January 6 Public Hearings

Jan 6 cmte is still conducting hearings

Lindsay has been trying to evade a Grand Jury inquiry into his phone calls to Georgia trying to 'find votes' - all the way up to the SCOTUS, who denied his request for a stay. Graham tried to allege his phone call to GA was protected by the Speech and Debate clause (protects Congress members from being 'questioned in any other place' for their speech and debate in the Congress), but neither the phone call recipients nor he were on the senate floor when he made the call. Graham will have to testify now. New date not yet scheduled AFAIK

I'm not sure on the exact timeline, the cmte must finish and publish its report probably before the end of the term. At that point, once their findings have all been transmitted to DOJ, the GOP control of congress let's presume, can pound as much sand as it wants and make as many investigations as it wants but the DOJ could still independently act on any information they already have.

Oh yeah they can for sure find ways to trot out any member of the administration to the Hill but they won't have the power or the votes to impeach or remove anybody. The worst a lameduck senate would do is block confirmation of new appointees - but if Biden so desired, Trump left the WH a playbook on using interim appointments that are then never ultimately the subject of needing to be confirmed: the agency head resigns and a subordinate already working in the same agency gets the acting hat.

During the ceremony where they were awarded their Congressional Gold Medals, Mitch tried to solicit handshakes from Capitol police officers who saved their asses on January 6. Kevin would later move to attempt to block them being awarded these medals, and Mitch wasn't much better when he flipped from condemning january 6 and blaming Trump as responsible for it, to saying he could not be impeached for it. Each recipient seen here openly snubbing them:

Are you suggesting that was necessary to the plans outlined goals?

Or simply trying to gaslight because you already know that January 6th was about January 7th, not a 2nd revolutionary war.

Ari Melber is on tour publishing copies of the report, here's his longform seminar about what he summarizes the report, and observes how a) the 2nd impeachment of donald trump was a tip of an iceberg (my words not his), and b) even the mandate for forming the jan 6 cmte was the tip of a bigger iceberg - ie. they were formed to investigate "the 6th" not "a coup"

"This was a coup."

Flannery's opener is a real snoozer imo though, poetry and adhd asides :)