5.10.19 @ 9:26 am:
If you were to read the quote of this House representative, you may note that he doesn't want to go to court.
Why does he not want to go to court? Because it would be "quicker" to go through Congress than to go through the courts.
So, he says. What he doesn't say is what will it take to get the Attorney General arrested, and hauled before their "court". He says that Congress could hold a "mini-trial" and compel Barr's "production".
Production of what, exactly? Barr is cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over the full Mueller report, without redactions. The point of the arrest is to produce Barr, and not the report for which Barr would be presumably arrested, and therefore the grounds for arrest is just a pretense for detaining Barr.
Besides, if "Congress" is to hold Barr in contempt, shouldn't all of Congress vote on the matter? So far, we have only a committee in Congress, not the full House, not to mention the Senate. The matter would require a resolution, since this is an act in the name of the full Congress.
Furthermore, if production of the report is the reason for the citation for contempt, their only remedy is to go after anybody else that doesn't comply, not just Barr.
What did all this story come from? It is a realclearpolitics post that has a video of Schiff with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Here is a tweet of that below:
— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) May 10, 2019
The reason I include this is that Schiff says they are looking for counter-intel documents. He said that they were getting these before Comey was fired, but since then, they have not. Then, if that is the trouble, why isn't his beef with the new Director, Wray?
Maddow doesn't ask that question. Why not?
11:39 am:
It seems that a question needs to be asked. The question is why is this being considered now, at this point in US history? Also, why was it abandoned? When was it abandoned? When was it ongoing?
The answer to the two last question is that it was ongoing while the GOP ran the Congress for the most part starting in the 1850's, and continued until the New Deal started in the 1930's.
Why is it being considered now, and why was it abandoned in the 1930's? Those are what you can call "good questions".
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