How is Congress supposed to conduct oversight...........

[Takket]

Sept 23rd, 2021, Bannon was subpoenaed by the Jan 6 committee...

10/8/21: He refused to comply

It is now 11/23/22, FOURTEEN MONTHS LATER, and he has not yet served a day in prison for ignoring congress.

This is a miscarriage of justice.

The only means Congress has to conduct oversight is if people volunteer to show up. Otherwise, they are essentially powerless. Even when Bannon goes to jail it will be for four months, which is still a hell of a lot better for him than copping to sedition and being locked up for life

[SoCalDavidS]

1. And I Get Criticized For Continually Saying That TFG Will NEVER Be Indicted

Posters here at DU constantly are saying that TFG is going to prison.

He's more likely to get elected in 2024.

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2. He'll be indicted. He might not ever go to jail but he won't...

ever be president again either. Too many judicial actions pending against him which operate as force multipliers, as even his hand-picked SCOTUS justices are ruling against him in the his tax return case and the special master miscarriage of justice by the trump toady Judge Cannon in Florida.

There's a collective understanding that this obvious criminal can not become president again.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

3. Just Remind Them That THEY Set This Precedent..........

.......when they try to subpoena people to testify in their Hunter Biden investigation, and their investigation of whatever "scandal" they're going to gin up as their pretext to impeach Biden, and their re-opening of the Benghazi investigation, and everything else they plan to use to distract voters from the fact that they're not planning to do ANYTHING about inflation or crime or any of the other issues they campaigned on.

And then when they whine to Merrick Garland to bring charges against the people who ignored their subpoenas, all he has to do is tell them, "OK, we'll indict people for ignoring subpoenas. But we're going to do it chronologically, starting with all the Republicans who ignored subpoenas 2 years ago, which includes Lindsay Graham and Donald Trump. Deal?"