January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

[emailking]

Maddow just played a tape on air of Kevin McCarthy very clearly telling Liz Cheney that he was thinking about calling Trump (Jan 10) and recommending that he resign. McCarthy denied today that he ever said he was going to tell Trump to resign.

[ꙮ]

Maddow just played a tape on air of Kevin McCarthy very clearly telling Liz Cheney that he was thinking about calling Trump (Jan 10) and recommending that he resign. McCarthy denied today that he ever said he was going to tell Trump to resign.

If they held the vote the morning of January 7th Trump would have been gone. That obviously couldn't have happened for basic practical reasons, but the delay meant that there was time for Republicans to rationalize away their initial justified disgust at the events of the 6th.

[GeorgiaModerate]

That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The Rs have no plans but seize control if the Debt Ceiling and cut Entitlement, like Gingrich did with Welfare and Boehner didn't raise the Minimum wage since 2006, Debt Ceiling expires 3/23

That's all what's gonna happen with a Speaker McCarthy, we're still on R budgets from Trump yrs the reason why BBB, 1400 Stimulus checks and 400 in extra Unemployment LEFT because during Reconciliation last yr, 50Rs unanimously stalled the raising of the Debt Ceiling because D's were trying to raise Corporate taxes to 27%

McCathy objected to 2K checks instead of 600 last yr during Xmas

Yes Biden and Obama were Prez they just prevented more Tax cuts, but since 2010/ now we have been on R Budget's

It's currently 20 percent Corporate taxes which is an R budget just like Obama had to deal with sequestered cuts with Boehner

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1517321540282503168

[Inmate Trump]

Maddow just played a tape on air of Kevin McCarthy very clearly telling Liz Cheney that he was thinking about calling Trump (Jan 10) and recommending that he resign. McCarthy denied today that he ever said he was going to tell Trump to resign.

If they held the vote the morning of January 7th Trump would have been gone. That obviously couldn't have happened for basic practical reasons, but the delay meant that there was time for Republicans to rationalize away their initial justified disgust at the events of the 6th.

Why couldn’t the vote have happened January 7?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

https://twitter.com/TheBaxterBean/status/1514299474964881415

Paging #BadLegalTakes

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

Good news!

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

Good news!

Say hello to Speaker Jim Jordan!

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

Good news!

Say hello to Speaker Jim Jordan!

Now that would be entertaining to say the least. 

[Sir Mohamed]

That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

Even without, it was always a longshot. I'm predicting Scalise as speaker.

[Ferguson97]

That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

Even without, it was always a longshot. I'm predicting Scalise as speaker.

Gonna make a hot take and say they go with the big man himself.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

That tape is probably the end of Kevin McCarthy's hope for the Speakership next January.

Even without, it was always a longshot. I'm predicting Scalise as speaker.

Gonna make a hot take and say they go with the big man himself.

I don't have a nuclear explosion gif, but that's what it would be.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1517579196037443584

[emailking]

What did the judge rule on that?

[emailking]

Judge ruled she can answer (she didn't recall).

[GeorgiaModerate]

Judge ruled she can answer (she didn't recall).

She had so much trouble remembering things that there should be calls for her to take a cognitive test.

[Inmate Trump]

She’s clearly lying under oath.

[NewYorkExpress]

Most of the House Freedom Caucus was involved in plotting Trump's coup.

Republican members of Congress were heavily involved in calls and meetings with former President Donald Trump and his top aides as they devised a strategy to overturn the election in December 2020, according to new evidence filed in federal court late Friday.

Deposition excerpts filed by the Jan 6. select committee — part of an effort to force former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to appear for an interview — suggest that some of Trump’s top allies in Congress were frequently present in meetings where a handful of strategies to prevent then-President-elect Joe Biden from taking office were discussed, including efforts to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with figures who would sow doubts about the legitimacy of the election.


Lawmakers who attended meetings, in person or by phone, included Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and numerous members of the House Freedom Caucus, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Meadows who provided key testimony about the conversations and meetings Meadows had in December 2020.


The new evidence underscores the expansive cast of elected Republicans who had ultimately enlisted themselves in Trump’s last-ditch effort to cling to power. Members traded theories about ways to push then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly stop Biden’s election, they parried with the White House Counsel’s Office on the boundaries of the law regarding presidential electors and they met directly with Pence’s staff to encourage him to take direct action on Jan. 6, when Congress convened to count electoral votes.

“They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the States or the electors back to the States,” Hutchinson recalled.

The disclosure came as part of a Friday evening court filing by the select panel asking a federal court to throw out Meadows’ lawsuit against the committee. In the filing, the select committee revealed that Meadows turned over 2,319 text messages during a brief period of cooperation but withheld more than 1,000, citing various privileges.

“[H]e was not acting as anything like a typical White House Chief of Staff advising the President on official matters of government policy,” House General Counsel Doug Letter wrote. “Mr. Meadows was playing a campaign role, attempting to facilitate a strategy that would have reversed the certified results of the 2020 election.”



The committee indicated that Meadows told Jordan in a text message that he supported efforts to convince Pence to send the election back to the states.

“I have pushed for this. Not sure it is going to happen,” Meadows texted Jordan early in the morning on Jan. 6.

Some of the GOP lawmakers were present in December meetings, Hutchinson recalled, when members of the White House Counsel’s Office raised significant legal doubts about a plan for pro-Trump activists to submit “alternate” electors in states won by Joe Biden.

Others attended a Dec. 21 meeting where Rudy Giuliani, then the president’s personal lawyer, and some associates advocated a plan for Pence to unilaterally refuse to count Biden’s electors and instead send the election back to various GOP-controlled state legislatures to replace Biden’s electors with Trump’s.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Most of the House Freedom Caucus was involved in plotting Trump's coup.

Republican members of Congress were heavily involved in calls and meetings with former President Donald Trump and his top aides as they devised a strategy to overturn the election in December 2020, according to new evidence filed in federal court late Friday.

Deposition excerpts filed by the Jan 6. select committee — part of an effort to force former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to appear for an interview — suggest that some of Trump’s top allies in Congress were frequently present in meetings where a handful of strategies to prevent then-President-elect Joe Biden from taking office were discussed, including efforts to replace the leadership of the Justice Department with figures who would sow doubts about the legitimacy of the election.


Lawmakers who attended meetings, in person or by phone, included Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and numerous members of the House Freedom Caucus, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Meadows who provided key testimony about the conversations and meetings Meadows had in December 2020.


The new evidence underscores the expansive cast of elected Republicans who had ultimately enlisted themselves in Trump’s last-ditch effort to cling to power. Members traded theories about ways to push then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly stop Biden’s election, they parried with the White House Counsel’s Office on the boundaries of the law regarding presidential electors and they met directly with Pence’s staff to encourage him to take direct action on Jan. 6, when Congress convened to count electoral votes.

“They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the States or the electors back to the States,” Hutchinson recalled.

The disclosure came as part of a Friday evening court filing by the select panel asking a federal court to throw out Meadows’ lawsuit against the committee. In the filing, the select committee revealed that Meadows turned over 2,319 text messages during a brief period of cooperation but withheld more than 1,000, citing various privileges.

“[H]e was not acting as anything like a typical White House Chief of Staff advising the President on official matters of government policy,” House General Counsel Doug Letter wrote. “Mr. Meadows was playing a campaign role, attempting to facilitate a strategy that would have reversed the certified results of the 2020 election.”



The committee indicated that Meadows told Jordan in a text message that he supported efforts to convince Pence to send the election back to the states.

“I have pushed for this. Not sure it is going to happen,” Meadows texted Jordan early in the morning on Jan. 6.

Some of the GOP lawmakers were present in December meetings, Hutchinson recalled, when members of the White House Counsel’s Office raised significant legal doubts about a plan for pro-Trump activists to submit “alternate” electors in states won by Joe Biden.

Others attended a Dec. 21 meeting where Rudy Giuliani, then the president’s personal lawyer, and some associates advocated a plan for Pence to unilaterally refuse to count Biden’s electors and instead send the election back to various GOP-controlled state legislatures to replace Biden’s electors with Trump’s.

Did anyone not assume this stuff was going on?

[Inmate Trump]

Did anyone not assume this stuff was going on?

Judging by the responses from people like Fuzzy Bear, Grumps, etc they simply don’t care.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Did anyone not assume this stuff was going on?

Judging by the responses from people like Fuzzy Bear, Grumps, etc they simply don’t care.

I don't care either. I'm just saying that this surprised literally no one.

[Ferguson97]

Did anyone not assume this stuff was going on?

Judging by the responses from people like Fuzzy Bear, Grumps, etc they simply don’t care.

I don't care either. I'm just saying that this surprised literally no one.

I feel like maybe you should care that there was a massive conspiracy to overturn the election.

I know you’re not an American and our politics is just a fun little hobby for you…but come on.

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1517579196037443584

What the F was her lawyer even arguing about?
Did I hear him correctly? ... That, because he (MTG's lawyer) also represented (or currently represents) donald Traitorous trump, that their side gets to claim "Executive Privilege" for MTG not to answer a question?
What kind of Bizarro world law, is that crap? Some people have no shame.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

These proceedings are having an effect on Voters because Biden Approvals will eventually go up and not stay at 41% we still have to vote in Nov and we will have the Final day on whether D's deserve a Third Term as a party in Power, we already won in 2018/20 and D's won 2006/2008 so the myth that D's can't win Elections is False