11/17/21, 12:06 PM Tip Line | Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
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Chairman Thompson is interested in any information regarding the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. We respect your need to remain confidential and will use your contact information only to follow up with you regarding your submission.
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Dear BENNIE G.
THOMPSON, ZOE LOFGREN, ELAINE LURIA, ADAM
SCHIFF, PETE AGUILAR, STEPHANIE MURPHY, JAMIE
RASKIN, LIZ CHENEY, ADAM KINZINGER. As honorable
members “In Training” for the Select Committee Investigating the January
6th Attack on the United States Capitol, please find below the syllabus
for this week’s “Contempt of Congress 101” study guide. “We the People”
feel that once this membership successfully completes this training course, and
not until then, as then and only then will this committee have the necessary
background to make a worthwhile investigation. Please study this “syllabus” and
render an “opine” with details on how it could be used in your upcoming
investigation, wherein subpoenas may be required but those served ignore such
valid motions. Please deliver your answer by December 1st, this
year. It is hoped that the membership completes and passes the “bar” provided
through this critical training, that which is required for this investigation
so that come the New Year an investigation can commence in earnest without opposing
stonewalling, wherein we hope the guesswork in the need of subpoenas ignored has
been so learned. Any questions, contact your mentor.
McGRAIN, Deputy Sergent at Arms of the United States Senate,
v.
DAUGHERTY.
No.
28.
Argued
Dec. 5, 1924.
Decided
Jan. 17, 1927.
Mr. Justice VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.
1
This is an appeal from the final order in a proceeding in habeas
corpus discharging a recusant witness held in custody under process of
attachment issued from the United States Senate in the course of an
investigation which it was making of the administration of the Department of
Justice. A full statement of the case is necessary.
6
In the course of the investigation the committee issued and
caused to be duly served on Mally S. Daugherty-who was a brother of Harry M.
Daugherty and president of the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House,
Ohio-a subpoena commanding him to appear before the committee for the purpose
of giving testimony bearing on the subject under investigation, and to bring
with him the 'deposit ledgers of the Midland National Bank since November 1,
1920; also note files and transcript of owners of every safety vault; also
records of income drafts; also records of any individual account or accounts
showing withdrawals of amounts of $25,000 or over during above period.' The
witness failed to appear.
9
'Whereas, the appearance and testimony of the said M. S.
Daugherty is material and necessary in order that the committee may properly
execute the functions imposed upon it and may obtain information necessary as a
basis for such legislative and other action as the Senate may deem necessary
and proper: Therefore be it
10
'Resolved, that the president of the Senate pro tempore issue
his warrant commanding the sergeant at arms or his deputy to take into custody
the body of the said M. S. Daugherty wherever found, and to bring the said M.
S. Daugherty before the bar of the Senate, then and there to answer such
questions pertinent to the matter under inquiry as the Senate may order the
President of the Senate pro tempore to propound, and to keep the said M. S.
Daugherty in custody to await the further order of the Senate.'
11
It will be observed from the terms of the resolution that the
warrant was to be issued in furtherance of the effort be obtain the personal
testimony of the witness, and, like the second subpoena, was not intended to
exact from him the production of the various records, books, and papers named
in the first subpoena.
12
The warrant was issued agreeably to the resolution and was
addressed simply to the sergeant at arms. That officer, on receiving the
warrant, indorsed thereon a direction that it be executed by John J. McGrain,
already his deputy, and delivered it to him for execution.
13
The deputy, proceeding under the warrant, took the witness into
custody at Cincinnati, Ohio, with the purpose of bringing him before the bar of
the Senate as commanded, whereupon the witness petitioned the federal District
Court in Cincinnati for a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was granted and the
deputy made due return, setting forth the warrant and the cause of the
detention. After a hearing the court held the attachment and detention unlawful
and discharged the witness, the decision being put on the ground that the
Senate, in directing the investigation and in ordering the attachment, exceeded
its powers under the Constitution. 299 F. 620. The deputy prayed and was
allowed a direct appeal to this court under section 238 of the Judicial Code
(Comp. St. § 1215) as then existing.
75
We conclude that the investigation was ordered for a legitimate
object; that the witness wrongfully refused to appear and testify before the
committee and was lawfully attached; that the Senate is entitled to have him
give testimony pertinent to the inquiry, either at its bar or before the
committee; and that the district court erred in discharging him from custody
under the attachment.
84
What has been said requires that the final order in the district
court discharging the witness from custody be reversed.
85
Final order reversed.
~ END of Training
Syllabus ~
11/17/21, 12:08 PM Tip Line - Thank You | Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
TIP LINE - THANK YOU
Dear Constituent,
Thank you for contacting the
Select Committee and sharing information regarding the January 6th attack on
the United State’s Capitol.
The Select Committee has
received your submission and is prepared to follow up on the information you
provided as appropriate. We respect your need to remain confidential
and will use your contact information only to follow up with you regarding your
submission, unless we determine disclosure is required.
Sincerely, Bennie G. Thompson Chairman
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