NOT CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS
if she is held in contempt of congress then it has to go through the u.s. attorney (gonzo!) and it will never happen.
INHERENT CONTEMPT will keep it in the senate. they need a simple majority vote, the sergeant of arms will arrest her, there will hold a trial in the senate RIGHT AWAY, if she is found guilty she can even go TO PRISON! (this is to compel the witness to testify)
Inherent contempt
Under this process, the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited for contempt is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subject to punishment that the House may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation.) Concerned with the time-consuming nature of a contempt proceeding and the inability to extend punishment further than the session of the Congress concerned (under Supreme Court rulings), Congress created a statutory process in 1857. While Congress retains its "inherent contempt" authority and may exercise it at any time, this inherent contempt process was last used by the Senate in 1934, against the Postmaster-General. After a one-week trial in the Senate floor (presided by the Vice-President of the United States, acting as Senate President), the Postmaster-General was found guilty and sentenced to 10 days imprisonment.
The Postmaster General had filed a petition of Habeas Corpus in federal courts to overturn his arrest, but after litigation, the US Supreme Court ruled that Congress had acted constitutionally, and denied the petition in the case Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 (1945). <1>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress i'm listening to randi's wednesday show and they are explaining this.
http://server7.whiterosesociety.org/content/rhodes/RhodesShow-(11-7-2007).mp3
if you have real player it begins at 2:31 on the mark.
HERE ARE THE PEOPLE WE NEED TO CONTACT ON THE JUDICIARY http://judiciary.senate.gov/members.cfmremember: contempt of congress is NOT THE WAY TO GO.
THEY NEED TO BE HELD IN INHERENT CONTEMPT!
dear senator,
my understanding is that harriet miers will not be appearing before congress today, regardless of the subpoena she has been given.
i am writing to urge you to use the process of INHERENT CONTEMPT -- the procedure of holding a person in contempt within the legislative branch.
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