I'm so tired of being disappointed. I just want this nightmare to be over!

I would die happy!

Why not Barr?

And I remember Watergate. Listened to every minute of it on TV or on my battery powered, pink portable radio. No earphones back then that plugged into the radio. Held it to my ear at the pool!

He is a wonderful Congressperson.

arresting Trump's people is another matter altogether.

Is he ready to follow Trump's orders, instead of giving up the tax forms to Congress? They have probably made the choice to hang together, rather than hang separately?

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or if you are a non Democrat who loves to bash Democrats

should be in prison already?

- Criminal referral to the DOJ

- Civil referral to a federal court (which then could result in contempt of the court itself if the court agrees and the defendant doesn't cooperate)

- Direct imprisonment by the House OR Senate (this hasn't been used since 1935, but is an option)

I am under the impression that if a house of Congress votes to charge someone with Contempt, this is sent to the DOJ to enforce it. Presumably the FBI now serves a warrant. I think that the Sergeant at Arms does not have this authority/capability.

The problem looms: Barr can simply ignore a contempt citation, take no action to enforce it. What could the House do about it?

One kind punishes for disobedience of a court order/law and holds a set time;

The other is used to compel compliance of a court order/law.

Remember Susan McDougal? She sat in jail because she continued to defy a Federal judge who had ordered her to answer prosecutors' questions before a grand jury about her former Whitewater partner Bill Clinton.

That case involved an attorney, William McCracken, who allowed his clients to destroy subpoenaed documents during a Senate investigation of airlines and of the U.S. Postmaster General. After a one-week trial in the Senate, McCracken was found guilty and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/294/125.html It is highly unlikely that anyone will be arrested for criminal contempt of Congress in relation to the Mueller investigation.

all ignore subpoenas? Do you think the Dems will just throw up their hands and move along? I don't. I guess we shall see.

isn't something the Dems have found a good counter to, yet. They need a good offensive coordinator.

Legal and civil action, which includes arrests if Congress is pressed to make its point.

The IRS is in the hands of a Trump appointee.

The DOJ is in the hands of a Trump appointee.

Both are taking orders from Trump. They are to stonewall until there are no options left, and then they are to challenge Congress and dare them to cite Trump's lackies for contempt of Congress and begin arrests. Trump's appointee to the IRS CAN go to prison. So can Barr. Neither will be willing to fall on their swords for Trump. So Congress will take these two lackies right to the wall, and have them ready for prosecution, before they give in and comply, but only with Trump's approval. If Trump continues to insist that they stonewall, then his lackies will be jailed, and they'll remain in jail UNTIL they comply.

Any abdication by the House will result in a revolutionary change in the Constitution, not through legislation, but through takeover by Trump's fascists, who will dismantle the Constitution unilaterally. So all of this only goes in one direction.

Trump will NOT abdicate, will not surrender his financial information, nor the Mueller Report, because doing so would truly reveal that he's a fraud AND a foreign agent. It will be in documents, and will be substantiated by raw facts.

Lets say someone at the IRS doesn't want to turn over documents (maybe they lost them in some "technical malfunction" ) or they refuse to testify by invoking their 5th amendment rights. How do you think congress should handle it?

So far all I'm seeing is them getting away with everything they aren't supposed to be able to do.

seem to be much more committed to protecting their corrupt client than to upholding the law. Some have probably earned disbarment or worse.

The Turtle just invoked the nuclear option so they can get judges on the Federal bench faster and faster. By the time these cases hit the courts a) it will take forever to wend it's way through the various layers of Federal courts, and, b) if it takes long enough the GOP/Trump only need to get one more judge on SCOTUS and they will have the majority and you can kiss the Constitution and Federal Laws goodbye.

has been all along, for many years infact.

subpoenas and there will calls for the Sergeant at Arms to arrest those in contempt of Congress which went no where.

Republicans will subvert democracy itself rather than lose power.

IF the senate and the house was controlled by DEMS> they would ALL be worried! BUT that isn't so. After the 2020 election THEY will be SQUIRMING!!!