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All the Presidents' Lawyers

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Contempt of Congress - What's the Point?

The idea is to deter contempt of congress byby judicially punishing people who act in contempt of congress, exactly. So the're different types of contempt. One is civil contempt, which is generally, like you said, coercive. Criminal contempt is punitive and deterrent. It's to punish some one for a contempt they've completed and to deter other people from doing it. You can't discharge it by changing your mind and a go ahead and do the thing you were demanded to do,. Although the prosecutor may decide at that point to drop charges. No court has explicitly endorsed it, generally. When this issue came up during the conflicts during the trump administration, the courts cind have dodged the

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