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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: Stone pleading the 5th- will not hand over documents
to the Senate Judiciary Committee or cooperate with said Committee..
a kennedy
(29,837 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)pecosbob
(7,560 posts)but the House can definitely revisit this in January. Many of the Senate GOP are complicit, so they will take no action.
dem4decades
(11,330 posts)Jarqui
(10,131 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,835 posts)I cant talk about it cuz Ill probably implicate myself for a crime that I probably committed and Im guilty as shit but I dont want you to find out.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Why yes, yes he did:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/donald-trump-fifth-amendment-supreme-court/index.html
malaise
(269,537 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,584 posts)onenote
(42,920 posts)I don't think he can cite the Fifth Amendment as the basis for refusing to appear when subpoenaed -- if he wants to invoke the Fifth he has to do it question by question. So, in theory, the Committee could insist on his complying with a subpoena to appear and give testimony and charge him with contempt if refuses to appear.
Whether he can use the Fifth Amendment as a shield against producing documents is a more complicated question. Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes the answer is no.
And he could be offered immunity from prosecution by the committee and then forced to testify (again with contempt as the hammer).
malaise
(269,537 posts)Trust me
Hassler
(3,411 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Mueller time is quickly approaching.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)and, Democrats should force Stone to come before them and physically invoke the 5th on live TV
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