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January 6 Hearings Live

Who wanted preemptive pardons from ex-President Trump?

At Least 6 GOP Reps Asked Trump for a Jan. 6 Pardon

Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Scott Perry.

"... Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio had discussed pardons but never asked for one."

No mention of Lauren Boebert, despite her live-tweeting Nancy Pelosi's location during the attacks.

Perry, who has been subpoenaed by the committee regarding his interaction with the former Justice Department official Jeff Clark, denied the accusation.

"The notion that I ever sought a Presidential pardon for myself or other Members of Congress is an absolute, shameless, and soulless lie," Perry wrote on social media.
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9 People Who Sought Preemptive Pardons From Trump After Jan. 6

"A former aide also said Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani asked the then-president for pardons."
 
Even if Lindsay Graham gets off scot free, I am thoroughly enjoying the schadenfreude of seeing him under so much pressure.
 
This just in. The January 6 Committee has demanded Nutty Newt Gingrich to testify. Newt was advising Trump on how to push the Big Lie and may have played a role in the fake elector scheme. Loose the hounds.
 
Ginni Thomas pressed Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory The conservative activist and wife of the Supreme Court justice emailed lawmakers in two states in the weeks after the election

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed lawmakers to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory not only in Arizona, as previously reported, but also in a second battleground state, Wisconsin, according to emails obtained under state public-records law.

The Washington Post reported this year that Ginni Thomas emailed 29 Arizona state lawmakers, some of them twice, in November and December 2020. She urged them to set aside Biden’s popular-vote victory and “choose” their own presidential electors, despite the fact that the responsibility for choosing electors rests with voters under Arizona state law.

The new emails show that Thomas also messaged two Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin: state Sen. Kathy Bernier, then chair of the Senate elections committee, and state Rep. Gary Tauchen. Bernier and Tauchen received the email at 10:47 a.m. on Nov. 9, virtually the same time the Arizona lawmakers received a verbatim copy of the message from Thomas. The Bernier email was obtained by The Post, and the Tauchen email was obtained by the watchdog group Documented and provided to The Post.
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www.politico.com

Trump-aligned Pa. governor nominee Mastriano sues Jan. 6 committee

In the suit, Mastriano argues that the committee’s rules and composition mean it cannot compel witnesses to sit for depositions.
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State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, is suing the Jan. 6 select committee, setting up a legal fight between one of the most prominent congressional investigations in recent memory and a Trump-backed candidate in a hotly contested midterm race.
Mastriano filed his suit on Thursday afternoon in federal court in Washington. It names the committee itself as a defendant, as well as each member of the panel and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In the suit, Mastriano argues that the committee’s rules and composition mean it cannot compel witnesses to sit for depositions. Mastriano is asking for declaratory relief — a request for the judge to declare the committee cannot compel him to sit for a deposition — as well as for the panel to pay his attorney’s fees.

In February, the committee subpoenaed Mastriano for documents and testimony. Shortly after winning the Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial primary in May, Mastriano produced a tranche of documents for the committee. He also signaled that he would participate in a voluntary interview. But the committee insisted Mastriano be deposed on videotape, according to the lawsuit. Numerous other witnesses have already been deposed on camera, and clips from their interviews have been featured prominently in the panel’s hearings.
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Elected officials, police chiefs on leaked Oath Keepers list | AP News
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military.

It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets.

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“Even for those who claimed to have left the organization when it began to employ more aggressive tactics in 2014, it is important to remember that the Oath Keepers have espoused extremism since their founding, and this fact was not enough to deter these individuals from signing up,” the report says.

Appearing in the Oath Keepers’ database doesn’t prove that a person was ever an active member of the group or shares its ideology. Some people on the list contacted by The Associated Press said they were briefly members years ago and are no longer affiliated with the group. Some said they were never dues-paying members.

“Their views are far too extreme for me,” said Shawn Mobley, sheriff of Otero County, Colorado. Mobley told the AP in an email that he distanced himself from the Oath Keepers years ago over concerns about its involvement in the standoff against the federal government at Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, among other things.
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I'm mentioning this in this thread because Oath Keepers members were part of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
 
From Raw Story

Speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said the select committee was planning its next hearing for Sept. 28.

Thompson was asked if he anticipated there may be additional hearings after the Sept. 28 hearing. "It could be, but at this point, the 28th is the goal for the next hearing and we're in the process of deciding on a topic and after that, we have about two weeks to put the product together and we'll work toward that conclusion," Thompson.
 
Next January 6 Committee hearing is scheduled for September 28, Wednesday at 1:00 EST. Whether there might be further hearings has not been established.
 

The House Oversight Committee has given the National Archives and Records Administration until Tuesday to say if former President Donald Trump is still in possession of government records that he shouldn’t be.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) revealed earlier this month that the National Archives is not certain all presidential records from Trump were recovered in the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid. The New York Democrat added that she was concerned the former president “may continue to retain presidential records at nonsecure locations, including classified material that could endanger our nation’s security.”
The National Archives has until tomorrow to provide answers to the crucial questions.
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The January 6 Committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled until further notice. Reason is the hurricane about to hit Florida hard.

God seems to be angry at DeSantos.
 
The 6th committee? Cancelled! Artemis? Cancelled! Thanks Ian!
 
ZiprHead said:
www.nbcnews.com

Justice Department sues ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro to produce White House emails

Last December, the National Archives became aware that Navarro had used a personal email account to send and receive official emails while an adviser to the president, the complaint alleges.
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The Department of Justice is suing former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro in an effort to compel him to produce emails from a personal account that he allegedly used to conduct official White House business....Navarro did not copy his official White House account on the email exchanges, nor did he forward the email chains to his White House account, a violation of the Presidential Records Act...The National Archives reached out to Navarro asking him to turn over the missing records, but he never responded, according to the complaint.
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Hmmmm... someone using personal email accounts to handle government business. Where have I heard that before? Too bad he didn't have any prior examples as a guideline...
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You may have missed the point... they are following the past example. If we should investigate Hillary over and over then we should investigate Petey over and over.
 
Cheerful Charlie said:
The January 6 Committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled until further notice. Reason is the hurricane about to hit Florida hard.

God seems to be angry at DeSantos.
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since global warming has been more apparent in weather-related news, I have not heard a whole lot from the Southern Baptists and similar cults about "god's wrath" realized in disaster. Possibly the "flyover" states have it worse than those that have put some forms of controls in place? dunno. just noticing the silence from there.
 
Gun Nut said:
ZiprHead said:
www.nbcnews.com

Justice Department sues ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro to produce White House emails

Last December, the National Archives became aware that Navarro had used a personal email account to send and receive official emails while an adviser to the president, the complaint alleges.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
The Department of Justice is suing former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro in an effort to compel him to produce emails from a personal account that he allegedly used to conduct official White House business....Navarro did not copy his official White House account on the email exchanges, nor did he forward the email chains to his White House account, a violation of the Presidential Records Act...The National Archives reached out to Navarro asking him to turn over the missing records, but he never responded, according to the complaint.
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Hmmmm... someone using personal email accounts to handle government business. Where have I heard that before? Too bad he didn't have any prior examples as a guideline...
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You may have missed the point... they are following the past example. If we should investigate Hillary over and over then we should investigate Petey over and over.
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It wasn't illegal when Hillary did it. It is now.
 
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ZiprHead said:
Gun Nut said:
ZiprHead said:
www.nbcnews.com

Justice Department sues ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro to produce White House emails

Last December, the National Archives became aware that Navarro had used a personal email account to send and receive official emails while an adviser to the president, the complaint alleges.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
The Department of Justice is suing former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro in an effort to compel him to produce emails from a personal account that he allegedly used to conduct official White House business....Navarro did not copy his official White House account on the email exchanges, nor did he forward the email chains to his White House account, a violation of the Presidential Records Act...The National Archives reached out to Navarro asking him to turn over the missing records, but he never responded, according to the complaint.
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Hmmmm... someone using personal email accounts to handle government business. Where have I heard that before? Too bad he didn't have any prior examples as a guideline...
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You may have missed the point... they are following the past example. If we should investigate Hillary over and over then we should investigate Petey over and over.
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It wasn't illegal when Hillary did it. It is now.
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Also, Hillary fully complied with requests from the FBI and the National Archives to give them access to those emails.
 
Jason Harvestdancer said:
A 5/29 Insurrectionist who has been sentenced to prison is asking for "time served".

Firebombing Attorney Begs for Light Sentence
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There were no insurrections nor attempted insurrections in the USA on 29 May of any year in the last century, as far as I can tell.

Firebombing a police cruiser is a serious crime, but it's not an insurrection unless it's in the context of an attempt to seize governmental authority.

And the principle of backdating custodial sentences to the date on which the criminal was first remanded is widespread, and in no sense newsworthy or remarkable for anybody with a passing familiarity with legal processes. It's in no sense a lightening of a sentence, to recognise that it's already been partially served.
 
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