House Select Committee on 1/6

[jackd]

You mean he'll claim it was cocktail party talk like Trump claims his sex bragging was just locker room talk?

[goldenvalley]

Apr 22, 2022 14:22:32 GMT jackd said:

You mean he'll claim it was cocktail party talk like Trump claims his sex bragging was just locker room talk?

It's politician locker room talk. He was telling Cheney something that he thought would shut her up about a 25th Amendment based removal of Trump and that would offer her what she wanted...that he take an action of some sort that would get Trump out of office.  

[andydp]

I swear they're already irradiating their "man packs". 

Another reason jails are full...I highlighted a part because he used the same cell phone to make calls to the FBI.  Seriously, who would be dumb enough to threaten an FBI Agent ?  That's a whole slew of new FEDERAL charges


Proud Boy sent menacing texts to FBI agent investigating Capitol riot, DOJ says


WASHINGTON — The Justice Department says a South Florida man linked to the Proud Boys sent menacing text messages to an FBI agent after learning he was being investigated in connection with the Capitol riot.

Barry Bennett Ramey was arrested Thursday morning on charges of assaulting police, engaging in physical violence on Capitol grounds, entering a restricted building and civil disorder stemming from his alleged role in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building.

During the investigation of Ramey, FBI agents in Miami allegedly learned from multiple confidential sources that Ramey was included on a master list of Proud Boys members in Southern Florida. They also determined a cellphone associated with his number had been at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6.

Then, earlier this month, according to court documents, the agent received a call on his work cell phone from a person he believed to be Ramey who asked if it was him and, cryptically, “And you still live at [your affiant’s home address]?” When the agent asked who was calling, Ramey reportedly hung up immediately.

A short time later, the agent said, he received a text message from the same number which included the VIN for a vehicle he’d previously owned. The agent then received a follow-up text reading, “Check that VIN number. .”


www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/proud-boy-sent-menacing-texts-to-fbi-agent-investigating-capitol-riot-doj-says-barry-bennett-ramey-miami-enrique-tarrio/65-97dc8037-ebb3-444c-8493-f438eb3b2e6e#:~:text=Barry%20Bennett%20Ramey%20was%20arrested%20Thursday%20morning%20on,Jan.%206%20assault%20on%20the%20U.S.%20Capitol%20Building.

[andydp]

At the last count the score on "voter fraud" court cases are 0-60 against the plaintiffs.

I guess some people have to learn the hard way:

Jurors reject array of defenses at Capitol riot trials

Jurors have heard — and rejected — an array of excuses and arguments from the first rioters to be tried for storming the U.S. Capitol. The next jury to get a Capitol riot case could hear another novel defense this week at the trial of a retired New York City police officer.

Thomas Webster, a 20-year veteran of the NYPD, has claimed he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a police officer who was trying to protect the Capitol from a mob on Jan. 6, 2021. Webster's lawyer also has argued that he was exercising his First Amendment free speech rights when he shouted profanities at police that day.

Webster, 56, will be the fourth Capitol riot defendant to get a jury trial. Each has presented a distinct line of defense.

An Ohio man who stole a coat rack from a Capitol office testified he was “following presidential orders” from Donald Trump. An off-duty police officer from Virginia claimed he only entered the Capitol to retrieve a fellow officer. A lawyer for a Texas man who confronted Capitol police accused prosecutors of rushing to judgment against somebody prone to exaggerating.

Those defenses didn't sway the juries at their respective trials. Collectively, a total of 36 jurors unanimously convicted the three rioters of all 17 counts in their indictments.


www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jurors-reject-array-of-defenses-at-capitol-riot-trials/ar-AAWyufM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e598f95be8cd456d8854ada5e7650bdd

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Apr 25, 2022 10:03:58 GMT andydp said:

At the last count the score on "voter fraud" court cases are 0-60 against the plaintiffs.

IIRC it finally finished up somewhere closer to 0-85. I believe they had one win, in PA, which was overturned by a higher court.

[goldenvalley]

McCarthy is doing a SQUIRREL routine.  After a recording of his talking to Liz Cheney about Trump being at fault in the 1/6 situation and urging Trump to resign comes out to contradict his statement on the floor of the House that he didn't do such a thing, he's taking to the road.  To the Mexican border in Texas to talk about illegals entering the US...a tried and true distraction for the base. (Trump forgives him anyway.)

[goldenvalley]

Just had to share the headline from LGM

The Seditionists are calling from inside the House.

[goldenvalley]

I've not seen this in NYT or Washington Post but The Hill has this:

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol will be holding eight hearings in June, according to lawmakers on the panel.

--snip--

(CoChair) Thompson told reporters earlier on Thursday that eight public hearings will be slated for June, including ones scheduled for primetime and daytime.

“We’ll tell the story about what happened,” the House committee chairman said, according to CBS News. “We will use a combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have through the tens of thousands of exhibits we’ve […] looked at, as well as the hundreds of witnesses we deposed or just talked to in general.”

The first of the eight hearings is anticipated to be held on June 9, according to Thompson.

Gonna be must see tv for me, but I fear most people won't be watching.  This isn't the Watergate era when all 3 networks carried John Dean's testimony.

[LFC]

TPM has some more info on the June hearings. This point was interesting.

The committee has been pushing back its timeline for months.

In January, Thompson said hearings could occur in March or early April. In February, Raskin pushed that window back a month.

“We are determined to get to those hearings quickly in the spring, hoping in April, certainly no later than May,” the congressman said at the time.

Then, in March, plans changed again: “In reality, more like May, just because we have an inordinate amount of depositions to get through,” Thompson told NPR, adding: “It’s a timetable, nothing is set in stone.”

Now in April, plans have changed again. Still, unlike in previous comments about the hearing schedule, Thompson has set a specific start date this time: June 9.

[LFC]

Three Republican House terrorist supporters are being asked to testify before the committee. If they did nothing wrong then this should be no big deal, correct?

The Jan. 6 Committee issued requests to three congressmen on Monday, focusing on what it described as a plot to “occupy the Capitol.”

Reps. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Ronny Jackson (R-TX) all received the requests, which ask the members to cooperate with the panel on a voluntary basis.

In the letters to Biggs and Jackson, the panel repeatedly referred to efforts that it purportedly uncovered by the Oath Keepers and far-right provocateur Ali Alexander to “occupy the Capitol” on Jan. 6.

Filings in a federal criminal sedition case against the Oath Keepers revealed last month that some members of the group said on Jan. 6 that they were seeking to protect Jackson. The Committee includes those texts in its request to him, saying that it is “examining the coordination by various individuals and organizations on January 6th to ‘Occupy the Capitol,’ in an effort to obstruct Congress’s official proceeding to count electoral votes.”

The panel added in the request that Jackson had been present at the rally on the ellipse on the morning of Jan. 6.

“We would like to discuss how and when you returned from the Ellipse to the Capitol, and the contacts you had with participants in the rally or the subsequent march from the Ellipse to the Capitol,” the request reads.

Similarly, the request to Biggs centers an alleged plot to “Occupy the Capitol,” referencing a statement from Ali Alexander that Biggs helped develop the idea to stage protests on Jan. 6 along with two other members of Congress.

Alexander had said in a video unearthed after Jan. 6 that Biggs, alongs with Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Brooks, “schemed up putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting.”

Citing its own information, the panel says that Alexander was linked “to efforts to ‘Occupy the Capitol.'”

“We would like to understand precisely what you knew before the violence on January 6th about the purposes, planning, and expectations for the march on the Capitol,” the request to Biggs reads.

[goldenvalley]

May 2, 2022 16:48:59 GMT LFC said:

Three Republican House terrorist supporters are being asked to testify before the committee. If they did nothing wrong then this should be no big deal, correct?

The Jan. 6 Committee issued requests to three congressmen on Monday, focusing on what it described as a plot to “occupy the Capitol.”

Reps. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Ronny Jackson (R-TX) all received the requests, which ask the members to cooperate with the panel on a voluntary basis.

In the letters to Biggs and Jackson, the panel repeatedly referred to efforts that it purportedly uncovered by the Oath Keepers and far-right provocateur Ali Alexander to “occupy the Capitol” on Jan. 6.

Filings in a federal criminal sedition case against the Oath Keepers revealed last month that some members of the group said on Jan. 6 that they were seeking to protect Jackson. The Committee includes those texts in its request to him, saying that it is “examining the coordination by various individuals and organizations on January 6th to ‘Occupy the Capitol,’ in an effort to obstruct Congress’s official proceeding to count electoral votes.”

The panel added in the request that Jackson had been present at the rally on the ellipse on the morning of Jan. 6.

“We would like to discuss how and when you returned from the Ellipse to the Capitol, and the contacts you had with participants in the rally or the subsequent march from the Ellipse to the Capitol,” the request reads.

Similarly, the request to Biggs centers an alleged plot to “Occupy the Capitol,” referencing a statement from Ali Alexander that Biggs helped develop the idea to stage protests on Jan. 6 along with two other members of Congress.

Alexander had said in a video unearthed after Jan. 6 that Biggs, alongs with Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Brooks, “schemed up putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting.”

Citing its own information, the panel says that Alexander was linked “to efforts to ‘Occupy the Capitol.'”

“We would like to understand precisely what you knew before the violence on January 6th about the purposes, planning, and expectations for the march on the Capitol,” the request to Biggs reads.

The Select Committee has been very strategic with these letter requests for witnesses to come testify.  They lay out the case for calling the person in very carefully as a statement to the witnesses that the Committee knows a lot about them and they clue the media and the public in on what has been discovered.  

It won't convince these 3 guys to come forward...they're in it for the fight, that's been their motivation forever.  They want to run out the clock of the 2022 election cycle.

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Not directly from the committee but I'm sure they've had this info for a while. John Eastman was working directly with a PA state rep to steal Pennsylvania's election.

Trump attorney John Eastman had a plan to switch Pennsylvania from Biden to Trump in the final days of 2020: have state legislators count the votes just a little bit differently.

In Eastman’s case, newly released emails show, he wanted to have the legislature use a formula he devised that, in his words, would leave the state “with a significant Trump lead.”

It’s a variation on the age-old and apocryphal Stalin quote that “it’s not who votes that counts, but who does the counting.”

The emails were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the Colorado Ethics Institute, and were first reported by the Denver Post. The emails stem from Eastman’s time as a fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2020.

Eastman made the suggestion in an exchange with Pennsylvania State Rep. Russ Diamond (R), who had contacted the conservative law professor on Dec. 4 after seeing Eastman testify before the Georgia state Senate. Diamond wanted to know whether the supposedly “unlawful election” gave the state legislature the right to “exercise its plenary authority to appoint presidential electors, regardless of restraints existing within Pennsylvania’s constitution and statutes.”

From the first link Diamond's current statements that he didn't even consider doing it really don't square with his actions because of course they don't.

Diamond was one of 26 Pennsylvania House Republicans who called for the state's certification of presidential electors to be withdrawn and supported a resolution calling on Congress to consider Pennsylvania electors to be "in dispute."

On a side note this piece of shit had two different restraining orders filed against him by two different women. Notice his vote (bold mine) to protect violent shits like himself from losing their guns.

Two women filed for and were granted protection from abuse (PFA) orders against Diamond in 2002 (Diamond's former wife) and 2013 (a woman who lived with and dated Diamond), respectively. Court documents state that one woman claimed Diamond "pushed her in the face seven times and scratched her under an eye" and "threatened to kill her if she disconnected the cable".[30] The second woman to file for a PFA against Diamond told the courts that when she wouldn't leave his apartment, "he knocked her down and dragged her to the doorway." Diamond was later fined $200 for violating the second order.[30] In 2014, members of the Lebanon County Republican Committee sent Diamond a letter asking him to withdraw from the race for House of Representatives, citing his "string of unsuccessful runs for office" and the apparent history of violence evidenced in court documents. Diamond responded by saying that "all is fair in love, war and politics" and "Let's not cherry-pick just to make the other guy look bad."[30] Pennsylvania State Senator David Arnold Jr. (also a member of the Lebanon County Republican Committee) said that Diamond had engaged in a "disturbing pattern of behavior" in which he "admits no culpability and makes light of it."[30] Speaking on the state House floor in 2018, Diamond said that he felt the orders against him were unwarranted and contended that PFA orders were "weaponized"; he voted against a bill that would require persons subject to protective orders and persons convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence to surrender their guns to police officers, gun dealers, or an attorney.[31]

In fall 2015, Diamond was cited for public drunkenness in Annville Township. He subsequently acknowledged that he is an alcoholic.[32]

[goldenvalley]

Not that they'll comply but 5 Congress Critters just got subpoenaed to testify before the Select Committee.  Guess who?  OK I'll tell you:

The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is taking the extraordinary step of sending subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican lawmakers who have rejected the panel's requests to voluntarily cooperate.

In addition to McCarthy, the Democrat-led panel is subpoenaing Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.

Some of them should be mad at Meadows for releasing text messages.

[jackd]

So, does Garland go to court to compel them?

[LFC]

May 12, 2022 22:41:05 GMT goldenvalley said:

Not that they'll comply but 5 Congress Critters just got subpoenaed to testify before the Select Committee.  Guess who? 

It's a Quintfecta of American traitors.

[andydp]

When you get them by the wallet, they will think twice about it. One would think the easiest crime to prove was "filing a false instrument".


Fake Wisconsin Trump Electors, Already Under DOJ Investigation, Now Face Civil Suit, Too


The fake Donald Trump electors who signed official documents falsely claiming that their candidate had won Wisconsin in 2020 and whose actions are already under review by federal prosecutors are now facing a state lawsuit that could cost each of them $200,000 in damages.

The suit, prepared by the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection in Washington, D.C., and the Law Forward pro-democracy group in Wisconsin, was filed on behalf of two electors who cast their ballots for the state’s actual winner, Democrat Joe Biden, as well as a Wisconsin voter not involved in the Electoral College vote but who argues that the fraud adversely affected her as well.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fake-wisconsin-trump-electors-already-under-doj-investigation-now-face-civil-suit-too/ar-AAXnMrv?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e7ca4b24f1cf4ced978274579a2ea98f

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LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! What they did is so far beyond in-person voter fraud. It's treason.

[LFC]

The DOJ is requesting info from the committee.

The Justice Department has reportedly requested interview transcripts from the Jan. 6 Select Committee, signaling a seeming expansion of its efforts to investigate the events surrounding the deadly Capitol insurrection last year, according to a Tuesday New York Times report.

The transcripts the DOJ has reportedly asked for include the committee’s interviews with figures within former President Trump’s inner circle. The panel has interviewed more than 1,000 people thus far, and the transcripts could serve as a tool for the DOJ as it collects evidence in existing criminal cases.

Importantly, the transcripts could also lead the DOJ to pursue new leads or help inform new interviews carried out by federal law enforcement officials.

Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the criminal division, and Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, reportedly wrote a letter to Timothy J. Heaphy, the committee’s lead investigator, on April 20, according to the Times. Polite and Graves told Heaphy that some of the panel’s interviews “may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting.”

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The committee wants to talk to the Republican Rep who may have provided the recon for the right-wing terrorists of the Jan 6 Republican Insurrection.

The Jan. 6 Select Committee on Thursday announced that it is seeking information from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who, it says, gave a tour to a group, leading visitors “through parts of the Capitol complex” the day before the deadly Capitol insurrection last year.

In its letter to Loudermilk, committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) cite “public reporting and witness accounts” that “indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021.”

“For example, in the week following January 6th, Members urged law enforcement leaders to investigate sightings of ‘outside groups in the complex’ on January 5th that ‘appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day,'” Thompson and Cheney wrote.

Thompson and Cheney added that in light of those allegations, Republicans on the House Administration Committee, which Loudermilk is a member of, claimed to have reviewed security footage from the days before the insurrection. Republicans on the committee denied that there were any tours given, nor were there “large groups, no one with MAGA hats on.”

Thompson and Cheney said the committee is seeking a meeting with Loudermilk next week.

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Gym Jordan is demanding everything the committee has on him before he's willing to testify. Huh. So much for "if you haven't done anything wrong then what are you afraid of?"

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has reportedly told the Jan. 6 Select Committee that he will only comply with its subpoena if the panel meets his list of demands, according to the Washington Post and CNN. Among those demands are that the panel share its evidence related to him before his potential appearance.

In a letter sent to the panel late Wednesday, Jordan accused the committee of pursuing “political vendettas” against former President Trump and his allies, citing a letter he sent to the panel on Jan. 6 that argued that its “conduct up to that point led me to believe it was not operating fairly or in good faith,” according to the Post.

Jordan demanded the committee provide him with all of the materials it would use to question him if he sits for a deposition, including documents and testimony that reference him and an explanation of the legal authority the committee has in issuing a subpoena, according to the reports.

If the committee meets his conditions, Jordan wrote, he could then “adequately further respond to [the] subpoena,” according to the Post.

“I expect that you will provide the entirety of this material without delay,” Jordan reportedly wrote.

Jordan was subpoenaed by the committee alongside four other sitting GOP members of Congress — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ) — earlier this month. The committee seeks information from the group about the insurrection, including about their communications with the then-President and his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows before, during and after Jan. 6.

Perry and Biggs have filed objections to the committee’s subpoena, according to a Thursday CNN report.

In his letter, Jordan also contested the panel’s authority to subpoena him in the first place, the reports said.

“Even before your subpoena, as I articulated to you in January, I had serious doubts about the Select Committee’s commitment to fundamental fairness and due process,” Jordan wrote, according to the Post. “Your failure to respond added to my concerns, and your unprecedented actions over the past thirteen days have exacerbated them.”

Jordan reportedly wrote that he “strongly contests the constitutionality and validity of the subpoena in several respects,” according to CNN and the Post.

Jordan has had a string of inconsistent responses whenever he is pressed on his communications with Trump on Jan. 6.

Of course he'd just take the info, run to Faux News, screech about it with dials turned to 11, and then not testify.

[LFC]

May 27, 2022 2:16:59 GMT LFC said:

Gym Jordan is demanding everything the committee has on him before he's willing to testify. Huh. So much for "if you haven't done anything wrong then what are you afraid of?"

American fascists and terrorist supporters Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. Mo Brooks are whining about being subpoenaed to testify. Hillary Clinton has more balls then the entire lot of them put together. Also a LOT less guilt.

Biggs complained that Pelosi wouldn't let those involved in supporting an insurrection on the committee.

Among their arguments objecting to the subpoena on Biggs’ behalf, the GOP congressman’s lawyers took aim at the committee’s make-up of seven Democrats and two Republicans. Biggs’ lawyers argued that the panel is constitutionally invalid because the House resolution behind it requires 13 members. They took issue with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) appointment of all of the committee’s members — which happened after Pelosi rejected two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) picks, prompting him to yank all of his other appointees.

“This is not a captious carping on technicalities,” Biggs’ lawyers Kory Langhofer and Thomas Basile wrote. “The Committee’s composition bears directly on the constitutional legitimacy of its ostensible investigation and the lawfulness of its use of compulsory process.”

Additionally, Biggs’ lawyers argue that the GOP congressman’s activities related to his objection to certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory on Jan. 6 are “immune legislative acts.”

“Congressman Biggs’ actual or imagined communications, activities or votes in connection with the certification of electoral votes are immune legislative acts that are privileged from compelled disclosure to this Committee or to any other tribunal,” Biggs’ lawyers wrote.

Brooks quintupled down on The Big Lie which, of course, is his entire basis for supporting an insurrection.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Brooks got into a heated exchange with guest host Sandra Smith as he pushed bogus claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

“The congressmen and senators disagree with you, with what you just said,” Brooks told Smith after she pointed out fruitless legal efforts by former President Trump and his allies to subvert the election results. “Elections are going to be stolen if we don’t fix these problems.”

You can no longer vote Republican and claim to believe in democracy.

[goldenvalley]

May 31, 2022 14:36:29 GMT LFC said:

May 27, 2022 2:16:59 GMT LFC said:

Gym Jordan is demanding everything the committee has on him before he's willing to testify. Huh. So much for "if you haven't done anything wrong then what are you afraid of?"

American fascists and terrorist supporters Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. Mo Brooks are whining about being subpoenaed to testify. Hillary Clinton has more balls then the entire lot of them put together. Also a LOT less guilt.

Biggs complained that Pelosi wouldn't let those involved in supporting an insurrection on the committee.

Among their arguments objecting to the subpoena on Biggs’ behalf, the GOP congressman’s lawyers took aim at the committee’s make-up of seven Democrats and two Republicans. Biggs’ lawyers argued that the panel is constitutionally invalid because the House resolution behind it requires 13 members. They took issue with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) appointment of all of the committee’s members — which happened after Pelosi rejected two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) picks, prompting him to yank all of his other appointees.

“This is not a captious carping on technicalities,” Biggs’ lawyers Kory Langhofer and Thomas Basile wrote. “The Committee’s composition bears directly on the constitutional legitimacy of its ostensible investigation and the lawfulness of its use of compulsory process.”

Additionally, Biggs’ lawyers argue that the GOP congressman’s activities related to his objection to certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory on Jan. 6 are “immune legislative acts.”

“Congressman Biggs’ actual or imagined communications, activities or votes in connection with the certification of electoral votes are immune legislative acts that are privileged from compelled disclosure to this Committee or to any other tribunal,” Biggs’ lawyers wrote.

These guys...  Back in Spring 2021 there was a proposal from a Dem and a Rep Congressmember to create a commission like the one that investigated 9/11.  That was torpedoed and partly it was because Reps wanted to fold the protests over George Floyd into the investigation. SQUIRREL! Then this Select Committee is formed and Reps were invited to put people on it, but the ones McCarthy suggested were in the "insurrection class"...folks not interested in truth, one of whom Jordan had already proven himself to be a loud mouthed grandstander in other investigative committees.  And whoops Jordan is probably under subpoena now anyway.  

[LFC]

When Steve Bannon dies I will celebrate it as a win for democracy.

Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has reportedly subpoenaed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and members of the committee in an attempt to push back at the contempt charges he faces, according to CNN. Bannon is scheduled to go on trial next month in the contempt charges the Justice Department brought against him last year for failing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s investigation.

Late last year, Bannon was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress follow his refusal to comply with the committee’s subpoena. Bannon pleaded not guilty.

In an effort to fight the contempt charges he’s facing, Bannon’s legal team reportedly subpoenaed 15 lawmakers and congressional staffers to testify at his trial next month, one of Bannon’s attorneys and copies of the subpoenas obtained by CNN indicated. The subpoenas reportedly target all nine members of the committee, three committee staffers and House general counsel Douglas Letter. Additionally, Bannon reportedly subpoenaed Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders such as Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC).

CNN noted there are challenges to compel members of Congress to testify, citing protection of their legislative activity under the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause. Therefore, lawmakers and staffers subpoenaed by Bannon’s legal team could possibly file a motion to reject those subpoenas.

Bannon’s legal team are reportedly seeking to challenge the legitimacy of the committee and the panel’s motives for targeting Bannon. Like other Trump allies in Congress and the former president’s administration who have defied the committee’s subpoenas, Bannon has claimed executive privilege in refusing to comply.

I could have just as easily put this under the fascism thread since the questioning and ultimate destruction of all sources of power that do not bend to the will of the state is of paramount importance.

[goldenvalley]

Jun 8, 2022 15:36:02 GMT LFC said:

When Steve Bannon dies I will celebrate it as a win for democracy.

Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has reportedly subpoenaed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and members of the committee in an attempt to push back at the contempt charges he faces, according to CNN. Bannon is scheduled to go on trial next month in the contempt charges the Justice Department brought against him last year for failing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s investigation.

Late last year, Bannon was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress follow his refusal to comply with the committee’s subpoena. Bannon pleaded not guilty.

In an effort to fight the contempt charges he’s facing, Bannon’s legal team reportedly subpoenaed 15 lawmakers and congressional staffers to testify at his trial next month, one of Bannon’s attorneys and copies of the subpoenas obtained by CNN indicated. The subpoenas reportedly target all nine members of the committee, three committee staffers and House general counsel Douglas Letter. Additionally, Bannon reportedly subpoenaed Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders such as Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC).

CNN noted there are challenges to compel members of Congress to testify, citing protection of their legislative activity under the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause. Therefore, lawmakers and staffers subpoenaed by Bannon’s legal team could possibly file a motion to reject those subpoenas.

Bannon’s legal team are reportedly seeking to challenge the legitimacy of the committee and the panel’s motives for targeting Bannon. Like other Trump allies in Congress and the former president’s administration who have defied the committee’s subpoenas, Bannon has claimed executive privilege in refusing to comply.

I could have just as easily put this under the fascism thread since the questioning and ultimate destruction of all sources of power that do not bend to the will of the state is of paramount importance.

Bannon's lawyers (and others) give lawyer's a bad reputation.  There is a concept of client control...telling a client that it's not going to work...is a waste of time and the client's money...and there is a concept of "firing" a client under some circumstances. Maybe the lawyers will leave when Bannon's grift money runs out.

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Can we please just jail this prick?

MAGA lawyer John Eastman has been ordered by a federal judge to hand over a large batch of emails and documents to the Jan. 6 select committee, including an email said to provide evidence of a likely crime. Eastman was the attorney who advised Donald Trump on how to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a campaign that ended in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Eastman has argued that documents sought by the House committee are protected by privilege, but U.S. District Court Judge David Carter disagreed, ruling late Tuesday that Eastman should hand over 159 emails and documents by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Among them is a Dec. 22, 2020, email in which an unnamed attorney advised Trump not to pursue a court battle because defeat would “tank the January 6 strategy.” Carter said that email “cemented the direction of the January 6 plan.” He added: “Lawyers are free not to bring cases; they are not free to evade judicial review to overturn a democratic election. Accordingly, this portion of the email is subject to the crime-fraud exception and must be disclosed.”