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, the president…
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
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.
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.
Fuck them.
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.