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What is significant about Mark Meadows' contempt of Congress charge?

  • He's the second since Watergate

  • He's the 10th this century

  • First of the 21st century

  • He was instantly pardoned

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Mark Meadows was charged with contempt of Congress on Tuesday for defying a subpoena to testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He is the second person to be charged with contempt of Congress since the Watergate scandal in 1974. Meadows, who served as former President Donald Trump's chief of staff, has refused to cooperate with the committee's investigation, citing executive privilege.
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