Merrick Garland

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) notified her Home colleagues on Monday that she plans to pressure a vote to compel the House sergeant-at-hands to arrest Attorney Normal Merrick Garland and produce him before the House through protecting him in “inherent contempt.”

“The best choice to ensure compliance with our subpoena is to make use of our constitutional authority of inherent contempt,” Luna wrote in her letter. “In the next few days, I’ll name up my decision holding Lawyer General Merrick Garland in inherent contempt of Congress, and I look forward to every of you balloting in prefer of it.”

House Republicans have already voted to carry Garland in contempt for refusing to show over audio of special information Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden – the transcript has been made public. “Our potential to legislate effectively and fulfill our constitutional tasks is at stake. We should act now to offer protection to the integrity and independence of the legislative department,” Luna claimed in her letter.

Fox News explained the maneuver, noting, “Inherent contempt differs from the criminal contempt decision passed on June 12. The latter referred Garland to his personal division for prison charges. Then again, inherent contempt, if passed, could pressure Garland to face trial prior to the Home of Representatives and, if found responsible, would lead to his detention by way of the Home Sergeant-at-Fingers.”

“It is a huge power that courts have recognized as important for Congress to fulfill its legislative functions. Under inherent contempt, the individual is introduced before the bar of the House via the Sergeant at Arms, tried by way of the body, and may then be detained either within the Capitol or in D.C.,” Luna wrote.

The Home has not successfully held anyone in inherent contempt considering that 1934 when Washington lawyer William MacCracken for ten days for no longer complying with a Senate subpoena.

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