January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1483575757171347456?s=20

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/SethN12/status/1483581739482206215

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/FBIBoston/status/1483575813136125957

[riceowl]

SCOTUS won't block archives from sending committee records; Thomas would have heard appeal.

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1483940186476232707

[GeorgiaModerate]

It will be interesting to see if Trump says anything about this publicly.

[riceowl]

It will be interesting to see if Trump says anything about this publicly.

likely just complaining about ACB Gorsuch and Boof being disloyal.

[Middle-aged Europe]

SCOTUS won't block archives from sending committee records; Thomas would have heard appeal.

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1483940186476232707

Thomas... *gasp* no way. :sarcasm:

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

SCOTUS won't block archives from sending committee records; Thomas would have heard appeal.

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1483940186476232707

Thomas... *gasp* no way. :sarcasm:

Thomas ought to have recused himself. (Not that I actually expected him to. His appearance of corruption has been so obvious for so long everyone has become numb to it.)

[NYSforKennedy2024]

https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1483944604831567875?ref_src=twsrc%5Ego...

[Badger]

SCOTUS won't block archives from sending committee records; Thomas would have heard appeal.

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1483940186476232707

Thomas... *gasp* no way. :sarcasm:

Thomas ought to have recused himself. (Not that I actually expected him to. His appearance of corruption has been so obvious for so long everyone has become numb to it.)

 Although I believe Thomas is by far the worst Justice even on this court, and arguably one of the worst in half a century 3, I see no reason he would have had to refuse himself technically speaking.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

SCOTUS won't block archives from sending committee records; Thomas would have heard appeal.

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1483940186476232707

Thomas... *gasp* no way. :sarcasm:

Thomas ought to have recused himself. (Not that I actually expected him to. His appearance of corruption has been so obvious for so long everyone has become numb to it.)

 Although I believe Thomas is by far the worst Justice even on this court, and arguably one of the worst in half a century 3, I see no reason he would have had to refuse himself technically speaking.

Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas (2019)

Among Those Pressing Trump to Weed Out Disloyalty: Clarence Thomas’s Wife (2020)

Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas signs letter against Jan. 6 committee (2022)

That last one (along with her gig churning out pro-Trump propaganda at Tucker Carlson's sewer) are what really puts it over the top in my opinion. I do not know the common legal standard for recusal, but it looks terrible for any pretense of objectivity on Thomas' part.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1483839167528374273

[Badger]

SCOTUS won't block archives from sending committee records; Thomas would have heard appeal.

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1483940186476232707

Thomas... *gasp* no way. :sarcasm:

Thomas ought to have recused himself. (Not that I actually expected him to. His appearance of corruption has been so obvious for so long everyone has become numb to it.)

 Although I believe Thomas is by far the worst Justice even on this court, and arguably one of the worst in half a century 3, I see no reason he would have had to refuse himself technically speaking.

Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas (2019)

Among Those Pressing Trump to Weed Out Disloyalty: Clarence Thomas’s Wife (2020)

Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas signs letter against Jan. 6 committee (2022)

That last one (along with her gig churning out pro-Trump propaganda at Tucker Carlson's sewer) are what really puts it over the top in my opinion. I do not know the common legal standard for recusal, but it looks terrible for any pretense of objectivity on Thomas' part.

I stand corrected. Though equally unsurprisingly Thomas wouldn't do so.

[NewYorkExpress]

Stephanie Grisham told the January 6 Committee that Trump was holding secret meetings in the White House ahead of the coup attempt.

The former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack that Donald Trump hosted secret meetings in the White House residence in days before 6 January, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The former senior Trump aide also told House investigators that the details of whether Trump actually intended to march to the Capitol after his speech at the Ellipse rally would be memorialized in documents provided to the US Secret Service, the sources said.

The select committee’s interview with Grisham, who was Melania Trump’s chief of staff when she resigned on 6 January, was more significant than expected, the sources said, giving the panel new details about the Trump White House and what the former US president was doing before the Capitol attack.

Grisham gave House investigators an overview of the chaotic final weeks in the Trump White House in the days leading up to the Capitol attack, recalling how the former president held off-the-books meetings in the White House residence, the sources said.

The secret meetings were apparently known by only a small number of aides, the sources said. Grisham recounted that they were mostly scheduled by Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and that the former chief usher, Timothy Harleth, would wave participants upstairs, the sources said.

Harleth, the former director of rooms at the Trump International Hotel before moving with the Trumps to the White House in 2017, was once one of the former first family’s most trusted employees, according to a top former White House aide to Melania Trump.

But after Harleth sought to ingratiate himself with the Biden transition team after Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election in order to keep his White House role, Trump and Meadows moved to fire him before Melania Trump stepped in to keep him until Biden’s inauguration.

Grisham told the select committee she was not sure who exactly Trump met with in the White House residence, but provided Harleth’s name and the identities of other Trump aides in the usher’s office who might know of the meetings, the sources said.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Not specifically January 6, but one of the investigations into Trump's efforts to steal the election:

Fulton County (GA) DA requests special grand jury for Trump probe

[thebeloitmoderate]

Also the 1/6 committee has subpoenaed Ivanka Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/politics/jan-6-committee-ivanka-trump.html

[emailking]

I don't think it's a subpoena. They've just asked her to appear.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1484728800395071490

[ProudModerate2]

Former Trump campaign adviser acknowledges being part of 2020 fake electors plot.

Boris Epshteyn, an adviser for former President Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, acknowledged Friday that he was part of the effort to prop up so-called "alternate electors" to support Trump in key states.

https://us.cnn.com/2022/01/22/politics/boris-epshteyn-trump-campaign-fake-electors/index.html

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1485292822890795013

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Judge rejects Trump spokesman's effort to retrieve hundreds of financial documents back from Jan. 6 committee

A US District Judge rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump's spokesperson Taylor Budowich on Thursday to retrieve hundreds of financial documents that his bank provided the House select committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.

Budowich and Conservative Strategies, Inc. sued the Jan. 6 committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, JP Morgan, and other individual members of the committee over a subpoena for his financial records from JP Morgan. The suit was filed on December 24 in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Judge James Boasberg denied Budowich's motion at a hearing on Thursday, on the grounds that it's unconstitutional to request that members of Congress return subpoenaed materials.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1485071560646209537

Apparently Trump had children as senior White House advisors. Explains a lot.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1485071560646209537
Apparently Trump had children as senior White House advisors. Explains a lot.

Ivanka is 40 years old.  It's not like she's an innocent young child.

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1485071560646209537
Apparently Trump had children as senior White House advisors. Explains a lot.

Ivanka is 40 years old.  It's not like she's an innocent young child.

Not only that, but trump and his NutJob clan went after Hunter Biden.
trump is a piece of sh*t.

[Frodo]

Virginia's new Republican Attorney General, Jason Miyares, is doing everything he can to undermine the January 6th investigative committee, starting by firing the lawyers who are working for it (who are under his control):

Va.’s new attorney general fires U-Va. counsel who was on leave working as top investigator for Jan. 6 panel

Virginia’s new Republican attorney general has fired the University of Virginia’s counsel, who was on leave from the job to work as the top investigator for the U.S. House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, the attorney and university said.

Tim Heaphy, who had worked at the state’s flagship university for about three years, was among roughly 30 staffers who were let go by Attorney General Jason S. Miyares shortly before he took office a little over a week ago. Democrats have questioned the firings and how they were carried out.

Victoria LaCivita, a Miyares spokeswoman, said the attorney general’s office had also fired the counsel for George Mason University, Brian Walther, saying it is common for an incoming attorney general to appoint counsel that shares its “philosophy and legal approach.”

Both Heaphy and Walther are Democrats.

LaCivita declined to say whether any other counsels at Virginia’s more than three dozen public colleges and universities had been let go.