What? Why? It's his constitutional right to plead the 5th. It can't be contempt if he's protecting his own legal situation.
Contempt if he refuses to produce subpoenaed documents, I don't think pleading the 5th means you don't have to produce existing documents if you think they might incriminate you.
Contempt through congress is a looooong process though.
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I know it's the Onion but is this real? There has to be some element of truth to this.
No, it's all spoof stuff. Check out Mike Pence's "Lord to Beast Translator" invention. Or the CIA document that's warning the Administration about an upcoming "defamatory blog post" from the Jackson Star-Tribune.
That's twice this year I've somewhat agreed with Newt. Did NOT expect and article like this from either Newt or Fox News
Gingrich, Nolan: Opioid addictions won't be cured by tough sentences
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A huge body of evidence shows opioid addiction is a chemical brain disease – not a behavioral or lifestyle decision. Because of this, many people who are chemically predisposed to opioid addiction become hooked after taking lawfully prescribed opioid-based painkillers following a surgery or an accident. Once the prescription runs out, they turn to the illegal market to feed their addiction. These are not people with malignant intentions, they are suffering from an addiction – a medical condition.
How do we know imposing tough sentences doesn’t work to stem the tide of drug use, trafficking, and addiction? Because we tried it in the 1980s by assigning strong sentences to crack cocaine violations – and it failed miserably.
Over the last 30 years, the federal prison population has ballooned from 24,000 to about 200,000. In that time, taxpayers have spent billions financing this failed experiment. About half of those 200,000 federal inmates are incarcerated on drug charges – and only 14 percent of those convicted of drug offenses are major traffickers. Many in the remaining 86 percent of drug offenders don’t even have prior criminal records. Meanwhile, the number of people who self-report using illegal drugs has increased, and recidivism for drug offenders has been largely unaffected by stiff sentences.
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Frankly, putting people battling opioid addiction in jail rather than in treatment programs could lead to more opioid-related deaths.
Its so frustrating dealing with these Christian dominionists, evangelicals who have such hatred for people that prison systems have to be punishment not rehabilitation, sex education has to be abstinence only even though all evidence says they fail miserably, and drugs have to be punished hard not treated as a medical issue rather than a criminal one.
I really loathe these people, they pretend they are pious and love Jesus, but their actions are all about hatred, pushing their beliefs on to others and trying to deny rights to others.
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One of the ways Donald Trump’s budget claims to balance the budget over a decade, without cutting defense or retirement spending, is to assume a $2 trillion increase in revenue through economic growth. This is the magic of the still-to-be-designed Trump tax cuts. But wait — if you recall, the magic of the Trump tax cuts is also supposed to pay for the Trump tax cuts. So the $2 trillion is a double-counting error.
