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babylonsister

(171,070 posts) Thu Oct 10, 2019, 05:24 PM Oct 2019

Law Professor's Advice to House Democrats: Arrest Rudy Giuliani

Thursday, October 10, 2019
Law Professor's Advice to House Democrats: Arrest Rudy Giuliani
"The House arresting someone would be explosive and clearly should not be undertaken lightly. But the very explosiveness of it would be a way for the House to signal the seriousness of White House obstructionism to the public."
by Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Faced with an intransigent White House unwilling to cooperate with an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's pressuring of the Ukrainian government to investigate his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden, the House should take aggressive action including arresting Rudy Giuliani, a law professor argues in a column for The New York Times Thursday.

"If necessary, the House should be willing to have these fights."
—Josh Chafetz, law professor

"The answer is unlikely to be found in a courtroom," writes law professor Josh Chafetz.

The White House has repeatedly refused to answer subpoenas and on Tuesday afternoon, as Common Dreams reported, announced in an eight page letter that the administration will flatly refuse to cooperate in the inquiry, a move that could set up a constitutional crisis.

"There is no legal basis for Trump's position," NBC analyst Katie Phang said on Twitter Tuesday. "Hard stop."

House Democrats need to think outside the box, Chafetz argues.

"The House should instead put back on the table the option of using its sergeant-at-arms to arrest contemnors—as the person in violation of the order is called—especially when an individual, like Rudy Giuliani, is not an executive branch official," Chaftez writes.

Chafetz acknowledges that the move was extreme, but said that the net benefits of taking things to that level would outweigh the possible negatives of such an action and allow for the House to open the door to other punitive actions seen as less radical.

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Law Professor's Advice to House Democrats: Arrest Rudy Giuliani (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2019 OP

I suppose the House Sgt of Arms could arrest Rudy, DeminPennswoods Oct 2019 #1

Interesting thing about potential holding cells. Tiggeroshii Oct 2019 #2

That is interesting history DeminPennswoods Oct 2019 #3

The Ukrainians didn't think twice for their counterparts? Where's our legal system? ffr Oct 2019 #4

DeminPennswoods

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1. I suppose the House Sgt of Arms could arrest Rudy,

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2019, 05:35 PM

Oct 2019

but where would he be held? There's no jail in the Capitol. I guess they could do like the Saudi's and put him up at a hotel. Trump might go along with that idea if Dems rented a floor on the Trump DC Hotel. $s would win out over Rudy everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.