2bltap Loc: Move to the Mainland

Actually I have a question about what was said during this interview. What is the diffference between contempt and criminal contempt. Please educate this Marine here. It seems to me that holder was chrged with contempt but he is still out there flapping gums and threating President Trump. A little help here. Thank you. Gotta go wash dishes now and a few other chores I dont allow my hard loving Wife to do.
Semper Fi

https://youtu.be/YjQGxwR30yc

Weasel Loc: In the Great State Of Indiana!!

Well Surprise, Surprise, Mr Rosenstien, & Nigholder.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Anyone can be contemptuous of any other person. For instance I hold rumitoid and Steve700 in contempt and I have stopped responding to anything they post. People who hold Trump in contempt are expressing their free speech opinion and can do so freely under our constitution. Criminal contempt is the proverbial horse of another color.

" 45-7-309. Criminal contempt. (1) A person commits the offense of criminal contempt when the person knowingly engages in any of the following conduct:
(a) disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior committed during the sitting of a court in its immediate view and presence and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings or to impair the respect due to its authority;
(b) breach of the peace, noise, or other disturbance directly tending to interrupt a court's proceeding;
(c) purposely disobeying or refusing any lawful process or other mandate of a court;
(d) unlawfully refusing to be sworn as a witness in any court proceeding or, after being sworn, refusing to answer any legal and proper interrogatory;
(e) purposely publishing a false or grossly inaccurate report of a court's proceeding;
(f) purposely failing to obey any mandate, process, or notice relative to juries issued pursuant to Title 3, chapter 15; or
(g) purposely failing to comply with the requirements of the 24/7 sobriety and drug monitoring program provided for in Title 44, chapter 4, part 12, if ordered by a court to participate in the program.
(2) A person convicted of the offense of criminal contempt shall be fined not to exceed $500 or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not to exceed 6 months, or both."

You will note that all of these circumstances involve a court of law, a sitting court. Only two are external to that sittiing court, publishing a lie about what the court's procedings were or refusing to obey a court order. These forms of contempt are criminal behavior because they directly attack the rule of law.

Once that judge is not sitting in court session, he is fair game and any contemptuous opinions may be expressed about him and they are then simple contempt. Free speech rules, as long as there is no slander or libel and that is also not criminal, but must be addressed by lawsuit in a civil court.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Finally got the link to work:
Two thoughts, the opening was a strong statement by Trump that he can do anything he wants with the Justice department and an equally strong "no he can't" from some members of congress. This was immediately buried in obfuscation about dossiers and other issues. The t***h is that there was no provision made in the Constitution for the office of Attorney General. An attorney was appointed by George Washington to assist him in legal matters, pertaining to the operations of government. It was not an investigative arm or a strictly prosecutorial group. It has morphed into this but the AG is still appointed by the President and presumably remains under his control.

The other issues brought up such as the refusal to turn over requested documents to Congressional committees or bribing a member of Congress constitutes criminal contempt and was treated as such from the 1790's. This was upheld in Supreme Court Decisions in 1821 and finally in 1857 a specific law was passed making Contempt of Congress a criminal offense.

"In Anderson v. Dunn (1821),[1] the Supreme Court of the United States held that Congress' power to hold someone in contempt was essential to ensure that Congress was "... not exposed to every indignity and interruption that rudeness, caprice, or even conspiracy, may mediate against it." The historical interpretation that bribery of a senator or representative was considered contempt of Congress has long since been abandoned in favor of criminal statutes. In 1857, Congress enacted a law, which made "contempt of Congress" a criminal offense against the United States.

The last time Congress arrested and detained a witness was in 1935. Since then, it has instead referred cases to the United States Department of Justice. The Office of Legal Counsel has asserted that the President of the United States is protected from contempt by executive privilege."

You can see what constitutes Contempt of Congress at this Wiki site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress

I wish there had been more discussion of Trump's assertion because I believe it will come down to his taking a meat axe to the DOJ and it would be good to establish his authority prior to doing that.