Sunday, May 15, 2022

Guessing that Andy Biggs will ignore his subpoena

...but that's just a guess.


On one hand, he faces possible criminal contempt charges if he chooses to ignore the subpoena from the Congressional committee investigating the insurrection of January 6, 2021.


From The Hill (emphasis added by me)-

Subpoenaed GOP lawmakers face risk of criminal contempt

The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol is leaving open all enforcement options — including criminal contempt — for subpoenaed GOP lawmakers who refuse to cooperate in the probe.

The select committee has already held two former Trump administration officials in criminal contempt — former adviser Stephen Bannon and former chief of staff Mark Meadows — for spurning the panel’s formal summons to testify. 

[snip]

The subpoenas target five GOP lawmakers: Reps. McCarthy, Jim Jordan (Ohio), Scott Perry (Pa.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (Ala.). All of them are close allies of former President Trump who have promoted the lie that Trump won the 2020 election. All of them also have unique insights into the former White House’s effort to thwart Congress’s certification of Biden’s victory. And they’ve all refused to cooperate in the investigation voluntarily.

On the other hand, Biggs seems rather, well, "contemptuous", of the subpoena he received and of the committee itself. (Yes, I realize that the term has a specific legal meaning in this context, but I'm using it in the real world, not the legal, sense.)


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I wrote about the subpoena a few days ago, as did AZBlueMeanie at Blog for Arizona.

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