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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...

Janna and julie and mike. What a battle it is. This is such a tight race. Its the top two candidates with the most votes who advanced to the general. Well, since place spot has bn bouncing back and forth between assembly memberuevanulowe and Santa Clara County supervisor joe simitian. Today lowe actually pulled ahead for the first time by a very tiny margin as a result of an influx of mail in ballots. Yesterday was the deadline for those ballots to be received by election offices. Now, here are the latest results from the Santa Clara County elections office. They show sam liccardo, former san ...

Charges. After the judge dismissed some of the counts against him. So what does it mean for the prosecution as district attorney, fani willis waits to learn if shes thrown off the case. Also, this hour, President Biden takes his Battleground State toured a crucial wisconsin just hours after he and donald trump both clinch their partys nomination. Ill discuss the state of the race with an influential, an independentmin ded democrat, us senator joe manchin, and a bill that could ban the very popular social media app tiktok in the United States is heading to the us senate after overwhelmingly pas...