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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on December 13, 2021, 02:41:02 pm
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Jan. 6 committee, on Sunday, recommends Mark Meadows be held in contempt for defying subpoena
December 13, 2021 | Frieda Powers
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is being targeted by the U.S. House Select Committee investigating January 6th for a refusal to cooperate.
The committee recommended in a report released Sunday that Meadows be held in contempt of Congress over his refusal to comply with a subpoena attempting to obtain documents and testimony from former President Donald Trump’s then-chief of staff.
Though Meadows previously had cooperated with the committee, he then charged that the panel was guilty of an abuse of power, arguing that information he would not produce was protected by executive privilege.
But the House report noted that “Meadows’s failure to comply, and this contempt recommendation, are not based on good-faith disagreements over privilege assertions.
“Rather, Mr. Meadows has failed to comply and warrants contempt findings because he has wholly refused to appear to provide any testimony and refused to answer questions regarding even clearly non-privileged information—information that he himself has identified as non-privileged through his own document production,” the committee added in the report submitted by its chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss).
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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/12/13/jan-6-committee-on-sunday-recommends-mark-meadows-be-held-in-contempt-for-defying-subpoena-1174956/
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Let's hope that Meadows' suit against the committee succeeds, particularly on the argument that it is not lawfully constituted and therefore has no authority or legitimacy.