Barry v. United States Ex Rel. Cunningham

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the proceedings of the houses of Congress, when acting upon matters within their constitutional authority” are entitled to a “presumption in favor of regularity”
• holding United States Senate’s power to issue arrest warrant to be “subject only to the restraints imposed by or found in the implications of the Constitution”
• holding United States Senate's power to issue arrest warrant to be \subject only to the restraints imposed by or found in the implications of the Constitution\
• considering the federal power to detain a material witness and determining a material witness may be confined “for the purpose of giving his testimony”
• considering the federal power to detain a material witness and determining a material witness may be confined “for the purpose of giving his testimony”
• explaining that when senator-elect “presented himself to the Senate,” “[t]he jurisdiction of the Senate to determine the rightfulness of the claim was invoked and its power to adjudicate such right immediately attached by virtue of section 5 of article 1 of the Constitution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).