Hunter Biden has insisted that he will only testify to the House if it’s in public. But in a letter sent to his attorney Wednesday, top Republicans told him that their subpoena for a closed-door deposition on Dec. 13 is non-negotiable.
Sorry, we will only let you testify in secret so we can release sound bites designed to hurt you father politically. - House GOP
I wonder what they would do if he secretly recorded it?
Some democratic Congress folks could pull a page from the Republican playbook and just walk in with their cell phones live streaming. Except that they’re not childish idiots.
I don’t think that’s childish idiocy at all, not in this case. They are deliberately hiding the session so they can lie about what was said to smear Joe Biden.
Washington DC has a “one-party consent” recording law. That means only one party in a conversation has to consent before recording a conversation is legal. In this case, Hunter Biden is “a party” who can consent, so can secretly and legally record.
https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/district-columbia-recording-law
Obligatory: I am not a lawyer.
And yes, I’m sure there are different rules/laws for “official government business” as well.
Would whatever chambers they are in fall within the scope of this law though?
Very good question
I don’t know. D.C. is a 1-party consent state. As long as one party in a conversation consents, isn’t is legal to record it. On the other hand, secretly recording a government proceeding has to be some sort of crime.
So secretly record the proceedings. If shit goes sideways, dump the recording on TPB/PeerTube, just somewhere it can’t ever go away. He might get into trouble, but the public at least knows what transpired.
finally the big problems are being addressed
Hunter-Biden-Dick Energy move: send it back to the Judiciary committee, except cross out every instance of Hunter Biden’s name and write-in “Jim Jordan.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The House Judiciary Committee will mark up a resolution next week to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena by failing to appear for a deposition.
Biden attorney Abbe Lowell in a statement on Friday accused the Republican committee chairs of continuing “to play politics by seeking an unprecedented contempt motion against someone who has from the first request offered to answer all their proper questions.
While a public rebuke of a sitting president’s son in itself would be extraordinary, a contempt of Congress resolution largely serves as a recommendation to the Justice Department, which can choose whether to bring charges.
But in his press conference on the Senate lawn, he nodded to an offer by House Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), who prior to the subpoena said he would “drop everything” if Biden wanted to testify publicly, and accused the GOP of reneging on that claim.
Not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not my investment at all nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist,” he said, running through a number of key aspects of the GOP probes.
“Hunter Biden’s willful refusal to comply with our subpoenas constitutes contempt of Congress and warrants referral to the appropriate United States Attorney’s Office for prosecution.
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There isn’t some way to house Democrats to hold an open deposition, without the cooperation of Republicans?
Republicans are in control. So not without their help.
I’m just here so I won’t get fined!
