Republicans hit IRS’ Lois Lerner with contempt

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3. The courts will not uphold this ruling

Back in the McCarthy era, the House attempted to hold people asserting their 5th amendment rights in contempt and the courts struck down these attempts. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/lois-lerner-contempt-vote_n_5283001.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

The House voted 231 to 187 along party lines Wednesday to hold Lerner in contempt. It's a step Congress hasn't taken since the McCarthy era, when it tried nine times to hold people in contempt for pleading the Fifth.

None of the votes have been upheld by the courts, but Republicans said that they had a responsibility to act.

The GOP also blew this vote procedurally earlier in the process according to Ranking Member Cummings