Posted on Jun 8, 2022
What past hearings can tell us about the road ahead for the Jan. 6 committee
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It’s been 50 years since the Watergate break-in precipitated the greatest political scandal of its time.
Now, the nation awaits hearings for another major scandal: the Jan. 6 insurrection.
What can we learn from Watergate?
Now, the nation awaits hearings for another major scandal: the Jan. 6 insurrection.
What can we learn from Watergate?
What past hearings can tell us about the road ahead for the Jan. 6 committee
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Jan. 6 committee: Panel got a boost from a ruling on a confidential memo. What's next?
Trump's silence will be contrasted at the hearings with officials who took action.
Pence, in his role as Senate president, refused to reject electors from contested states, as one of Trump’s lawyers, John Eastman, urged during an Oval Office meeting Jan. 4, according to court records. Eastman continued sending messages Jan. 6 to Pence’s counsel, Greg Jacob, who concluded the legal reasoning was “essentially entirely made up,” according to court records.
Trump considered ousting acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen during his final weeks in office, to replace him with someone who would contest the election results. Trump relented after top Justice Department officials threatened to resign as a group if Rosen were removed.
Luria said the hearings will show who took the right action leading up to and including Jan. 6. She said what stood out for her was Trump’s duty under a clause in the Constitution that says the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
“It essentially says that the president has the duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed,” said Luria, a former Navy commander. “To me, that is something that can be woven through all of this because the president has an explicit duty in the Constitution.”
..."Jan. 6 committee: Panel got a boost from a ruling on a confidential memo. What's next?
Trump's silence will be contrasted at the hearings with officials who took action.
Pence, in his role as Senate president, refused to reject electors from contested states, as one of Trump’s lawyers, John Eastman, urged during an Oval Office meeting Jan. 4, according to court records. Eastman continued sending messages Jan. 6 to Pence’s counsel, Greg Jacob, who concluded the legal reasoning was “essentially entirely made up,” according to court records.
Trump considered ousting acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen during his final weeks in office, to replace him with someone who would contest the election results. Trump relented after top Justice Department officials threatened to resign as a group if Rosen were removed.
Luria said the hearings will show who took the right action leading up to and including Jan. 6. She said what stood out for her was Trump’s duty under a clause in the Constitution that says the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
“It essentially says that the president has the duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed,” said Luria, a former Navy commander. “To me, that is something that can be woven through all of this because the president has an explicit duty in the Constitution.”
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Just another fact of Donald's criminality. He has been sued 4,000 times and has countersued with mostly failures.
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