Epstein Files | Ghislaine Maxwell
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theel4life
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Wow
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Not the Epstein files, of course, just this new interview that strangely coincided with rules being overridden to move her to Club Fed (for a start).
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Most of the info
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I'm not really sure how congressional subpoenas work, but surely a person receiving a subpoena would have the opportunity to quash it, perhaps on relevance grounds.
If this were a judicial proceeding, most of those subpoenas would be quashed for lack of relevance. I suspect that Lynch, Holder, Barr and Gonzales will all claim privilege. Garland should just give them the finger.
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Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund, 421 U.S. 491 (1975)
Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund
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These decisions don’t leave a ton of room to get a court to quash a Congressional subpoena.
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The concurrence in Eastland seems to think there's some room. There has to be some room: if a subcommittee issued 100,000 subpoenas, surely the court would wonder if there is a legitimate legislative purpose.
Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund, 421 U.S. 491 (1975)
Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund
These decisions don’t leave a ton of room to get a court to quash a Congressional subpoena.
I know they are more open-ended than judicial subpoenas, and maybe the answer is that none of the people on that subpoena list could quash.
Your lawyer negotiates with the committee’s lawyer. Typically you only get prosecuted for contempt if it is completely flagrant. With Bondi, she may prosecute for simply giving the wrong answers.
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They're likely hoping that all of these Democrats (or at least Trump critics) refuse to appear before the committee. Then they can turn that story into yet another distraction and right-wing media will go wild claiming that they only reason they're not appearing is because they all have something to hide, and that this is just another "Deep State" coverup. And of course their base will eat it up. I'm not saying that they should testify, only that this is how the GOP thinks these days. They're schemers and manipulators, and this is another scheme to divert attention from Trump's refusal to release the files. And sadly it will probably work, at least with their base.
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sounds more like a resort than a prison. What kind of prison doesn't have cells? Do they have their own apartments?
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I think it is sort of dormitory style two Tia room sharing sort of a suite with other room (sounds like my years in Ehringhaus at UNC - LOL) but they have to check in for head count five times a day, have assigned work requirements and are confined to their living quarters after certain hours in the evening. Look, I wouldn’t be happy being incarcerated there but it is a heck of a lot better than most prisons.