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☆ Trump a target as U.S. Capitol riot probe votes on criminal referrals
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/3] A mob of supporters of then-U.S. President Donald Trump climb through a window they broke as they storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. The committee is scheduled to meet Monday to consider referrals and vote on its final report, which it expects to release in full on Wednesday. It subpoenaed Trump in October, asking him to testify and provide documents, but he filed suit to block the action. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in October found that two in five Republicans believed Trump was at least partly responsible for the attack. Four of the committee's members, including both Republicans, leave Congress early next year.

☆ U.S. House Jan. 6 Capitol riot probe to consider Trump criminal referral
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The committee is scheduled to meet Monday to consider referrals and vote on its final report, which it expects to release in full on Wednesday. With Republicans due to take control of the House of Representatives next month, the Jan. 6 committee is expected to be disbanded, even as Trump seeks the Republican nomination to run for the White House again in 2024. It subpoenaed Trump in October, asking him to testify and provide documents, but he filed suit to block the action. A Reuters/Ipsos poll in October found that two in five Republicans believed Trump was at least partly responsible for the attack. Four of the committee's members, including both Republicans, leave Congress early next year.

watch nowThe Jan. 6 select House committee on Monday referred former President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation and potential prosecution for his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. While the Justice Department, which is already conducting an investigation of Trump, takes criminal referrals seriously, it is not obligated to charge anyone with a crime. Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing, has not been charged with any crimes related to the 2020 election and the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump last month announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024. He did not name them, but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is among the members who defied a subpoena from the committee.

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee met Sunday to finalize its plans to issue at least three criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump, NBC News has learned exclusively. NBC News previously reported that obstruction, conspiracy and incitement of an insurrection were among the charges the committee was considering to recommend against Trump. The criminal referrals carry no official legal weight, and it remains up to the Justice Department to decide whether or not to charge Trump and anyone else the committee might refer. The committee also plans to refer several Republican members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee for their defiance of congressional subpoenas, NBC News has learned. “None of the subpoenaed members complied,” Raskin said during Sunday’s meetings, presenting the findings of the subcommittee responsible for referrals.

☆ January 6 committee will make criminal referrals to the DOJ, chair Bennie Thompson says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The January 6 committee has decided on criminal referrals, chairman Bennie Thompson said. Thompson did not provide further details on who or how many referrals the panel plans to issue. "We have made decisions on criminal referrals," the Mississippi Democrat said. Thompson declined to provide details on who may be referred or how many referrals the committee may issue, adding that the panel still has to discuss the matter further. Four lawmakers on the nine-member committee — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin, Adam Schiff and Zoe Lofgren — have been focused on whether to issue potential criminal referrals to the DOJ, CNN reported.

☆ Jamie Raskin: Trump thought he could enter the Capitol on January 6 'like Mussolini being carried on the shoulders of his supporters'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He said Trump likely thought he would enter "like Mussolini being carried on the shoulders of his supporters." "I imagine that he thought that he would enter like Mussolini being carried on the shoulders of his supporters and enter the Capitol," Raskin said, likening Trump to the Italian fascist dictator. Raskin was speaking after Secret Service agent Robert Engel — who was with Trump during the riot — testified to the House panel on Thursday. Raskin added that Trump was "adamant that he be able to join the mob and approach and enter the Capitol with them." The House panel in October unanimously voted to subpoena Trump, following several hearings chock-full of damning testimony about the former president's conduct on January 6, 2021.

☆ Rep. Raskin said a GOP majority could install Trump as Speaker of the House. Matt Gaetz has floated the idea before.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jamie Raskin says GOP members of the House could try to make Trump the Speaker. Rep. Matt Gaetz previously told supporters he would nominate Trump if the GOP took the House. "And they might just vote for Trump, when they, you know, take the roll call for speaker," Raskin said. " The idea to bring Trump back to politics by voting him in as Speaker has been publicly floated by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz since last year. However, talk of Trump leading the House has become more popular over the years, and multiple Republicans, like his former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former adviser Steve Bannon, have also supported the idea of House Speaker Trump.

☆ AOC says the US is 'truly facing an environment of fascism' where voter intimidation 'brings us to Jim Crow'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AOC said the US is experiencing fascism and voter intimidation that mimics the Jim Crow era. Federal officials warned that threats of violence may rise due to "perceptions of election-related fraud." "We are really truly facing an environment of fascism in the United States of America. This type of intimidation at the polls brings us to Jim Crow," Ocasio-Cortez said on MSNBC's "All in with Chris Hayes" on Friday in a conversation with Hayes and Rep. Jamie Raskin. "Those wounds threaten to rip right back open if we do not strongly defend democracy in the United States of America."

☆ Pelosi wondered if Mike Pence 'could even trust the Secret Service' to keep him safe on January 6
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had concerns about whether the Secret Service could be trusted on January 6. She wondered whether Vice President Mike Pence could trust the agents to take him to a safe place. "I myself wondered if he could even trust the Secret Service to take him to a safe place," Pelosi said Tuesday on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports." The Secret Service is facing scrutiny for losing countless records from January 6, reportedly including agents' texts. Pelosi also on Tuesday reacted to the news that the Secret Service withheld threats toward her for days before the riot.

☆ The far-right Oath Keepers appeared to be energized by Donald Trump's tweet about a 'wild' protest on January 6, jury hears
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A jury was told that Trump's tweets encouraged the far-right Oath Keepers to storm the Capitol. One Oath Keeper later said, "He called us all to the Capitol and wants us to make it wild!!! Kelly Meggs, an Oath Keepers leader from Dunnellon, Florida, wrote to other group members, "He wants us to make it WILD. William Campbell/Corbis via Getty ImagesThe indictment against the Oath Keepers details how the group planned to bring weapons to Washington DC on January 6, after hosting "unconventional warfare" training. Defense lawyers for Rhodes plan to argue that the Oath Keepers founder is not guilty because he believed Trump was poised to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Share this -Link copiedCommittee votes to subpoena Trump The committee voted on Thursday unanimously to subpoena Trump. Trump would not be the first president to be subpoenaed, nor would he be the first former president subpoenaed by Congress. "Even before the networks called the race for President Biden on Nov. 7th, his chances of pulling out a victory were virtually nonexistent, and President Trump knew it," Kinzinger said. “At times, President Trump acknowledged the reality of his loss. “What did President Trump know?

That's based on a Secret Service email from 9:09 a.m. "The head of the President’s Secret Service protective detail, Robert Engel, was specifically aware of the large crowds outside the magnetometers," Schiff said. A Secret Service report at 7:58 a.m. said, "Some members of the crowd are wearing ballistic helmets, body armor carrying radio equipment and military grade backpacks." On Dec. 26, a Secret Service field office relayed a tip that had been received by the FBI, Schiff said. Trump would not be the first president to be subpoenaed, nor would he be the first former president subpoenaed by Congress.

☆ Subpoenaing Trump to testify about Jan. 6 is the only way to fill in the blanks left by the 30-plus Trump aides who pleaded the Fifth to investigators: Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jan. 6 committee members unanimously voted to subpoena Donald Trump on Thursday. Members said interviewing Trump is the only way to fill in gaps from uncooperative Trump aides. Members said there was no need to subpoena Mike Pence because they know he "did his job." "We have collected enough evidence that former Vice President Pence did his job," Thompson told reporters after the committee's ninth and most likely final public hearing. The latest breakouts include that Trump began plotting during the summer of 2020 to falsely claim victory in that fall's election.

☆ House Democratic leadership finally released the text of their bill to ban members of Congress from trading stocks. Here's what's in it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The text comes after months of back-and-forth between Pelosi and lawmakers, and a vote may come this week. Interest in lawmakers' stock trades rose after Insider's "Conflicted Congress" investigation. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who himself does not trade stocks, said earlier this year that he'd consider barring members of Congress from trading stocks if the GOP wins the House in November. Here's what the bill includes:The bill would ban top officials across all three branches — as well as the spouses and dependent children of members of Congress — from owning or trading stocks, as well as cryptocurrencies. Members of Congress would also be required to file financial disclosures electronically, eliminating a long-standing problem with lawmakers submitting illegible information about their personal finances.

☆ Jan. 6 committee postpones Wednesday hearing as Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The panel cited Hurricane Ian, which is set to hit Florida on Wednesday, as reason for the delay. Chairman Bennie G. Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney released a Tuesday statement announcing that the panel's next public hearing, which was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, will be postponed. "In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow's proceedings," the lawmakers said. Sewing up 'loose ends'January 6 committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin told reporters that the goal of the ninth – and presumably last – public hearing was to sew up "some loose ends." "People understand that the former president wouldn't take no for an answer," Raskin told reporters outside the US Capitol on September 22.

☆ Groups seeking voter ‘anomalies’ 2 years after Trump’s loss raise concerns ahead of midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Andrew Davis | Dasha Burns | Dasha Burns Is An Nbc News Now Correspondent Who Covers Politics | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

Glen Morgan speaks about his canvassing organization, the Washington Voter Research Project. The Washington Voter Research Project maintains that these claims have no basis in fact. In January, the Washington Voter Research Project began releasing some of its canvassing efforts’ findings online, claiming it had found several anomalies in voter rolls. The resident said that, upon being pressed, the canvassers eventually said they were with the Washington Voter Research Project. “We have these volunteer badges that just say volunteer and they say Washington voter research project on them.

☆ There's overwhelming support for an age limit on the president and Congress. Here's why that won't happen anytime soon.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

Some have proposed age limits for elected officials amid concerns about America's gerontocracy. The history of the contemporary movement for term limits largely dates back to the early 1990s, when dozens of states enacted term limits not just for their own legislatures but for their federal representatives in Washington. "Put it this way: I'm a little more interested in term limits than age limits," Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland told Insider. "There's a logic to term limits, because the principle of democracy is taking turns," Raskin, 59, said. "If there were to be term limits, the legislature certainly should have more terms than the executive," he offered.

☆ Schiff says he likely would support criminal referrals in Jan. 6 attack probe
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Trump has falsely claimed without evidence that widespread voter fraud tainted the election result and that he should have been declared winner. He did not provide further details, but criticized the Justice Department for being "slow" in its independent investigation of the attack. Democratic Representative Pete Aguilar told CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" that Wednesday's hearing will expose new details about the investigation. Asked about the possibility of former Vice President Mike Pence being subpoenaed to testify, Aguilar said: "I think it's important that we hear from the vice president, but the committee's work continues. We haven't made a determination on where we go with the vice president, specifically."

☆ Jan. 6 panel is 'aware of' call between White House and rioter, Rep. Raskin says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Summer Concepcion | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The House Jan. 6 committee is "aware of" the call between the White House switchboard and a rioter during the attack on the Capitol, panel member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press." “You know, I can’t say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it,” Raskin said. “And we are aware of lots of contacts between the people in the White House and different people that were involved obviously in the coup attempt and the insurrection.”The call is “one of thousands of details that obviously the committee is aware of," he said. “And our job is to put everything into a comprehensive portrait and narrative timeline of what took place." Riggleman has said that he only knows about "one end" of the call and not the "White House end."

☆ Twitter whistleblower who foresaw the violence of Jan. 6 reveals her identity with an omen for the future of US democracy: WaPo
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In July, the Jan. 6 panel played a recording of an interview with an anonymous Twitter employee. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. In July, the House select committee investigating the riot played an interview with Navaroli while hiding her identity. Navaroli also foresaw the violence of the insurrection, which killed five people and injured many more, months before January 6, 2021. Navaroli told the newspaper that she sat with multiple interviews for the January 6 panel.

It will need to resolve differences with a similar Senate bill before it can head to Biden to sign. In addition, 139 House Republicans and eight Senate Republicans voted to challenge the results in some key states. Lawmakers in both parties acknowledge the vague law needs to be updated, but the House version faced strong opposition from House Republicans who argued this bill goes too far. For instance, the Senate bill would require one-fifth of the House and Senate to object to states' electors, instead of one lawmaker in both chambers. The House bill, on the other hand, requires one-third of each chamber to issue an objection.

On a vote of 219-209, with most Republicans in opposition, the House approved the rules for debating the measure, clearing the way for a vote on passage. In addition, 139 House Republicans and eight Senate Republicans voted to challenge the results in some key states. Lawmakers in both parties acknowledge the vague law needs to be updated, but the House version faced strong opposition from House Republicans who argued this bill goes too far. For instance, the Senate bill would require one-fifth of the House and Senate to object to states' electors, instead of one lawmaker in both chambers. The House bill, on the other hand, requires one-third of each chamber to issue an objection.

☆ Lindsey Graham's abortion ban bill baffles some Republicans as Democrats sharpen attacks in key midterm races
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Graham's bill has virtually no chance of passing the current Congress, where Democrats hold slim majorities in the House and Senate. Some Republicans, including GOP candidates in pivotal Senate races, have backed Graham's new proposal. But other top Republicans either refused to back Graham's bill or expressed a belief that individual states should set their own abortion laws. "With regard to abortion, Democrats are clearly focused on abortion," he added. As Graham's bill brought a renewed focus to the issue, Democrats pounced.

☆ These are all the federal crimes Trump extremists could be charged with after their attack on the US Capitol
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-08 | by ( Dave Levinthal | Tina Sfondeles | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Federal authorities and other law enforcement will likely make more arrests within days, if not hours. "These fools made it easy for law enforcement to find them because they were posing for pictures. An Insider analysis of the United States Code, coupled with interviews with several leading experts on federal law, identified more than a dozen different federal crimes that could apply to Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol. Assaulting, resisting, or impeding government officialsVideos both inside and outside the Capitol showed numerous pro-Trump extremists physically fighting with and otherwise interfering with federal law enforcement and other government officials. Anyone who "willfully injures or commits any depredation against any property of the United States" commits a federal crime.

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