Constitutional Law

Gunwalker probe escalates

Rep. Darrella Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight, has issued a subpoena, after informal requests for documents had no effect. This makes it more of a showdown: if a subpoena isn't complied with, he can move (I think it takes a majority of the entire House) to hold the recipients in contempt of Congress, so that enforcement can then become holding them behind bars until the deliver the documents. Even if that doesn't happen, the floor fight over the contempt charge will bring a lot of attention.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on April 01, 2011 (boomark / email).