Newsweek has spoken, and, apparently, U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) plan to exercise “inherent Congressional contempt” powers is to be “mocked.”
Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has been the target of online mockery Sunday after proposing an unusual plan to take Attorney General Merrick Garland into custody. During an appearance on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with host Maria Bartiromo, Luna outlined her quest to use a little-known provision, last employed in the “early 1900s,” to enforce a Contempt of Congress resolution against Garland. The resolution, passed by the House on Wednesday, stems from Garland’s refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena demanding audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Of course, if you are foolish enough to listen to the left-leaning MSM organ Newsweek regarding Congressional powers, which, in turn, relies on quotes from a prominent Never Trump Republican and a Democrat partisan activist, then you certainly will believe their left-wing propaganda.
However, Newsweek is, quite simply, totally wrong. There is nothing unconstitutional or illegal or even ridiculous with the House of Representatives exercising its’ inherent contempt powers on Merrick Garland. As the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the bipartisan policy experts that do research for the U.S. Congress, has written:
Congress has three formal methods by which it can combat non-compliance with a duly issued subpoena. First, the long-dormant inherent contempt power permits Congress to rely on its own constitutional authority to detain and imprison a contemnor until the individual complies with congressional demands. Because the contemnor is generally released once the terms of the subpoena are met, inherent contempt serves the purpose of encouraging compliance with a congressional directive… Congress’s inherent contempt power is not specifically granted by the Constitution but is considered necessary to investigate and legislate effectively. The validity of the inherent contempt power was upheld in the early Supreme Court decision in Anderson v. Dunn and reiterated in McGrain v. Daugherty. Under the inherent contempt power the individual is brought before the House or Senate by the Sergeant-at-Arms, tried at the bar of the body, and can be imprisoned or detained in the Capitol or perhaps elsewhere.
Lock merrick garland away until he complies just like he requires everyone else to comply
Lets get this ball rolling soon as possible