January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread

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https://twitter.com/Jose_Pagliery/status/1470554291509334021

Why are we finding all this out now, from Rep. Cheney in the House, and not months ago from AG Garland and Director Wray?

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Capitol Rioter Asks Court to Appoint U.S. Marshals to Subpoena Trump and His Allies

His attorney, Samuel H. Shamansky, listed names of witnesses to be subpoenaed, including Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Lin Wood and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, according to a court memo.

Shamansky alleged that those witnesses are "involved in the planning and execution of the attempt to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election."

"Considering the significant roles these witnesses play in the legal and political communities, and the evasiveness that some have historically shown in the face of court orders, Defendant submits that appointment of the U.S. Marshals Service is necessary in order to effectuate his right to compulsory process and ensure that the same is accomplished expeditiously," the court filing reads.

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The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot issued a subpoena Tuesday for Rudy Giuliani, a central figure in former President Donald Trump's failed bid to overturn the 2020 election on the basis of unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud.

In addition to Giuliani, the committee issued subpoenas to two other attorneys who pushed various election fraud conspiracies on Trump's behalf: Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.

Former Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, who was among those working with Giuliani at the post-election Willard Hotel "command center," was also subpoenaed Tuesday.

"The four individuals we've subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes," Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who chairs the committee, said in a statement Tuesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/politics/rudy-giuliani-january-6-subpoena/index.html

 

All the subpoena's are virtually worthless when the response is to ignore the House, drag things out in court until the GOP takes it back. Pelosi and Committee need to authorize the Sergeant at Arms to borrow some jail space from the DC police and lock these outlaws up until they agree to testify.

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

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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.)

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

Actions like this are why I despise anyone who identifies as a Republican, whether they "support Trump" or not. The Republican Party is supporting Trump. Being a Republican means enabling Trump and everything he stands for: corruption, destruction of the rule of law, and the end of our Republic.

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https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1486019563196231686

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Oath Keepers leader denied bail on Capitol riot sedition charge

    U.S. Magistrate Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson expressed concern in the 17-page detention order that Rhodes could be a flight risk, noting the Oath Keepers co-founder had installed "elaborate escape tunnels" in his backyard.
    "The evidence shows Defendant orchestrated a large-scale attack on the federal government with the purpose of intimidating, by violence, federal officials and disrupting official governmental proceedings incident to the transfer of power in the Executive Branch following a national election," the judge added.

"On balance, the evidence in the record overall indicates Defendant's release could endanger the safety and wellbeing of others. This factor weighs in favor of detention ... [Rhodes' alleged] authoritative role in the conspiracy, access to substantial weaponry, and ability to finance any future insurrection, combined with his continued advocacy for violence against the federal government."

— Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson

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https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1489693461452361748?cxt=HHwWqMC4oe-Tuqw...

Ronna McDaniel is gaslighting pretty hard.

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1491056726547652615

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https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1491545883686707203

Republicans lack the imagination to invent crimes to falsely accuse their opponents, so they instead project their own onto them.

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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1496984253866856453

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https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1508762244158525442

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Revealed: Trump used White House phone for call on January 6 that was not on official log

Donald Trump used an official White House phone to place at least one call during the Capitol attack on January 6 last year that should have been reflected in the internal presidential call log from that day but was not, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The former president called the phone of a Republican senator, Mike Lee, with a number recorded as 202-395-0000, a placeholder number that shows up when a call is incoming from a number of White House department phones, the sources said.

The number corresponds to an official White House phone and the call was placed by Donald Trump himself, which means the call should have been recorded in the internal presidential call log that was turned over to the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack.
Trump with John Bolton in July 2019. Bolton said the pair discussed how burner phones were deployed by people as a way of avoiding scrutiny of their calls.
Trump discussed ‘burner phones’ several times, John Bolton says
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Trump’s call to Lee was reported at the time, as well as its omission from the call log, by the Washington Post and CBS. But the origin of the call as coming from an official White House phone, which has not been previously reported, raises the prospect of tampering or deletion by Trump White House officials.

Anything the January 6th committee may have gotten from the White House should be presumed to be doctored. Adverse inference alone makes Trump and all his co-conspirators (before and after the fact) guilty of treason.

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House votes to refer 2 former Trump advisers to Justice Department for contempt of Congress

The House voted Wednesday to recommend two former advisers to former President Donald Trump be referred to the Department of Justice on criminal contempt of Congress charges.

The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot is looking to hold Trump White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and Trump's onetime trade adviser Peter Navarro in contempt of Congress for their refusal to cooperate with the panel's investigation or appear for their respective scheduled depositions.

The House vote was 220-203. Just two Republicans -- Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois -- voted for the resolution. The pair also serve on the January 6 committee.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/house-vote-contempt-referrals-scavino-navarro/index.html

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1511815694576496641

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Liz Cheney Says Jan. 6 Panel Has Enough Evidence To Refer Trump For Criminal Charges

Cheney said that the evidence showed that those involved in planning the events of Jan. 6 “knew that they were going to attempt to use violence to stop the transfer of power.”

“That is the definition of an insurrection,” she said.

She said the panel has a “tremendous amount of testimony and documents that I think very, very clearly demonstrate the extent of the planning and the organization and the objective.”

That objective was “to try to stop the kind of electoral votes, to try to interfere with that official proceeding,” she added.

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