Hillary Clinton was a no-show for a scheduled House Oversight Committee deposition on Wednesday related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. On Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton did the same. House Committee Chair James Comer said that Congress plans to “hold both Clintons in criminal contempt of Congress.” What does that mean? Well it could mean that a court compels them to testify or that they are referred to the Justice Department for criminal charges. It could also mean jail time if Congress has the stomach to enforce this. Last summer, the House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas to the Clintons as well as former Attorneys General Merrick Garland, Jeff Sessions, William Barr, as well as former FBI Directors James Comey, Robert Mueller and others. This list includes Republicans and Democrats both. Importantly, the subcommittee vote that led to the subpoenas had bipartisan support. Meaning Democrats voted to do it alongside Republicans. This was not a partisan exercise. The Clintons argue that other subpoena recipients also failed to appear. But there is an important distinction. While several officials responded through lawyers or provided documents, only Bill and Hillary Clinton skipped scheduled depositions outright, placing them in a different category of noncompliance. The real test here isn’t whether Congress can issue subpoenas. It’s whether it is willing to enforce them when the people ignoring them are powerful, well-connected, and historically untouchable. The post The Clintons Skip Epstein Depositions as Congress Weighs Contempt appeared first on Redacted.