Contempt of Congress is the misdemeanor act of obstructing the work of the United States Congress or one of its committees. Historically, the bribery...
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contempt of Parliament or contempt of Congress. The verb for "to commit contempt" is contemn (as in "to contemn a court order") and a person guilty of this...
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the work of Congress is a crime under federal law and is known as contempt of Congress. Each member has the power to cite people for contempt but can only...
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Merrick Garland (category Jewish members of the Cabinet of the United States)
Garland in contempt of Congress, escalating Justice Department feud". Politico. June 12, 2024. "DOJ memo says Garland cannot be prosecuted for contempt over...
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Steve Bannon (redirect from Deconstruction of the administrative state)
committee, so was indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges of contempt of Congress. In July 2022, he was convicted and sentenced to four months in...
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William Barr (redirect from Political positions of William Barr)
documents to withhold them from Congress. Only once prior has a sitting Cabinet member been held in criminal contempt of Congress (Eric Holder in 2012). The...
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David Schoen (category Members of the defense counsel for the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump)
strategist Steve Bannon in 2022, after Bannon was indicted for criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the January 6 committee. Days before...
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Hollywood blacklist (category History of Hollywood, Los Angeles)
day after ten left-wing screenwriters and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities...
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on H.Res. 851 to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with the House Select...
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Wilbur Ross (category American people of Irish descent)
the Census based on a pretext. The House of Representatives held Ross in contempt of Congress and accused Ross of lying about the citizenship question's...
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23, 2013. In May 2014, Lerner was declared in contempt of Congress in connection with her invocation of her Fifth Amendment not to testify on the matter...
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Mark Meadows (redirect from Political positions of Mark Meadows)
Watergate scandal and first former member of Congress to have been held in contempt of Congress. The contempt charge was referred to the Justice Department...
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Stanley Woodward (attorney) (category Columbus School of Law alumni)
partner filed a brief on behalf of the Republican leaders in support of Steve Bannon in the criminal contempt of Congress case against Bannon (Bannon was...
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Eric Holder (category Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia)
became the first sitting attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress during an investigation of the Operation Fast and Furious ATF gunwalking scandal...
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Nancy Mace (redirect from In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel)
Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress". CNN. Retrieved May 30, 2022. Karni, Annie (June 26, 2025). "Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With...
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the House of Representatives find Lois G. Lerner, Former Director, Exempt Organizations, Internal Revenue Service, in contempt of Congress for refusal...
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Peter Licavoli (category American gangsters of Italian descent)
time of the ruling Licavoli was already in prison for income-tax evasion and received an additional sentence of six months for contempt of Congress. In...
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Antony Blinken (redirect from Antony Blinken's tenure as Secretary of State)
Affairs Committee voted to recommend U.S. Secretary of State Blinken be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena seeking information...
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investigations; and (3) contempt of Congress by refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas. These articles were reported to the House of Representatives...
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notably contempt of Congress in the United States. Actions that may constitute contempt of Parliament include: deliberately misleading a house of the legislature...
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George W. Bush (redirect from 43rd President of the United States of America)
president Harriet Miers and deputy chief of staff to the president Joshua Bolten were both found in contempt of Congress. In 2010, the Justice Department investigator...
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Pete Seeger (category People convicted of contempt of Congress)
any time he left the Southern District of New York. He was convicted in a jury trial of contempt of Congress in March 1961, and sentenced to ten one-year...
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G. Gordon Liddy (category People convicted of contempt of Congress)
Watergate charges. Liddy became one of very few people in American history to be convicted of criminal contempt of Congress.[citation needed] In 1980, Liddy...
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Dan Scavino (category American people of Italian descent)
the committee, the House of Representatives voted to hold Scavino in contempt of Congress in April 2022, though the Department of Justice declined to prosecute...
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Weiss special counsel investigation (redirect from Department of Justice investigation into Hunter Biden)
vote to hold Biden in contempt of Congress. The House Judiciary Committee approved the recommendation to hold Biden in contempt by 23 to 14, followed...
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Garland in criminal contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with the House Oversight Committee's request to turn over audiotapes of Biden regarding...
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Watergate scandal (redirect from List of Watergate conspirators)
that he be impeached for obstructing justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. In one of the tapes, later known as "the smoking gun,” he ordered...
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Peter Navarro (category People convicted of contempt of Congress)
Justice Department. In 2022, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of contempt of Congress. In 2023, Navarro was convicted on both counts, and in 2024, he...
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Harry Roque (category Party-list members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines)
As of 2025, Roque faces multiple legal controversies, including contempt of Congress, disbarment petitions, and human trafficking charges linked to Philippine...
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Joseph P. Kamp (category People convicted of contempt of Congress)
the Constitutional Educational League and was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress. Joseph Peter Kamp was born on May 3, 1900, in Yonkers, New York...
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