Is The Justice Department Finally Going After The Insurrection’s Big Fish? | Talking Points Memo

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Once I see honest to G-d penalties and consequences for such refusals, I’ll accept your statement. At this point, we’re still waiting for action on the subpoenas already issued and, it appears, the precedent has already been set that ignoring them is perfectly acceptable. There’s no evidence to the contrary.

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I’m not picky with regard to the altitude… as long as they hang.

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“It is very hard to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

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I realize this is totally different, but all I can think about is Mueller, no leaks from his team, the process ground on forever, and then what happened? Not much that I remember.
I just can’t follow the DOJ and Garland closely or I will make myself crazy.

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I think you are referring to subpoenas to appear before the J6 committee. I am thinking of grand jury subpoenas, which (though IANAL) I think are a different ball of wax.

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Well, maybe so, given that I’m not sure there’ve been any grand jury subpoenas on this yet, have there (asking honestly - I lose track)?

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Per the article, there has been grand a least one grand jury.

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And you know that he only comes here to bash Democrats.

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And that’s the one that just issued, yes?

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OT: Just when you think he couldn’t be a bigger asshole, he goes lower.

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Don’t know the details. NYT and WP articles are behind paywalls.

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I feel the comforting warmth of a whole lot of smoke being blown right up my ass.

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LOL Look at Maggie breaking news!

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Point of personal privilege…

Please don’t ever mention “a reverse Comey”, “memory hole”, and “Roger Stone” in the same post.

(This is a family-friendly site!)

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DoJ subpoenae are not congressional subpoenae. The penalty for blowing off a congressional subpoena is 1-12 months in prison. For a DoJ subpoena it is a 5 AM bang on the door and “federal marshals, open up!” and then a bad day before a pissed off judge who can lock you up indefinitely.

Also, congressional subpoenae expire every other january. DoJ subpoena don’t, though a change of presidents can get them dropped.

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Thanks for the clarification. This what I thought.

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ETTD

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OT: FFS

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It (now) cannot be unseen :nauseated_face:

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dumpster will not get caught up, others will.

There are a lot of fish to catch, almost an entire party. I don’t know if that’s an exaggeration.

ETA: FedSoc and ALEC have to go

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