Ken Mac
Platinum Member
There is more than enough precedent to follow.Subpoenas must be valid. They were challenged as being invalid due to the fact Nazi Pelousy didn't hold the required vote to initiate impeachment proceedings prior to them being issued.You are lying again. They didn't make a claim of blanket executive immunity.
The subpoenas were challenged on the basis they were invalid due to the refusal of Nazi Pelousy to hold a vote to initiate impeachment proceedings.
That lie won't fly. Get a new one.
The Executive Branch has no standing in the process the House uses to initiate impeachment proceeding and the argument lacks merit. Witnesses can choose to plead the 5th and the Executive can claim privileged over specific answers and documents.
You really are thick.
There is no such requirement in the Constitution regarding impeachment.
There is more than enough precedent to follow. Nance used the Judicial committee because they had very few rules for subpoenas. The oversight committee is the proper committee for an impeachment inquiry. They have "OVERSIGHT" of the executive branch. That is their sole job. Why don't you go out and do some more reading. Nancy subverted previous precedent and used the wrong committee because she didn't want to deal with courts and hurry the process along. WTFU.
The precedent use to be the full House had to vote to authorize any committee, including an impeachment inquiry, to have subpoena power. That precedent was changed in 2015, by Republicans wanting to fast track the continuing investigations into Obama. There is no specific committee that the Constitution delegate the Impeachment authority to. The Constitution gives the House the Sole Power or Impeachment.
That is correct. But each committee establishes it's own requirements for subpoenas. The rules for subpoenas on the Oversight committee are more limited in power than the Judiciary Committee. This is Nancy's subversion. She used the wrong committee cuz she wanted full subpoena power.
Please read again, you seem to not be picking up what I'm putting down.