House Judiciary chair threatens to hold Google in contempt of Congress for failing to produce

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Source: CNBC

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, threatened enforcement action against Google that could include holding the company in contempt of Congress for failing to produce documents the committee subpoenaed to learn about communications between tech companies and the Biden administration.

In a letter to a lawyer for Google shared exclusively with CNBC, Jordan called the company’s compliance so far “insufficient” and demanded it hand over more information. If the company fails to comply fully by its new May 22 deadline, Jordan warned, “the Committee may be forced to consider the use of one or more enforcement mechanisms.”

Jordan issued subpoenas to the CEOs of Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft in February, demanding they hand over communication with the U.S. government to “understand how and to what extent the Executive Branch coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech.” Jordan requested the companies comply by March 23. He made the request after initially asking the companies to hand over the information voluntarily, but said they had not sufficiently complied.

While several other tech giants were subpoenaed in connection with the committee’s investigation, the other companies have so far appeared more responsive than Google to the demands, according to a source familiar with the matter who declined to be named in order to speak freely.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/08/jordan-threatens-action-against-google-for-not-complying-with-subpoena.html

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House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, threatened enforcement action against Google that could include holding the company in contempt of Congress for failing to produce documents the committee subpoenaed to learn about tech company communications with the Biden administration.

In a letter to a lawyer for Google shared exclusively with CNBC, Jordan called the company’s compliance so far “insufficient” and demanded it hand over more information. If the company fails to comply fully by its new May 22 deadline, Jordan warned, “the Committee may be forced to consider the use of one or more enforcement mechanisms.”

Jordan issued subpoenas to the CEOs of Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft in February, demanding they hand over communication with the U.S. government to “understand how and to what extent the Executive Branch coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech.” Jordan requested the companies comply by March 23. He made the request after initially asking the companies to hand over the information voluntarily, but said they had not sufficiently complied.

While several other tech giants were subpoenaed in connection with the committee’s investigation, the other companies have so far appeared more responsive than Google to the demands, according to a source familiar with the matter.

[dchill]

1. Nazi creeper says what?

[groundloop]

2. That's rich, coming from the GQP which has set the precedent of totally ignoring subpoenas

And for nothing more than political theatre.

[TeamProg]

3. Now, if only Gym's team could tie the many book bans to Google and the Biden Admin.. nt

[LuvLoogie]

4. Jordan needs to subpoena the whole of civil society

in order to get to the bottom of why people see the GOP as a crew of fascist, bigoted fuckwits.

[Hekate]

5. But but but I thought the GOP proved that no one has to respond to a House subpoena or request?

[Happy Hoosier]

6. The dude who thumbed his nose at Congressional Subpoenas...

is shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that others are ignoring him. Actions... meet consequences.

[KS Toronado]

7. The irony is lost to GYM

Need at least 2 brain cells to see it.

[Happy Hoosier]

8. He is NOT a smart man....

...but here we are. About half the country wants dumbasses governing. Just as long as they hate the right people.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I wonder how many communications there were from the Trump administration to Google?

If past experience is anything to go by, they'll have tried far more to get Google to change something than a Democratic administration has. I hope Google has all that lined up and ready to send to the Democrats on the committee if it looks like there's anything else to come from Google.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

10. Oh, tempt me not, Frodo!

If I were Google, I don't know if I could resist the urge to send back a letter stating, "We'll honor a congressional subpoena when you do, traitor trash."

I suspect that Google has lawyers good enough to send that response in legalese, if they feel like going there.

[IbogaProject]

11. I thought congressional subpoenas are optional

Didn't the T45 and the GOP do numerous things to dodge and even ignore lawful Congressional Subpoenas? So I assume they are optional until we can agree on enforcement.

[hueymahl]

12. I would like to see them comply

If for no other reason than to put this talking points to test that there was a conspiracy to censor republicans