McGrain v. Daugherty

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a Congressional committee can investigate the failure United States Attorney General to prosecute
• concluding that “[t]he only legitimate object the Senate could have in ordering the investigation was to aid it in legislating, and we think the subject-matter was such that the presumption should be indulged that this was the real object”
• noting that “[a]n express avowal of the object” of an investigation would aid the courts in reviewing the Senate’s purpose
• stating that “the subject” of investigation “was one on which legislation could be had”
• stating that “the subject” of investigation “was one on which legislation could be had”
• affirming the Senate’s right to enforce its power of inquiry by subpoenaing witnesses for information relevant to its legislative concerns

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).