Today: Day 10 of January 6 Select Committee
January 6, 2021, will go down in the history books as the day American supporters of the outgoing Republican President of the United States attacked the U.S. Capitol. It has been almost two years since that violent riot that vandalized the nation’s historic building, resulting in serious injuries, trauma, and death for Capitol and Metropolitan police officers, and trauma for the elected officials and staffers they were protecting, who went into hiding to avoid the rampaging hoards.
Today. Monday, January 19, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. On what is expected to be the last public hearing of the Congressional Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, Politico wrote:
The panel has long contended Trump broke the law in service of his bid to seize a second term despite losing the 2020 election. But the new report is expected to add vivid new details of that effort, particularly about the cast of enablers that facilitated Trump’s gambit — from Republican members of Congress to a team of lawyers pushing fringe theories to shadowy operatives awash in conspiracy theories. The panel also plans to formally adopt a conclusion that Trump violated the criminal insurrection statute by providing “aid and comfort” to the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Politico notes the committee is expected to vote to refer three criminal charges to the Justice Department against former President Donald Trump: inciting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Today’s hearing will be carried live on most cable and news outlets and streamed online.
Background:
-PBS: The Jan. 6 insurrection, 1 year later | PBS NewsHour presents – YouTube
-Politico: Jan. 6 committee prepares to deliver its judgment on Donald Trump
-Washington Post: Jan. 6 committee to vote on referring Trump for criminal charges
-Washington Post: What the Jan. 6 committee’s criminal referrals mean
-CBS News: How to watch the House Jan. 6 committee vote on criminal referrals at final meeting
-CNN: A guide to the January 6 committee’s big week
-CNN: January 6: Schiff says panel is considering how to handle uncooperative GOP lawmakers
-NPR: Politics chat: January 6 committee will take up criminal referral against Trump
-Bearing Drift: January 6 Was An Attempted Coup
-Bearing Drift: Olson: One Year After January 6 Capitol Riot, Recounts Still Show Joe Biden Won
-Bearing Drift: January 6, One Year Later
-Bearing Drift: The Danger of Ignoring the 1/6 Capitol Attack – Update
-Letters From an American: December 18, 2022 – by Heather Cox Richardson
