Re: House committee ditches SAFE for law enforcement version

[Bill Sommerfeld]

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one possible escape clause here is a constitutional provision
regarding immunity of legislators for acts in congress:

[from article 1, section 6]

".. for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be
questioned in any other place."

.. so, as I read it, the only entity capable of enforcing the gag
order (i.e., preventing a legislator from repeating what he heard in
the closed briefing in a subsequent open legislative session) is the
congress itself, and that, likely, only after the fact.

But then again, i'm not a lawyer, and I'm also not sure how this
provision has been interpreted in the past..

                                                - Bill