{"id":34744,"date":"2021-12-01T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34744"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:16:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/01\/quote-of-the-day-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <strong>House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/IJ\/IJ00\/20211201\/114281\/HRPT-117-NA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calendar<\/a><\/strong>, in connection to subpoenaed witnesses for the House Select Panel investigating the January 6th insurrection:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The contempt of Congress statute, 2 U.S.C. \u00a7 192, makes clear that a witness summoned before Congress must appear or be \u2018\u2018deemed guilty of a misdemeanor\u2019\u2019 punishable by a fine of up to $100,000 and imprisonment for up to 1 year.6 Further, the Supreme Court in United States v. Bryan (1950)\u00a0 emphasized that the subpoena power is a \u2018\u2018public duty, which every person within the jurisdiction of the Government is bound to perform when properly summoned.\u2019\u20197 The Supreme Court recently reinforced this clear\u00a0 obligation by stating that \u2018\u2018[w]hen Congress seeks information needed for intelligent legislative action, it unquestionably remains the duty of all citizens to cooperate.\u2019\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeffrey Clark isn&#8217;t going to curry favor with lawmakers intent on punishing those who planned the endangerment of lawmakers&#8217; lives without testifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the House of Representatives Calendar, in connection to subpoenaed witnesses for the House Select Panel investigating the January 6th insurrection: The contempt of Congress statute, 2 U.S.C. \u00a7 192, makes clear that a witness summoned before Congress must appear or be \u2018\u2018deemed guilty of a misdemeanor\u2019\u2019 punishable by a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/01\/quote-of-the-day-24\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34745,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34744\/revisions\/34745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}