Posted on Jun 9, 2022
A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded — including who said what and when
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January 6, 2021, was a Wednesday. A joint session of Congress was set to convene in the U.S. Capitol to certify Joe Biden's electoral vote win. Meanwhile, thousands of Donald Trump supporters gathered near the White House to hear him speak at noon ET.
Tensions were high on Capitol Hill. Protesters swarmed lawmakers outside.
Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., was exasperated as protesters surrounded him on the steps of the Russell Senate Office Building at around 11:30 a.m.
January 6, 2021, was a Wednesday. A joint session of Congress was set to convene in the U.S. Capitol to certify Joe Biden's electoral vote win. Meanwhile, thousands of Donald Trump supporters gathered near the White House to hear him speak at noon ET.
Tensions were high on Capitol Hill. Protesters swarmed lawmakers outside.
Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., was exasperated as protesters surrounded him on the steps of the Russell Senate Office Building at around 11:30 a.m.
A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded — including who said what and when
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."6. What should be done to prevent similar attacks on democracy?
The committee also wants to share policy prescriptions to keep this from ever happening again.
One idea members seem to be coalescing around is reforming the Electoral Count Act, a law dating to the 1880s that governs how Congress approves states’ electoral votes. Lawmakers want to make it much harder for members of Congress to challenge states’ results and make it crystal clear that the vice president, who presides over the process, can’t override the will of voters while counting the votes.
But states, not Congress, control elections. So Congress has limited power to prevent state lawmakers or secretaries of state from overriding the popular vote. Before Trump set his sights on stopping the certification of the vote in Congress, he was pressuring state officials to overturn results in Georgia and Michigan, among others.
The committee has also been looking at how Trump may have abused or considered abusing emergency power laws. These laws could have allowed the military to seize voting machines and require a rerun of the election. Trump also could have declared martial law, imposing curfews and essentially extending his leadership indefinitely.
There’s no proof Trump considered declaring martial law. But texts the committee got from Meadows reveal a litany of top Republicans — including lawmakers such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — encouraging him to keep going with his fraud claims or even to declare martial law.
The possibility so spooked the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, that he talked with other military leaders about resigning rather than participate in what would have amounted to a coup attempt, Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker wrote in their book “I Alone Can Fix It.”
The committee might not delve fully into proposed solutions until September, when it plans to release a report on its findings and hold one final hearing before the midterm elections."
..."6. What should be done to prevent similar attacks on democracy?
The committee also wants to share policy prescriptions to keep this from ever happening again.
One idea members seem to be coalescing around is reforming the Electoral Count Act, a law dating to the 1880s that governs how Congress approves states’ electoral votes. Lawmakers want to make it much harder for members of Congress to challenge states’ results and make it crystal clear that the vice president, who presides over the process, can’t override the will of voters while counting the votes.
But states, not Congress, control elections. So Congress has limited power to prevent state lawmakers or secretaries of state from overriding the popular vote. Before Trump set his sights on stopping the certification of the vote in Congress, he was pressuring state officials to overturn results in Georgia and Michigan, among others.
The committee has also been looking at how Trump may have abused or considered abusing emergency power laws. These laws could have allowed the military to seize voting machines and require a rerun of the election. Trump also could have declared martial law, imposing curfews and essentially extending his leadership indefinitely.
There’s no proof Trump considered declaring martial law. But texts the committee got from Meadows reveal a litany of top Republicans — including lawmakers such as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — encouraging him to keep going with his fraud claims or even to declare martial law.
The possibility so spooked the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, that he talked with other military leaders about resigning rather than participate in what would have amounted to a coup attempt, Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker wrote in their book “I Alone Can Fix It.”
The committee might not delve fully into proposed solutions until September, when it plans to release a report on its findings and hold one final hearing before the midterm elections."
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Why did Pelosi deny repeated requests for added security days before 1/6? Why doesn't Pelosi release all the video footage from that day? Why haven't the embedded FBI agents been interrogated?
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