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1. ABA's definition of Inherent Contempt (from 2019)

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:40 PM

7 hrs ago

"[Inherent Contempt]... is when the House or Senate conducts its own summary proceedings and cites the offender for contempt. The accused can be incarcerated, although imprisonment may not extend beyond the end of the current session of Congress. But this path has not been used since the mid-1930s.

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/06/house-panel-contempt-efforts/

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ABA's definition of Inherent Contempt (from 2019) QED 7 hrs ago #1

I wish they'd quit talking about it and do something ... marble falls 7 hrs ago #2