#contemptofcongress — Public Fediverse posts

I was going to rant about the threat of a #contemptofCongress charge against #AnthonyFauci for exercising his #5thAmendment right. Then I was reminded that #JoeBiden pardoned him. Not so sure now. I would have prefered that he give it to that dentist #RandPaul with both PHD barrels. Maybe he should have.

I was going to rant about the threat of a #contemptofCongress charge against #AnthonyFauci for exercising his #5thAmendment right. Then I was reminded that #JoeBiden pardoned him. Not so sure now. I would have prefered that he give it to that dentist #RandPaul with both PHD barrels. Maybe he should have.

The Peter Navarro Ruling Just Triggered a Massive Constitutional Showdown — Here's What's at Stake

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Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/07/peter-navarro-contempt-congress-ruling.html

#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #US #America #USNews #USPolitics #PeterNavarro #ContemptOfCongress #ExecutivePrivilege #BreakingNews #TopStory #NewsAlert

Letters from an American – December 20, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson

Letters from an American, December 20, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Dec 20, 2025

On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and although there was none of the usual publicity and fanfare President Donald Trump enjoys around a bill signing, the White House said that Trump signed it the same day, making it a law.

It required the United States Attorney General to “release all documents and records in possession of the Department of Justice relating to Jeffrey Epstein” no later than 30 days after the date the measure became law. It required that the Department of Justice “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of the Department of Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Attorneys’ Offices, that relate to: Jeffrey Epstein including all investigations, prosecutions, or custodial matters…. Ghislaine Maxwell…. Flight logs or travel records, including but not limited to manifests, itineraries, pilot records, and customs or immigration documentation, for any aircraft, vessel, or vehicle owned, operated, or used by Jeffrey Epstein or any related entity…. Individuals, including government officials, named or referenced in connection with Epstein’s criminal activities, civil settlements, immunity or plea agreements, or investigatory proceedings…. Entities (corporate, nonprofit, academic, or governmental) with known or alleged ties to Epstein’s trafficking or financial networks.”

It required the release of “[a]ny immunity deals, non-prosecution agreements, plea bargains, or sealed settlements involving Epstein or his associates” and “[i}nternal DOJ communications, including emails, memos, meeting notes, concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline to investigate Epstein or his associates.”

It required the Department of Justice to produce “[a]ll communications, memoranda, directives, logs, or metadata concerning the destruction, deletion, alteration, misplacement, or concealment of documents, recordings, or electronic data related to Epstein, his associates, his detention and death, or any investigative files.” It demanded “[d]ocumentation of Epstein’s detention or death, including incident reports, witness interviews, medical examiner files, autopsy reports, and written records detailing the circumstances and cause of death.”

The law established that the Department of Justice could withhold only information that was classified or that contained “personally identifiable information of victims or victims’ personal and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy”; images that “depict or contain child sexual abuse materials… [or] would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary”; images that “depict or contain images of death, physical abuse, or injury of any person; or…contain information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.”

The law required that the Department of Justice must justify all redactions with “a written justification published in the Federal Register and submitted to Congress.”

Otherwise, it said, records could not be “withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

The deadline for the release of that information was yesterday, December 19.

In the afternoon, the department began to release the required materials. But despite the law’s specification that the department release ALL the records, it released just a fraction of the required materials, saying it would release more later. Missing were any of the FBI interviews with survivors or internal Justice Department memos about charging decisions.

There are very few images of Epstein with Trump, despite their close relationship. Instead, the files focused on former Democratic president Bill Clinton, whose office responded with a statement saying: “The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton. This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy 20–plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be. Even Susie Wiles said Donald Trump was wrong about Bill Clinton.”

And then there were the redactions. So much of the material was redacted that, in front of television cameras, Jake Tapper of CNN scrolled through an entirely-blacked-out 100-page document on his phone and said: “That’s the transparency we’re getting here.”

Today observers caught that for all that the Department of Justice had omitted materials the law required they produce, Justice Department staffers had inserted unrelated material: a photo of former Democratic president Bill Clinton, pop music star Michael Jackson, and music legend Diana Ross, with children, suggesting that the three were associated with sex abuser Jeffery Epstein. The image was quickly identified by social media users not as a private image from the Epstein files, but as a publicly available image from a 2003 fundraiser. The children were not Epstein victims, but rather Jackson’s and Ross’s own kids.

Then it turned out, as Michael R. Sisak and David B. Caruso of the Associated Press reported, at least 16 files that had initially been posted on the Justice Department’s public website have disappeared without explanation, including one that showed multiple photographs of Trump with Epstein.

Democratic lawmakers Representative Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, and Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, released a statement yesterday after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the Department of Justice would not meet the deadline for the release of the Epstein files established by law.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: December 20, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson

Former #Trumpaide #SteveBannon begins four-month #prisonsentence for #contemptofCongress

https://ground.news/article/former-trump-aide-steve-bannon-begins-four-month-prison-sentence-for-contempt-of-congress_74d69d?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

Former #Trumpaide #SteveBannon begins four-month #prisonsentence for #contemptofCongress

https://ground.news/article/former-trump-aide-steve-bannon-begins-four-month-prison-sentence-for-contempt-of-congress_74d69d?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

#AGMerrickGarland #ContemptOfCongress #DOJ
Waste of time! 🙄

US declines to charge Merrick Garland for contempt of Congress

"US justice officials say the attorney general's refusal to hand over audio of Mr Biden is not a crime."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c988d8drn8po

#AGMerrickGarland #ContemptOfCongress
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Go ahead and pitch your little hissy fit! We are NOT giving you campaign ad material. You have the full transcript. 🙄🤦‍♂️

House votes to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt over Biden audio

"House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over audio of President Joe Biden's classified documents interview."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-holding-attorney-general-garland-contempt-biden-audio-rcna156327

Appeals Court Upholds Steve Bannon’s Conviction
Good News!!

The United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia upheld the contempt-of-Congress conviction of dirty Steve Bannon for his failure to comply with a January 6 Committee subpoena.

The court did not immediately order Bannon to begin serving his four-month prison sentence; inst
https://newsviews.online/2024/05/10/appeals-court-upholds-steve-bannons-conviction/
#CravenAssholes #ContemptOfCongress #jail #SteveBannon

Appeals Court Upholds Steve Bannon’s Conviction
Good News!!

The United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia upheld the contempt-of-Congress conviction of dirty Steve Bannon for his failure to comply with a January 6 Committee subpoena.

The court did not immediately order Bannon to begin serving his four-month prison sentence; inst
https://newsviews.online/2024/05/10/appeals-court-upholds-steve-bannons-conviction/
#CravenAssholes #ContemptOfCongress #jail #SteveBannon

Great, now do Gym Jordan.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/peter-navarro-contempt-congress-trump-ex-adviser

Remember this behavior is from members of the so-called law and order party. If they were black at a traffic stop they would get shot in the back for this kind of behavior. Obviously I don't condone that but remember these Republicans always say black people should "just comply". If only they did it themselves.

#peternavarro #jimjordan #contemptofcongress #lawandorder

Great, now do Gym Jordan.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/peter-navarro-contempt-congress-trump-ex-adviser

Remember this behavior is from members of the so-called law and order party. If they were black at a traffic stop they would get shot in the back for this kind of behavior. Obviously I don't condone that but remember these Republicans always say black people should "just comply". If only they did it themselves.

#peternavarro #jimjordan #contemptofcongress #lawandorder

Republicans’ bid to hold Hunter Biden in contempt appears to be suspended

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-house-republicans

#HunterBiden #ContemptOfCongress #HouseRepublicans #Suspended #Bid #Hold #Politics #News

Republicans’ bid to hold Hunter Biden in contempt appears to be suspended

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-house-republicans

#HunterBiden #ContemptOfCongress #HouseRepublicans #Suspended #Bid #Hold #Politics #News

Judge Denies Peter Navarro a New Trial in Contempt of Congress Conviction
US District Judge Amit Mehta on Tuesday declined Peter Navarro a do-over of his criminal contempt of Congress trial based on his claim that the jurors may have been influenced by political protesters when they took a break during deliberations.

“No one directed
https://newsviews.online/2024/01/16/judge-denies-peter-navarro-a-new-trial-in-contempt-of-congress-conviction/
#Justice #ContemptOfCongress #PeterNavarro

Judge Denies Peter Navarro a New Trial in Contempt of Congress Conviction
US District Judge Amit Mehta on Tuesday declined Peter Navarro a do-over of his criminal contempt of Congress trial based on his claim that the jurors may have been influenced by political protesters when they took a break during deliberations.

“No one directed
https://newsviews.online/2024/01/16/judge-denies-peter-navarro-a-new-trial-in-contempt-of-congress-conviction/
#Justice #ContemptOfCongress #PeterNavarro

Hunter Biden makes surprise appearance at contempt of Congress hearing

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4400047-hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-hearing/

#HunterBiden #ContemptOfCongress #CongressHearing #SurpriseAppearance #TheHill #News #Politics #News

Hunter Biden makes surprise appearance at contempt of Congress hearing

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4400047-hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-hearing/

#HunterBiden #ContemptOfCongress #CongressHearing #SurpriseAppearance #TheHill #News #Politics #News

Steve Bannon's hopes of avoiding prison suffer blow

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-appeal-contempt-congress-jail-1842666

#SteveBannonPrisonBlow #BannonAppealDenied #CongressContemptCase #AvoidingPrisonHope #SteveBannonJail #ContemptOfCongress #Politics #News

Steve Bannon's hopes of avoiding prison suffer blow

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-appeal-contempt-congress-jail-1842666

#SteveBannonPrisonBlow #BannonAppealDenied #CongressContemptCase #AvoidingPrisonHope #SteveBannonJail #ContemptOfCongress #Politics #News

Trump's master of #StupidEconomics, Peter Navarro confesses Trump sponsored his demonstration of Contempt of Congress, with a promise to help pay legal bills, when his case goes to court.

https://www.inquisitr.com/peter-navarro-reveals-trump-helped-him-pay-legal-bills-worth-300-000-for-contempt-of-congress-case
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Trump #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #ContemptOfCongress #Subpoenas #ObstructionOfJustice #Navarro #StupidEconomics #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters

Trump's master of #StupidEconomics, Peter Navarro confesses Trump sponsored his demonstration of Contempt of Congress, with a promise to help pay legal bills, when his case goes to court.

https://www.inquisitr.com/peter-navarro-reveals-trump-helped-him-pay-legal-bills-worth-300-000-for-contempt-of-congress-case
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Trump #OrganizedCrime #CriminalNetwork #ContemptOfCongress #Subpoenas #ObstructionOfJustice #Navarro #StupidEconomics #CareerCriminals #CareerFraudsters

Time to prosecute Tuberville for obstruction of national defense, obstruction of Congress/official proceedings, contempt of Congress & giving aid & comfort to Putin & the Kremlin!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/15/military-promotions-tommy-tuberville-abortion/70852126007/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #TubervilleSabotage #ObstructionOfOfficialProceedings #ObstructionOfConfirmations #ObstructionOfCongress #ContemptOfCongress #Treason #ServingPutin #AidingAndAbetting #NineMonthHold #MilitaryPromotions #NationalDefense

Time to prosecute Tuberville for obstruction of national defense, obstruction of Congress/official proceedings, contempt of Congress & giving aid & comfort to Putin & the Kremlin!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/15/military-promotions-tommy-tuberville-abortion/70852126007/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #TubervilleSabotage #ObstructionOfOfficialProceedings #ObstructionOfConfirmations #ObstructionOfCongress #ContemptOfCongress #Treason #ServingPutin #AidingAndAbetting #NineMonthHold #MilitaryPromotions #NationalDefense

Navarro’s Judge to Consider Mistrial
The federal judge who oversaw Peter Navarro's criminal contempt of Congress trial is being asked to consider a mistrial on Wednesday.

Navarro's attorneys argue that jurors may have seen political protesters during the deliberations when they took a break outdoors shortly before announcing they had reached a verdict, saying
https://newsviews.online/2023/09/13/navarros-judge-to-consider-mistrial/
#Justice #ContemptOfCongress #mistrial #PeterNavarro

Navarro’s Judge to Consider Mistrial
The federal judge who oversaw Peter Navarro's criminal contempt of Congress trial is being asked to consider a mistrial on Wednesday.

Navarro's attorneys argue that jurors may have seen political protesters during the deliberations when they took a break outdoors shortly before announcing they had reached a verdict, saying
https://newsviews.online/2023/09/13/navarros-judge-to-consider-mistrial/
#Justice #ContemptOfCongress #mistrial #PeterNavarro

Peter Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-navarro-verdict-trump-contempt-of-congress-january-6/

#CBSNews #PeterNavarro #ContemptOfCongress #Jan6Committee #Subpoena #Verdict #Politics #News

#PeterNavarro, Trump White House official, convicted of #ContemptOfCongress | CBC News

Hah hah.
#Oh #Loser #FAFO
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/navararo-convicted-contempt-congress-1.6959797?cmp=rss

@evilmicrowizard @SmudgeTheInsultCat Maybe Ann Coulter rather prefers smarter criminals than Trump to lead the Con-servatives into 2024.🤔😉

#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #BanTheGOP #CriminalNetwork #ContemptOfCongress #ObstructionOfJustice #Insurrection #Jan6

@Pineywoozle @jackhutton Yup, he is.

Allowing him to even enter Congress & take the chair of the House Judiciary Committee equates to something like letting Al Capone assume the seat of Attorney General.

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DisbarJimJordan #RemoveJimJordan #DisqualifyJimJordan #ContemptOfCongress #ObstructionOfJustice #OSU #SexualAssault #Wrestlers

It Cost Steve Bannon $601,000 to Ignore the Jan. 6 Committee

https://www.thedailybeast.com/it-cost-steve-bannon-dollar601000-to-ignore-the-jan-6-committee

#DailyBeast #SteveBannon #Jan6Committee #ContemptOfCongress #PoliticalSubpoena #LegalFines #Politics #News

@newrepublic Another misdemeanor Clarence Thomas shares with the Jan 6 insurrectionist-in-chief.

#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CompromisedCourt #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateTheSix #Corruption #Bias #ContemptOfCongress