WTF?
Another fine graduate of the Trump U. law school correspondence course?
IF the supreme court backs?..........................They already have moron, in 1952.
The House used its investigatory privileges in the
First Congress (1789–1791).
Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, the superintendent of finances during the Continental Congress and a financier of the American Revolution, asked Congress in 1790 to investigate his handling of the country’s finances in order to clear his name of potential impropriety.
The House referred Morris’s request to a select committee, setting a precedent for future investigations, while the Senate had President
George Washington appoint special commissioners and report back to that body. Representative
James Madison of Virginia said that the “House should possess itself of the fullest information in order to doing justice to the country and to public officers.”
The House has compelled the attendance of witnesses since 1795, when it investigated an attempt to bribe Members. Indeed, early cases of congressional subpoena and contempt powers focused on the abuse or discredit of the House itself. Robert Randall, a real estate speculator, had tried to purchase what is now Michigan from the federal government and share the proceeds with Members of Congress who approved the sale. As a result, Randall was the first individual held in contempt of Congress. The House
Sergeant-at-Arms was authorized to arrest him and bring him before the House, where he was reprimanded and placed in a local jail for a week.