What's Up With the January 6 Investigation?
The Lawfare Podcast
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Is There a Criminal Contempt of Congress Statute?
i gave bannon a dead line, and you know, the fact that he said he's going to ignore it does not mean the dead line has passed, right? So i want to come back, i'm real quick, to something that ben you were talking about. In kind ofa more traditional set up at the sequence in which we see coercive attempts to get someone to testify in court, followed am criminal prosecution for contempt if they do not do so. Well, and moreover, i think we have seen so much discussion of the possibility of actual prosecution under the criminal contempt of congress statute in this case. For the first time in several decades, a real possibility would prosecute some one who
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