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Democrats Need to Stop With the Closed-Door Hearings Where We Get Shards of the Truth.
Back in 1927, in a case called McGrain v. Daugherty, which involved the brother of Warren Harding's corrupt attorney general, Harry Daugherty, and which upheld the arrest and detention of the brother for failing to comply with a House subpoena, Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter wrote:
“Each house of Congress has power, through its own process, to compel a private individual to appear before it or one of its committees and give testimony needed to enable it efficiently to exercise a legislative function belonging to it under the Constitution. This has support in long practice of the houses separately, and in repeated Acts of Congress, all amounting to a practical construction of the Constitution.”
The Congress can do all of this while simultaneously pursuing redress through the courts, which is all Congress seems to be doing at the moment. No more earnest thumb-sucking over phony White House legal theorizing. (In McGrain, the Court ruled that every congressional subpoena must be assumed to have a legislative purpose, and if there is also an investigative function to it, that's just tough. That's for you, William Barr.) And, yes, open the damn impeachment inquiry. Announce it on live television, with bunting and balloons and band music. Either that, or stage an elaborate funeral both for the Constitutional order and the concept of irony. Bury them deep in the ground and go on with the farcical parade.
“Each house of Congress has power, through its own process, to compel a private individual to appear before it or one of its committees and give testimony needed to enable it efficiently to exercise a legislative function belonging to it under the Constitution. This has support in long practice of the houses separately, and in repeated Acts of Congress, all amounting to a practical construction of the Constitution.”
The Congress can do all of this while simultaneously pursuing redress through the courts, which is all Congress seems to be doing at the moment. No more earnest thumb-sucking over phony White House legal theorizing. (In McGrain, the Court ruled that every congressional subpoena must be assumed to have a legislative purpose, and if there is also an investigative function to it, that's just tough. That's for you, William Barr.) And, yes, open the damn impeachment inquiry. Announce it on live television, with bunting and balloons and band music. Either that, or stage an elaborate funeral both for the Constitutional order and the concept of irony. Bury them deep in the ground and go on with the farcical parade.
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