source)
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Ok but... seriously? yet Hillary is still campaigning?!
Kabuki Theater is cool... don't get the reference.
Till I see this clown being frog marched into the courtroom in chains, I'm thinking the useless morons in Congree will do nothing. Just like what they did when Holder was found in contempt.
The I.T. Guy will be going on vacation and his plane will go down...Any takers on a bet?
That's a sucker bet.
heck I've held the clintons in contempt for decades.
My first thought too.
BFD. Nothing will happen from these pathetic eunuchs, the panel is yet another waste of taxpayer money since they do nothing but huff and puff to the media to b.s. the public into thinking they are actually doing something.
Time to either bring charges or sit down and STFU.
Contempt is the hallmark of Team Clinton. Jail time would be appropriate, but you're right - the GOP is far too meek to impose it.