The Fifth Amendment “doesn’t have the same level of protection” when it comes to documents, Bussert said. Documents are similarly a form of past behavior to which the Fifth Amendment doesn’t apply. The risk to Flynn is that the Senate committee demanding the documents could vote to hold him in contempt. — a Senate contempt charge is fairly low. Update: Two readers emailed to note an exception to the idea that the Fifth Amendment wouldn’t protect an individual from turning over documents.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2017 15:47 UTC