text:  I've got to ask, because people ask me this question, and I have only very unsatisfying answers to give. Steve Bannon is trying to avoid prison in a matter of days now, based on a contempt of Congress charge. It seems, and this is the question that I get, that when Republicans in Congress want to subpoena somebody, it gets ignored and nothing happens. But when Democrats want to subpoena somebody in the Congress, or from Congress subpoena somebody, people go to prison.