May 23, 2024

MAGA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told traitor Steve Bannon her plan to have the Sergeant at Arms arrest Attorney General Garland and jail him until he turns over audio to Congress, audio they're hoping will diminish President Biden.

Rep. Luna-tic finally read the rules manual and thinks she has an idea to confine Garland until he complies with Republicans' fishing operation.

BANNON: Tell me what's going on, America on the contempt citation. I thought that was going to move too quickly, but then you're coming out, you've got a plan B, is it?

LUNA: So, uh, so to kind of just quickly explain to the listeners, there's two types of contempt of Congress. There's criminal contempt, which Congress can bring towards anyone that violates a subpoena.

And then that goes to the Department of Justice to enforce. And then there's something called inherent contempt, which hasn't been done since the early 1900s.

And the reason why that's important is because so many people are really frustrated, I think with Congress, with, uh, really what's happening up here with legislators, not really doing their job.

Here is when the use of executive privilege is warranted.

Republicans like Rep. Jim Jordan have refused to honor a subpoena from the Jan 6th commission for years, but apparently Republicans are allowed to defy Congress whenever they want.

Rep. Gerry Connolly said it best: "Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, former Attorney General William Barr, former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino all ignored Congressional subpoenas. For Republicans, the Rule of Law is for everyone, except themselves."

LUNA: I mean, how many times are we going to just send angry letters and not actually demand accountability?

And so what this would allow is the Speaker of the House to essentially use the Sergeant as, uh, of Arms as an enforcement authority.

And because Garland has not complied, not just with one subpoena, but two subpoenas, um, it would actually enable the Sergeant of Arms to go get Garland and basically hold him until he brings forward that information or it forced him to essentially divulge and bring forward those recordings.

And so, interestingly enough, I actually heard representative Kelly earlier today in conference say, you know, isn't it interesting that at the Trump trials that they are not just, uh, bring for transcripts, but they're also playing recordings.

And why is it that the Biden administration after already leaking the transcript to the press is saying now that they have some executive privilege over these recordings?

And that's simply not the case actually, because they leaked them.

Um, that actually all goes out the window.

So that's my plan B. I'm planning on bringing this vote to the floor, which I can 10 days after we vote on contempt of Congress criminal, um, out of Congress.

And frankly, that's going to be the only accountability mechanism that we have over the Department of Justice and essentially the Attorney General.

Rep. Luna, as you said, this is why "so many people are are really frustrated, I think with Congress, with, uh, really what's happening up here with legislators, not really doing their job."

Outside of playing the victim, MAGA has no agenda.

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