The House Jan. 6 select committee is already preparing to make good on its threat to hold former White House senior adviser Steve Bannon in criminal contempt ahead of his scheduled hearing on Thursday, according to CNN.
Add Costello to the list of lawyers who need to lose their license to practice.
I am hoping to see a frog march today.
You will not see a frog march today. I would expect USADC to work quick, but that means at least 30 days.
Just thinking out loud: Why doesn’t Bannon just show up to testify and claim the 5th? He could submit the requested documents redacted as well. Why does he think that the former still has the authority to tell people what to do or say?
Who is that guy? They don’t know him in the White House.
I am looking forward to him being arrested and seeing his mug shot.
Buzz kill!
Seriously, I understand that if immediate gratification is your thing, the Law… either as a practice, or as a spectator sport, just ain’t for you.
Because that looks bad.
Because (a) there’s no legal authority for that, and (b) it just tells everyone where the important bits are.
He doesn’t think that at all, and neither does his lawyer (who needs to lose his license over this bad faith effort).
Unless you’re the State of Texas on an emergency motion to the Fifth Circuit.
Put Bannon in contempt. Send the Marshalls to arrest him. Lock that traitor up!
The U.S. Marshals (one l) work for the Department of Justice, not Congress. They do not do Nancy Pelosi’s bidding.
I’d like to know just how this clown can claim executive privilege without knowing exactly what they’re going to talk to him about? It’s a Jan 6 affair…that took place long after he left office with Trump. Can he do that? I’m not arguing the fact that exec privileged is generally ridiculous in his case…it is…but on that specific point. How can he know he’ll be quizzed on what might fit privilege?
No, wait …it is ‘throw it against the wall and see if it sticks. He must think that he is very important and he doesn’t have to comply with anything or anyone.’
Now you can insert the name of whoever you want and it will make sense.
Bad faith.
Hey, Tex? (Can I call you Tex?) Since Bannon’s refusal to comply is by his lawyer’s own admission predicated on a request by the former President that he fail to comply, how hard would we have to stretch the law to charge him with Conspiracy to Obstruct Congress. I mean, we have the plan, (published by both parties), and the overt act in furtherance of the plan. Are we there, yet?
I believe bad faith on the behalf of an attorney is a bit like cutting off the wrong leg if you’re a surgeon. You can get into deep shit for it.
That’s the conventional reason, but in Bannon’s case I think it’s also because an act of defiance in refusing the subpoena is what his podcast audience wants to see. And that’s where his bread is being buttered these days. It’s all performance art, until an actual legal hammer comes down on him (eventually).
In discussions with lawyers, former US attorneys and others, Costello’s knowledge and abilities really come into question. Some even posited if he’d even finish law school based on his advice and responses.
They don’t expect things to go well for Bannon.
Mueller’s still looking for that hammer. He’ll let us know as soon as he finds it.