“And that would be true irrespective of who’s controlling the Congress,” Mr. Bannon, both men would face the prospects of jail time and fines. If the Justice Department decides to prosecute Mr. Schiff, Democrat of California and another committee member, noted that the House’s two contempt referrals, against Mr. 6 committee, said a huge difference between the first two years of Democratic control of the House and now is President Biden, who has aligned his White House counsel and his Justice Department with the House’s oversight efforts. Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the Jan. Stone Jr., said he would do so as well, declining to sit for an interview or produce documents to comply with a subpoena. Eastman, too, has cited the Fifth Amendment, and a third potential witness, the political operative Roger J. Trump’s frenzied plans to overturn the election, is scheduled to sit for a deposition on Thursday, and his lawyer said he would invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to certain questions. Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department lawyer who participated in Mr. Some key witnesses have settled on the tactic of invoking their right against self-incrimination. Trump’s case is expected to make it to the Supreme Court, whose conservative bent is thanks in large part to the three justices the former president nominated. Several courts thus far have ruled in favor of the committee, but Mr. Meadows had made a “good-faith invocation of executive privilege and testimonial immunity by a former senior executive official,” noting that he had been helpful where he could be, including by turning over thousands of documents the committee had found useful. Terwilliger III, similarly said he was not involved in a cynical game to run out the clock, but had legitimate objections about his constitutional rights and presidential prerogatives. He said he was not looking to delay a response “until Republicans inevitably take over the House in 2022,” but, he added, referring to Democrats currently in power, “I will beat them on the law, and I will make them look like the fools they are.” Trump’s assertion of executive privilege, and thus out of his control. Navarro, who coordinated the Trump administration’s pandemic response through his role overseeing the Defense Production Act, said on Wednesday that his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis was dictated by Mr. But time is something that works against us, and they know it.” “Ultimately, most of us have great faith that justice will be done and the facts will become known. “There are people who believe that they can stall and delay themselves out of the truth, and you know, to a certain extent, they have been rewarded,” said Representative Dan Kildee, Democrat of Michigan and a Ways and Means Committee member. 6 Capitol attack, a select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic and the Ways and Means Committee are all counting on the courts to deliver accountability. Trump’s aides and allies might go as they try to run out the clock on the current Congress and hope for Republican control in 2023, when new House leaders would simply drop the inquiries. The twisting saga of that case - with dozens of motions, hearings, lawyer changes and rulings - gives an indication of how House subpoenas of Mr. And even then, Judge Trevor McFadden of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia stayed his own judgment for 10 days to give the Trump camp time to file yet another appeal. Meadows could find comfort in the fact that the ruling took nearly two and a half years.

It was a sign of progress for Democrats, for sure, but Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress, a federal judge ruled that the Treasury Department could provide the former president’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.

WASHINGTON - On Tuesday night, as the House prepared to hold Donald J.

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