Oh it needs fixing.
But that doesn’t mean you run with the part that needs fixing. Rather than the fix that already exists, loaded with potential conflicts as it may be.
This also doesn’t need to take weeks, after they get get their shit together for a vote anyway. They could have referred it to the DOJ same day.
Court contempt orders absolutely do take weeks. If the person in question is not physically standing in the court. Likewise subpoenas are issued, they have to be served and executed. Then the person responds, it’s only at that point that a contempt finding might kick off.
None of this is instant.
Ultimately Congress is not a legal body. And the purpose of Contempt is not to punish people, it’s to compel compliance. An escalating series of orders and consequences. Half of what they’re probably doing is trying to reassert the validity of Congressional Subpoenas, against some one who was core to undermining them in the first place.
Inherent Contempt isn’t something different from that. No one can snap their fingers and send out the Sargent at Arms. You probably need a shit ton of procedural shit just figure out a modern how, and you’d probably end up with some controversial floor votes.
While the GOP shrieks about Nancy Pelosi’s jack booted thugs. And militias get a hard on.
