The Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved a resolution to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt for refusing to appear in the investigation into the case of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The committee voted 34 to 8 in favor of the resolution against Bill Clinton and 28 to 15 in favor of the measure against Hillary Clinton.
This is the first step in a process that requires final approval from the House of Representatives for the contempt declaration for not having appeared to testify before Congress, when the couple was summoned for appearing in several images and documents related to the case.
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The committee chairman assured that the vote demonstrates that no one is above the law and highlighted that there was bipartisan support. Some Democrats who voted in favor qualified that they want to hear the Clintons' version before the final vote.
The Clinton Defense
Bill and Hillary Clinton refused to testify before the committee, claiming that the subpoenas were invalid, legally unenforceable, and politically motivated, without a legitimate legislative purpose.
Through their lawyers, they argued that the committee was using them politically and that the process exceeded Congress's constitutional limits to investigate.
The Oversight Committee is responsible for overseeing the Government and requesting official documents, and images and documents related to the Epstein case have been released from there, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
The next step is for the House of Representatives to decide whether to refer the case to the Department of Justice for possible contempt charges.
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