Reply #26: Well, get ready, cause that's the most you'll see, at least at first.

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The Democrats are smart enough to know that playing this out simply is giving the administration more rope to hang itself with. They also know that it would be a major distraction if they preemptively decided to abandon 7 decades of practice and resort to the use of inherent contempt authority. They will spend their time on the defensive explaining why they need to proceed by way of a partisan "trial" (which the repubs will label a kangaroo court) rather than through the courts. It will be pointed out that the fact that the case might come before a repub judge, like Judge Walton, is not reason to avoid the courts. And if it turns out that the US Attorney refuses to go to a grand jury as directed by Congress, the option of inherent authority -- made all the more palatable by the further lawlessness of the administration -- remains open.