Contempt of Congress is the act of obstructing the work of the United States Congress or one of its committees. Historically, the bribery of a U.S. senator... 34 KB (2,496 words) - 09:45, 23 April 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,756 words) - 09:45, 23 April 2024 |
 | 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... 186 KB (17,050 words) - 12:26, 25 April 2024 |
Contempt or contemptible may also refer to: Contempt (album), by Assemblage 23 Contempt (film), by Jean-Luc Godard Contempt of Congress Contempt of court... 575 bytes (109 words) - 22:57, 15 March 2019 |
notably contempt of Congress in the United States. Actions that may constitute contempt of Parliament include: deliberately misleading a house of the legislature... 26 KB (3,277 words) - 21:26, 4 April 2024 |
 | Weiss special counsel investigation (redirect from Department of Justice investigation into Hunter Biden) recommend a full House vote to hold Biden in contempt of Congress. The House Judiciary Committee approved the contempt charge by 23 to 14, followed by the House... 31 KB (3,198 words) - 12:35, 30 March 2024 |
 | Steve Bannon (redirect from Deconstruction of the administrative state) director Christopher Wray should be executed. Bannon was held in contempt of Congress in October 2021 after he refused to comply with a subpoena issued... 271 KB (23,865 words) - 01:34, 21 April 2024 |
 | 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... 27 KB (2,819 words) - 05:42, 16 April 2024 |
 | Mark Meadows (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina) 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... 90 KB (8,591 words) - 03:41, 25 April 2024 |
 | William Barr (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from December 2020) 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... 241 KB (23,756 words) - 11:35, 12 March 2024 |
 | 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. In 1980, Liddy published an autobiography... 42 KB (4,165 words) - 22:00, 7 April 2024 |
Hollywood blacklist (category History of Hollywood, Los Angeles) 25, 1947, the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee... 100 KB (12,075 words) - 13:35, 14 April 2024 |
 | 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... 128 KB (13,018 words) - 05:05, 16 April 2024 |
 | Mueller special counsel investigation (redirect from 2017 Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice team) agreed to hold a vote to start Contempt of Congress proceedings against Barr on May 8. A law issued in 1857 gives Congress the power to issue criminal charges... 219 KB (18,200 words) - 05:52, 16 April 2024 |
 | 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... 193 KB (7,971 words) - 16:49, 20 April 2024 |
 | 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... 14 KB (1,283 words) - 02:57, 7 September 2023 |
 | the case of Watkins v. United States, curtailing the power of HUAC to punish uncooperative witnesses by finding them in contempt of Congress. Justice... 120 KB (13,817 words) - 15:46, 24 April 2024 |
 | Ring Lardner Jr. (category Writers Guild of America Award winners) guilty of contempt of Congress. Born in Chicago, he was the son of Ellis (Abbott) and journalist and humorist Ring Lardner and the brother of James, John... 13 KB (1,302 words) - 14:20, 24 December 2023 |
 | Peter Navarro (category People convicted of contempt of Congress) official ever imprisoned on a contempt-of-Congress conviction. Navarro's views on trade are significantly outside the mainstream of economic thought, and are... 141 KB (12,806 words) - 01:19, 19 April 2024 |
of being communists. Miller was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress... 51 KB (5,955 words) - 05:12, 18 April 2024 |
 | Pete Seeger (category People convicted of contempt of Congress) contempt of Congress; for some years, he had to keep the federal government apprised of where he was going any time he left the Southern District of New... 119 KB (13,911 words) - 14:29, 14 April 2024 |
 | investigations; and (3) contempt of Congress by refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas. These articles were reported to the House of Representatives... 171 KB (18,967 words) - 14:50, 25 March 2024 |
 | lying to Congress and hindering the House Republican-led investigation into the Department of Homeland Security. On February 6, 2024, the House of Representatives... 40 KB (2,726 words) - 04:25, 20 April 2024 |
Executive privilege (category Presidency of the United States) 23–17 along party lines to hold Holder in contempt of Congress over not releasing the documents. Leaders of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission... 32 KB (3,642 words) - 01:12, 13 April 2023 |
 | ATF gunwalking scandal (category Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Holder became the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress. At Holder's request, President Barack Obama... 128 KB (13,096 words) - 04:37, 16 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (1,552 words) - 11:28, 15 April 2024 |
 | adopted three articles of impeachment against him (1. obstruction of justice, 2. abuse of power, and 3. contempt of Congress), but before the House could... 61 KB (5,383 words) - 23:45, 21 April 2024 |
 | Robert Shelton (Ku Klux Klan) (category People convicted of contempt of Congress) was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $1,000 for contempt of the United States Congress, "for refusing to turn over membership lists to the House... 8 KB (623 words) - 01:58, 27 March 2024 |
 | 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... 76 KB (7,394 words) - 17:19, 9 April 2024 |
 | Nancy Mace (category Female members of the United States House of Representatives) On October 21, 2021, Mace was one of nine House Republicans who voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to appear before... 62 KB (4,904 words) - 13:34, 26 April 2024 |