An Oversight Committee spokesperson told POLITICO earlier this week that while the Secret Service “confirmed” the director is “expected to appear” for the hearing, Comer would issue a subpoena “to head off any attempt by DHS to backtrack on her appearance.” Comer...
In their unflinching quest for truth and justice, the Morcans take no prisoners as they ‘subpoena’ the global elite – be they banksters, US Presidents, British Royals, Big Pharma, the Vatican, the FBI, the CIA, the Military Industrial Complex or the founders and CEO’s of multinational ...
Many elected Republicans, meanwhile, have been wary of the issue or eager to declare their support, as IVF is politically popular and widely used. Cruz, one of several Southern Baptists in Congress, attempted to call up a bill Wednesday that he and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) drafted as ...
Like sort of seemed to me like what Alito was doing, which is that Congress hasn’t passed laws that are explicit enough that this kind of conduct is illegal. And prosecutors have written the wrong kinds of charging instructions and lower courts, including the lower court here, like they’...
The Supreme Court long ago validated congressional investigations, holding in the 1920s that congressional committees may issue subpoenas, compel witnesses to testify – and hold them in contempt for failure to comply. In modern times, Congress can compel sworn testimony and records from just about...
Trump’steam swiftly fought back against the subpoenas, asking a federal judge in New York to block the banks from complying and arguing that the subpoenas open the door to allow Congress to seek legislative powers beyond their job description. But federal judges in New York and Washington, D...
“There will be no way to unring the bell once the Banks give Congress the requested information,” the president’s attorneys argued in one court filing. Schiff, who had issued one of the subpoenas challenged in the lawsuit, called Wednesday’s ruling another “resounding victory in the dis...
s under the Patriot Act." She added: "They are obliged to submit data stored in Europe to U.S. authorities, thereby probably violating EU laws." Because these firms have operations in the U.S., she described it as "very difficult" for them to refuse to comply with a U.S. subpoena...
demands for his tax returns and is seeking a court order to stop congress from obtaining his new york state returns, which a recently passed law allows them to do. additionally, his legal team is challenging california’s new requirement that any presidential candidate must release their tax ...
Congress realized this too when, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, it passed theEthics in Government Act of 1978, which effectively established a fourth branch of government — a so-called “independent counsel” — whose prosecutorial power was not under presidential control. ...