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The guess to start, one of fundamental jobs of congress is to do oversight over the executive branch, to make sure that the democracy, people are happy with the work of the executive is doing. From time to time, congress is to satisfied with the cooperation it gets from the executive ranch, so one of the things we have seen, particularly in the last decade or so is Congress Going to court on occasion to try and get help enforcing subpoenas. Why not hold a formal contempt vote . Why take this route . Guest they are not mutually exclusive. Civiles where the enforcement has been pursued in the co...

Guest they are not mutually exclusive. In the cases where Civil Enforcement has been pursued in courts, its been preceded by contempt votes in the house. The house has a number of options when someone violates a subpoena and refuses to appear. The house could arrest the individual, could send out a sergeant in arms and put them somewhere in the capital. They could arrest them. That was used in the 19th and early 20th century. It hasnt been used since the early 20th century. The second option is to refer the matter to the department of justice for prosecution, which is what happens when a priva...

To try to get help enforcing subpoenas. Host nathan, why not hold a formal contempt vote . Why take this route. I think they are not mutually exclusive. In cases where several enforcement has been pursued in the courts, it has been proceeded by contempt votes in the house. The notion is that the house has a number of options when someone violates a subpoena or refuses to appear. Guest they are not mutually exclusive. In the cases where Civil Enforcement has been pursued in courts, its been preceded by contempt votes in the house. The house has a number of options when someone violates a subpoe...

Charles allen wri Stephen Vladek holds the charles rent university of texas published in the New York Times Los Angeles Times he has argued before the Circuit Court that speaks in and of itself and the Supreme Court analystt in 2013 and steven livs in austin texas. I will hand it over to them. [applause] good evening. Stephen vladek a hero in his own town and its great to be here. The first thing i want to ask is will move this conversation. There is still time. I think 20 minutes of silence is about right for a book about the supremed court decisions. It has gone better than last night actual...

on the questioning graeme could face. georgia investigators want to get to the bottom of grams -- of georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. raffensperger claims graham asked him if he had the power to reject a certain absentee ballots. in raffensperger's view, that was -- to toss out votes in a free and fair election. quote -- we're going to ask joyce matt vance about all this in just a minute. here's the broader context when it comes to these various investigations into trump's attacks on democracy. a clear majority of americans want investigations like the one in georgia to...