When your best defense is saying, it's a political witch hunt, you're fucked.

[fightforfreedom]

Lindsey is now using that defense.

[leftieNanner]

1. I don't care who you are

You can't just blow off a Grand Jury subpoena.

I guess he's going to go to court to fight it. But he will lose.

Delay, delay, delay. That is their plan.

[gab13by13]

3. Mark Meadows did.

[dpibel]

6. Don't think that was a grand jury

Pretty sure what Meadows blew off was a subpoena from the J6 committee.

Different breed of cat.

Courts are pretty good at making their subpoenae work.

[gab13by13]

7. Why is it a different breed of cat?

Merrick Garland could have indicted Meadows for ignoring the subpoena, but he chose not to.

[dpibel]

8. But Congress can't enforce its own subpoena

Congress has no ability (other than the possibility of inherent contempt) to enforce a subpoena. It can ask the AG to enforce, and, as demonstrated by the Meadows case, the AG may or may not.

A court, OTOH, has at its immediate disposal the constabulary and the jail. A judge can instruct the bailiff to march you straight from the courtroom to a cell if you're sufficiently contemptuous.

IOW, a one-step process for a judicial subpoena; a two-step one for Congressional.

There are assuredly complexities in the Graham subpoena, not least of which is how much compulsion a court can exercise over a nonresident witness. I don't know the answer to that.

[pamdb]

4. subpoena

Sure you can, republicans do it all the time.

[Caliman73]

2. It depends on the audience you want to hear it.

Sure, Graham may be in legal trouble. He will likely be in political trouble too as he will need to decide if he will flip on Trump and face backlash from his own base, or suffer some legal consequence.

He is trying to season the base against any actions against him. He is simply doing what most conservatives do. He is playing the referees. By saying something is a political witch hunt, or biased, or partisan, you try to inure your supporters so that they accept that there is no merit to the legal proceedings. You use their bias to your benefit because they already want to believe they are backing the honorable person.

It won't necessarily stop the legal action, but it could pressure the prosecutors if the pressure builds enough.

[Srkdqltr]

5. Seems like they are finding the witches. Or warlocks as the gender may be.