Contempt Power in the United States

Judicial Contempt Power

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled CONTEMPT POWER, JUDICIAL Contempt is an ancient process for punishing disrespect for, disruption of, or disobedience of a lawful order of the government. For centuries in England and the United States the process was essentially unregulated. Individual judges and legislative houses defined
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