Capitol attack panel grapples with moving inquiry forward: to subpoena or not?

[turbinetree]

Hugo Lowell in Washington
Tue 18 Jan 2022 02.00 EST

The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is weighing whether to subpoena some of Donald Trump’s top allies on Capitol Hill as it considers its options on how aggressively it should pursue testimony to move forward its inquiry into the January 6 insurrection.

The Republican House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, and Republican members of Congress Jim Jordan and Scott Perry may have inside knowledge about Trump’s plan to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election and whether it was coordinated with the Capitol attack.

But the outright refusal of McCarthy and the other Republican lawmakers to testify voluntarily with the investigation has intensified discussions among the panel’s members and investigators about whether to force their cooperation.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/17/us-capitol-attack-panel-inquiry-subpoena

Blackmail is still Blackmail.....and if anyone knows or was a part of crime then they must be held accountable....no one and I mean no one is above the law.....sedition is still fucking sedition, conspiracy is still fucking conspiracy.....


Time to make a phone call.....

United States Capitol switchboard at [phone].

[NewHendoLib]

1. Grappling .. why!? If the tables were turned would they grapple?

[budkin]

2. "Grappling..."

What does that even mean?

[onecaliberal]

3. Fuck that, subpoenas now! What is wrong with them.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. You Or I Are Not Above The Law

Plenty of others are, apparently.

Sad reality is that they're going to successfully run out the clock, at least on the House investigation.

Nothing has changed my view that there will be no accountability where it matters.

[intrepidity]

5. "Politicians wrangle with dilemma over who is above the law"

There, fixed the headline.

[turbinetree]

6. Exactly....................

[Mz Pip]

7. What's the point of the investigation

if they won’t follow through? Why bother having an investigation at all if they aren’t going to bother getting witnesses to testify?

[bahboo]

8. Do unto them, as they would do unto us...

[gab13by13]

9. The select committee doesn't have the clout of DOJ,

if DOJ is waiting for referrals from the select committee before it acts the game clock expires. Everything the select committee does now will have to go clear to the SC.

The select committee's referral of Mark Meadows has been sitting at DOJ for 34 days.

[Autumn]

10. to subpoena or not? What the fuck.

Crimes are fucking crimes. No matter who commits them.

We are so fucked.