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Newsweek Reporter: Congress Could Arrest Harriet Miers



Michale Isikoff of Newsweek was on The Young Turks on Friday. He explained that Congress could order the Sergeant at Arms to arrest Harriet Miers for contempt of Congress. They don't need the executive branch to do this. It's in the constitution.

Here's the transcript:

Michael Isikoff: There is, very quickly, another option. There's something called inherent contempt where they can enforce contempt themselves. They can have the Sergeant at Arms arrest Harriet Miers in the state of Texas and bring her to Washington for trial before the House, and incarcerate her. That's an option that hasn't been used for years. But it is a Constitutional option.

You can watch the whole interview here.

By the way, they could also do this Karl Rove who will also be in contempt of Congress when he tries to use executive privilege to avoid testifying about the US Attorneys scandal.

How bad ass would it be if the Sergeant at Arms showed up to the White House, handcuffed Karl Rove and led him out the front door? Contempt of Congress, it is a bitch.

Of course, the Democrats would never have the balls to use this option. Oh well, that's the world we live in.

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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.

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