According to The Washington Post, the Senate sergeant at arms did not have a place to hold MacCracken, who was later put up at a nearby hotel. When Republicans controlled the House in , they voted to hold President Barack Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder , in contempt over the administration's refusal to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal.
The Obama Justice Department would not prosecute Holder, resulting in a protracted legal battle; it wasn't until January that a federal judge ordered the Justice Department to produce some documents. The Obama administration appealed, and the case lingered until President Donald Trump took office.
Whilethe Trump Justice Department agreed to release some records in March , the litigation was finally resolved only Wednesday after both sides ended a dispute over some of the judge's decisions.
Bush's former White House counsel Harriet Miers and chief of staff Josh Bolten in contempt after the White House, citing executive privilege, directed them not to comply with subpoenas for documents related to a congressional investigation into the firing of several U. The speaker of the House asked the U.
Congress sued, and a district court judge sided with lawmakers. The Bush administration appealed, and while the case was still pending, Obama took office. The new administration then settled the case, granting Congress access to some of the documents it sought and allowing sworn testimony from Miers. By then, a year and a half after Congress issued the subpoena, the oversight issue largely was moot.
Other Cabinet-level or senior executive branch officials cited for contempt in recent history include Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Commerce Secretary Rogers C. Califano Jr. Quinn in ; and Attorney General Janet Reno in After members of the House Judiciary Committee concluded their markup discussion over the resolution to hold Barr in contempt Wednesday, the panel voted on the resolution.
The resolution now could go to a vote in the full House. Only a simple majority is needed to advance the contempt resolution, and only one chamber needs to approve the measure for a person to be prosecuted for contempt. With a criminal contempt citation, the House would refer the citation to the U. Before leaving office in January, Trump pardoned Bannon of charges he had swindled the Republican president's supporters.
Trump has urged former aides subpoenaed by the panel to reject its requests, claiming executive privilege. Bannon, through his lawyer, has said he will not cooperate with the committee until Trump's executive privilege claim is resolved by a court or through a settlement agreement.
Bannon's and Mr. Trump's privilege arguments do appear to reveal one thing, however: They suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of Jan. And we will get to the bottom of that. Thompson said Bannon "stands alone" among those subpoenaed in his refusal to cooperate. More than people have been charged with taking part in the riot, the worst attack on the U. The select committee has issued 19 subpoenas. August 20, In its report, the committee argued that Bannon made statements suggesting he knew ahead of time about "extreme events" on Jan.
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Read More. The vote by the full House to hold Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress sets up a referral to the Department of Justice, which would then have to decide whether to prosecute. Garland: DOJ 'will apply the facts and the law' when considering Bannon referral. Earlier in the afternoon, the House voted to approve the rule providing for consideration of the contempt resolution.
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