Synonyms for criminal contempt
crim·inal con·tempt

Princeton's WordNet

1. criminal contemptnoun

   an act of disrespect that impedes the administration of justice

Matched Categories

1. • Contempt Of Court
   • Law

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1. Jerry Nadler:

   I see no need to resort to the criminal contempt statute to enforce our April 19 subpoena, at least for now, so long as Justice Department upholds Justice Department end of the bargain, but our arrangement with Justice Department does not extend to the full scope of our request for the full Mueller report and its underlying materials, including grand jury information, nor does it extend to our demand that Don McGahn, Don McGahn, testify before Judiciary Committee.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   The full House will vote on a resolution of criminal contempt for Attorney General Barr and Secretary Ross so we can enforce our subpoenas and get the facts.

3. Adam Schiff:

   I think we are completely of one mind that if people refuse to respond to questions, refuse to produce documents without justification, that we will hold them in criminal contempt and refer them to the Trump Justice Department, and unlike the last four years we expect Trump Justice Department to adhere to the principle that no one's above the law.

4. Chief Justice John Roberts:

   Anyone else interested in talking will be admonished that it's within the authority of this court to punish such disturbances by criminal contempt, should do it.

5. Hakeem Jeffries:

   We began to see yesterday, in the face of the possibility of either a criminal contempt citation or proceeding with inherent contempt that they began to see things differently all of a sudden.