Ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Loses Bid to Block Jan. 6th Committee's Subpoena

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Ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Loses Bid to Block Jan. 6th Committee’s Subpoena

ADAM KLASFELD
Oct 31st, 2022, 9:19 pm

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows lost his effort to block a subpoena from the Jan. 6th Committee on Monday, after a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge found the lawmakers were protected by the Constitution’s speech or debate clause.

“Without a doubt, the Select Committee’s investigation of the January 6th attack is legitimately tied to Congress’s legislative functions,” U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols found in a 27-page opinion. “The Court of Appeals held in Trump v. Thompson that the investigation into the causes and circumstances surrounding the breach of the Capitol ‘plainly has a valid legislative purpose.'”

The January 6th Committee issued the subpoena to Meadows in September 2021, with the chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), writing that the ex-chief of staff “engaged in multiple elements of the planning and preparation of efforts” to overturn Trump’s defeat.

Meadows went to federal court later that year in December, asking the judge to “invalidate” the subpoenas.

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[gab13by13]

1. Too late now, time matters.

[malaise]

2. Good

Rec

[msfiddlestix]

3. Courts need to act in a timely manner, this outcome is welcomed, but the timing is woefully

inadequate.

This is just one example of far too many others.

[republianmushroom]

4. He still has the USSC to judge shop like the ORANGE A-O has.