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When Chairman James Comer announced that former President Bill Clinton failed to appear for his January 13, 2026 deposition — and that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton likewise refused to appear for her January 14, 2026 deposition — hardworking Americans smelled something rotten in Washington. Comer didn’t blink: he scheduled a full committee markup for January 21, 2026 to consider resolutions holding both Clintons in contempt of Congress. The message should be simple and unambiguous — subpoenas are not optional.
For years the public has been promised transparency about Jeffrey Epstein’s network, but too often the powerful get polite letters and polite refusals instead of answers. The Clintons’ decision to challenge subpoenas as “invalid” looks less like a legal posture and more like the old Washington playbook: delay, obfuscate, and hope time buries inconvenient questions. Ordinary citizens who obey the law can see what this really is — privilege and protection for the connected.
This investigation didn’t spring up overnight: lawmakers on the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee voted unanimously on July 23, 2025 to issue subpoenas to key figures, and Chairman Comer formally issued those subpoenas on August 5, 2025. After months of negotiations and offered accommodations, the committee set the January deposition dates and the Clintons still declined to cooperate. Those are concrete dates and concrete refusals — not the fog of partisanship the left will try to sell.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice and other institutions have been less than forthcoming about Epstein files, fueling distrust across the political spectrum. If career bureaucrats are slow-walking records while former presidents and secretaries of state dodge testimony, the result is predictable: a crisis of confidence in our institutions. Conservatives have been saying for years that equal justice under law means everyone, regardless of status, answers to the same standards.
Democrats who howl about subpoenas when it’s their political enemies but circle the wagons for their own are showing raw hypocrisy. If accountability applies only to one side, the system itself becomes the scandal. Republicans pursuing sworn testimony are not conducting a vendetta — they are doing what voters sent them to the Hill to do: seek truth and hold powerful people to account.
Chairman Comer’s move to hold the Clintons in contempt on January 21, 2026 is the correct constitutional step when witnesses refuse to comply with lawful subpoenas. A contempt referral forces the issue into the courts or to the Justice Department, where some form of adjudication — not press releases or talking points — must finally answer the questions victims and the American people deserve to have resolved. This isn’t about political theater; it’s about the rule of law.
If Democrats try to sweep this under the rug, they’ll reveal their priorities: preserving elites over protecting victims. Patriots who love this country know that no one should be above the law, and we should applaud members of Congress who are willing to take the institutional heat to enforce that principle. The coming week will be a test of whether Washington still answers to the people or to a permissive establishment that thinks fame and connections buy immunity.
