Perspective | The House has the power to arrest people who defy its orders

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Perspective: The House has the power to arrest people who defy its orders

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The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Chairman Richard E. Neal , wants to see President Trump's tax returns. By Samuel Erman and Edward Kleinbard May 15 at 6:00 AM The House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to surrender President Trump’s tax returns to the committee by Friday. The odds are that Mnuchin will ignore the demand, although the law is clear that he must comply.

A Senate committee subpoenaed the attorney general’s brother, Mally Daugherty, to testify and to surrender documents from an Ohio bank that he controlled — but he refused. At that point, the Senate dispatched the sergeant at arms of the Senate to Cincinnati, where he placed Mally Daugherty under arrest and held him in custody.

This wasn’t the only time during the Harding administration that the Senate played this brand of hardball. In February 1928, when Robert Stewart, chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, refused to answer questions at a hearing, the Senate issued a warrant for his detention until he agreed to testify. The deputy sergeant at arms executed the warrant that same night, holding Stewart overnight in custody in a room in the Willard Hotel.

But in the last quarter-century, Congress has systematically undercut its own relevance. As Congress decided to shirk its most important responsibilities, ranging from war powers to passing timely budgets, Congress gradually lost the respect of the executive branch.

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LOL. And who's going to bring him in?

A 60yr old Sargent of Arms is no threat to anyone. Should he try and arrest AG Bar...he would have to defeat a phalanx of US Marshals who provide the AG personal security 24 by 7. Bring it Dems. Let’s see what happens!

PeterWelch as one of your constituents, may I please ask you to look into pursuing this? It's well past time for the House to exercise its power. And impeachment is not the only power you have.

Hitler also had the power to imprison all those who dared to disagree...

Bring out the handcuffs

Might be entertaining to watch the Sgt-at-Arms try to get past the US marshals who guard the AG 24-7.

....and they should!!!! Dems need to stop hesitating and get it done.

Lock them up!!!

Well arrest trump! Make a lot of people happy!

Obey Kilgrave:

TermLimitsNow

Try it! You lose......again.

Aha, go on...I’m here all week. I can wait to hear the truth SpeakerPelosi Unlike you, I’ll outlive you so hurry up.

Lock em up

Go for it let everyone see what hate and jealousy real reveals.

Yeah right, where you going to put them in jail, you don't have one duffus.

Start arresting them. Now

They need to do it!!

I would like to see them attempt this. The image of Pelosi ordering the Sergeant at Arms for Congress to bust downs doors at the Treasury and arresting then jailing the Sec. of the Treasury, for not releasing private tax records, would be so repulsive to voters.

So do it

SO START DOING IT

Prove it

LOCK HIM UP!

Get going arrest Barr and the other patsys !!!

Lock them all up for ignoring the subpoenas.

Time to TakeAction

time to throw him in jail, and throw away the key!!

Leader Pelosi mentioned is a recent interview that there is a jail in the basement of the Capitol. Hmmmm

Not gonna happen in this case

...which hasn’t used since the 1930’s

Total political swamp BS. Democrats need to get back to their day jobs the publicelected them to perform

The President has Tanks.

Show us the list of people previously asrrested. 😄😁 I think the last time was in 1789. The WashPost becomes less relevant and more like Salon everyday.

They need to do it.

Hahahahahahaha, no it does not.

jeandunn52 Yes, please. Lock his ass up! RIPGOP DitchMitch2020 GrahamIsCompromised

so put it in ACTION to make it real !

So, where was this column when Eric Holder was AG during the Obama Administration?

To quote my dear departed grandfather hey Democrats crap or get off the pot.

*∆*™..! I told you Trump you can't beat a full house..! And don't even try to cheat You thought the game was rigged but we saw the hand before it was delt you should of saw it may pokerface because I saw it in you'r$ it was a bluff..! ny quest!ons..!

No, they don’t have the power to arrest people. They have the power to criminally refer.

The orders of the House Democrats are not lawful orders and are therefore unenforceable. The Resistance Cult Democrats are just engaged in divisive, destructive anti-American political stunts designed to raise more campaign contributions from their angry and ignorant supporters.

It's not a question of whether they HAVE the power to protect the constitution; it's whether they will USE the power to protect the constitution. .SpeakerPelosi .RepCummings .SenatorBurr RepJerryNadler

And they should, you want to fix this problem then the Democrats need to grow some balls. The republicans like doing unto others. They would not hesitate, there would be no discussion. McConnell would have had Obama's AG arrested on the same day. Grow a pair folks.

JUST DO IT! Talk is cheap! Set an example!

Time for a new story. How about reporting on the investigation into the witch hunt that is going on? Or does that not fit your narrative?

Get busy

correct..

Keep squawking Destroying your own credibility by the tweeet.

So does Congress.

Does that include the President?

Message to HouseDemocrats

The House needs to STOP threatening to arrest people an DO IT to set an example for any other arrogant person who thinks they can ignore a subpoena!

They already said they won't. Every time they mention 'arrest' it's immediately followed by 'but we aren't really going to do that'. They are full of it. This is just a dog and pony show.

But they won't. AllTalkNadler PelosiAfraidToImpeach

WE KNOW! What we don’t know is why they won’t do it.

Stalin approves!

it's time, Dems. prove to the country you're not totally feckless.

Yeah well I’m pretty sure if you go against a subpoena you can be arrested anyway.....

So when is Obama's Wingman going to answer to this Justice? Asking for a Friend

If the House starts arresting ppl, I guarantee you, the jails will be full of Leftists.

Yes, they do...but then what?

It's way past time...JUST DO IT!! LockThemUp

Those GOPs must be arrested FIRST! Because most of them retain earning from the illegal NRA, Russian organizations and many illegal donations!

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