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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
8. A subpoena is a subpoena is a subpoena
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 05:04 PM
Nov 2019

It doesn't matter if it is an impeachment inquiry or not.

Are you saying that, for some unarticulated reason, it is being a "fascist" not to comply with an impeachment committee subpoena, but any other Congressional committee subpoena is okay to ignore? I'd love to know where that comes from.

If a court has found a lawyer in contempt, then that's something to go to a bar disciplinary committee about. But no bar disciplinary committee is going to get into the business of deciding whether someone's objections to a subpoena in an ongoing proceeding are, or are not, valid.

They will act on a ruling of contempt from elsewhere, but they are not going to adjudicate subpoena compliance when there are perfectly fine mechanisms for pursuing that in the appropriate jurisdiction.

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