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Does anyone here have a legal background or understand this better that could explain it to me? I am curious how the whole congressional hearings thing and the whole proceedings actually work?

Why are the baseball players forced to testify in the very first place? Under what part of consitutional law forces them to appear when they have not been specifically charged with any crime? ...and it also seems that they were forced to testify against themselves, and if they did not reveal whole truths, they are then able to be charged with perjury?

is this a correct summation of the situation? how did the government ever get some heinous powers to force someone to go to a hearing, and also testify potentially against themselves, when no actual arrest for a crime has occured?

I can understand a simple case, if someone is caught in possession of a drug that is illegal, then they are charged and defend themselves in court, but this whole baseball fiasco seems to me like the government is way out of control and stepping on all sorts of rights, no actual chargeable crime seems to have been committed until they have created crimes by the actual proceedings themselves?

any thoughts from legal experts?

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