Things seem to be unfolding rather quickly. Former White House aides and advisors are scrambling to cover themselves as they receive subpoenas to appear and produce documents.
It’s rare when lawyers — as opposed to their clients — take the Fifth Amendment. But Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department lawyer who reportedly tried to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election, is now claiming the privilege against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He has just been joined in that posture by one of Trump’s main outside legal advisers, John Eastman.
The lawsuit comes after the committee signaled it would pursue a criminal contempt referral against Meadows because of his refusal to sit for a deposition in the investigation into the Capitol riot. Meadows alleges that the subpoenas are "overly broad and unduly burdensome," while claiming that the committee "lacks lawful authority to seek and to obtain" the information requested.
And apparently Mark Meadows had a power point outlining how to overturn election results.
The 38-page presentation, entitled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 Jan," is dated one day before the Capitol riot. It's believed to have been submitted by Meadows after he was subpoenaed by the panel in connection with the insurrection.
It's not that a lot are speaking out, it's that he said out loud what a lot aren't willing to risk saying but apparently are thinking.
Sure. We should just accept Chris Christie's assessment that it's "a lot" even though there's not really evidence that there's "a lot" of republicans thinking that way. Maybe by "a lot" folks like Christie mean a few powerless elected officials too afraid to speak up because they are marginalized and shamed in their state or regional caucus.
Sure. We should just accept Chris Christie's assessment that it's "a lot" even though there's not really evidence that there's "a lot" of republicans thinking that way. Maybe by "a lot" folks like Christie mean a few powerless elected officials too afraid to speak up because they are marginalized and shamed in their state or regional caucus.
CNN is the one that said he said what a lot of Republicans are thinking. Maybe the reporter knows a lot of people are thinking and not saying it? Or maybe it's just an educated guess based on Republicans in general having some common sense. But CNN also said in that article "it's notable that Christie is in the decided minority within his party when it comes to acknowledging the facts of what happened on January 6 and why."
The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection subpoenaed six more people Tuesday, including former Trump campaign members and state lawmakers, as it further expands its review into efforts to falsely declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election in several swing states.
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“The Select Committee is seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election,” Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee’s Democratic chairman, said in a statement. “We’re seeking records and testimony from former campaign officials and other individuals in various states who we believe have relevant information about the planning and implementation of those plans.”
I wonder how many of these people will actually testify? I still think Giuliani was behind this, trying to upset the electoral count with fake electors.
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I always learn something new listening to Barb McQuade ( Univ. Mich Law Professor, former US Attorney, national security prosecutor at Eastern District Michigan DOJ ) when she appears on MSNBC shows or on the#SistersInLaw podcasts. Found this article she wrote at George Conway3rd's Twitter feed. Never seen a "Model = possible prosecution outline" how former President Trump could be prosecuted for pressuring VP Pence to overturn Electoral Vote count. Wonder if Jan 6th committee will use to send to DOJ.
If DOJ were considering charging Trump, here’s what a prosecution memo might look like. I wrote this based on public info, focused solely on Trump’s efforts to pressure Pence to overturn the election. The only thing riskier than charging is not charging.
"Prosecution memos are prepared by attorneys in criminal cases at the Department of Justice to summarize the evidence and their legal theories for prosecution. Prosecution memos enable supervisors and others in the chain of command to review the evidence, anticipate defenses, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of a criminal prosecution.
While facts are still being uncovered, public reporting and some of the evidence obtained by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol show a relentless campaign to coerce Pence into helping Trump retain the presidency. This effort may have been only one of many schemes within a larger strategy to overturn the election.
Looking solely at this aspect of the strategy, at least two federal criminal statutes may have been violated in this episode alone: conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding. Depending on the facts that emerge, other statutes may also have been violated, such as the federal voter fraud statute and seditious conspiracy. Publicly available information also indicates potential violations of state law. This report focuses solely on potential violations of federal law."....
I always learn something new listening to Barb McQuade ( Univ. Mich Law Professor, former US Attorney, national security prosecutor at Eastern District Michigan DOJ ) when she appears on MSNBC shows or on the#SistersInLaw podcasts. Found this article she wrote at George Conway3rd's Twitter feed. Never seen a "Model = possible prosecution outline" how former President Trump could be prosecuted for pressuring VP Pence to overturn Electoral Vote count. Wonder if Jan 6th committee will use to send to DOJ.
It's discouraging that theres so little evidence that accountability and justice for powerful men is a priority in our culture. It's likely that this flows, at some level, from the pardoning of Nixon.
Donald Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani is expected to cooperate with the House select committee investigating January 6, and potentially reveal his contacts with Republican members of Congress involved in the former president’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The move by Giuliani to appear before the panel – in a cooperation deal that could be agreed within weeks, according to two sources briefed on negotiations – could mark a breakthrough moment for the inquiry as it seeks to interview key members of Trump’s inner circle.
That is the case because even though Trump’s allies and Republican members of Congress already known to have been involved in such efforts have refused to help the panel, Giuliani is now in a position to inform House investigators about any possible culpability.
Broadly, Giuliani has indicated through his lawyer to the select committee that he will produce documents and answer questions about Trump’s schemes to return himself to office on 6 January that House investigators had outlined in a subpoena issued to him last month.
Well, at least this bozo got Covid while in jail. With the research going on now about the ACE 2 receptors in the testicles, maybe Covid just another factor in culling the intellectually weaker people from the population so that less men will have to be jailed with their own progeny:)
A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has become the first to admit to engaging in seditious conspiracy to keep President Biden from taking office on Jan. 6, 2021.
Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Ala., pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington on Wednesday to helping lead a group that prosecutors say sent two tactically equipped teams into the Capitol and organized a cache of weapons in a hotel just outside the city. He also pleaded to one count of obstructing an official proceeding, and he may face the stiffest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant so far, according to preliminary sentencing guidelines.
John Eastman JD ( former Chapman University law school Dean and professor) turned over 8,000 emails to committee but withheld other 11,000 emails claiming attorney client privilege and "work product". He famously wrote the memo to the Trump legal team calling the vice president "the ultimate arbiter" of the election and actions to take to stop the vote confirmation. Expect the committee to succeed in obtaining emails withheld from the committee with proof of collusion between Trump and him.
...In the 61-page court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for the House wrote: "Evidence and information available to the Committee establishes a good-faith belief that Mr. Trump and others may have engaged in criminal and/or fraudulent acts, and that Plaintiff's legal assistance was used in furtherance of those activities.",,,
To make its case, the House pointed to Trump's actions to overturn the election, arguing he was criminally attempting to obstruct Congress from certifying his loss of the presidency.
"The President called and met with state officials, met numerous times with officials in the Department of Justice, tweeted and spoke about these issues publicly, and engaged in a personal campaign to persuade the public that the election had been tainted by widespread fraud," lawyers for the House wrote.
"The evidence supports an inference that President Trump and members of his campaign knew he had not won enough legitimate state electoral votes to be declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election during the January 6 Joint Session of Congress, but the President nevertheless sought to use the Vice President to manipulate the results in his favor."....
Committee is arguing that because Trump and Eastmans actions were part of a crime, client-privlege null and void.
John Eastman JD ( former Chapman University law school Dean and professor) turned over 8,000 emails to committee but withheld other 11,000 emails claiming attorney client privilege and "work product". He famously wrote the memo to the Trump legal team calling the vice president "the ultimate arbiter" of the election and actions to take to stop the vote confirmation. Expect the committee to succeed in obtaining emails withheld from the committee with proof of collusion between Trump and him.
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It's not that a lot are speaking out, it's that he said out loud what a lot aren't willing to risk saying but apparently are thinking.