Raskin says committee hearings likely pushed back to April or May.

[CrispyQ]

https://www.salon.com/2022/01/31/has-seized-control-of-the-jan-6-story-while-the-media-and-congress-sleep-on-it/

From the link:

Last week, committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin told Dean Obeidallah in a Salon Talks interview that the planned hearings have been pushed back to "later in the spring, April or May more likely." Raskin blamed the delay on people like Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows for doing the "hokey pokey." Meadows, who has been refusing to cooperate, received a referral for contempt of Congress in December. Democrats are not rising to the moment. It's been seven weeks and Meadows still has not been arrested by Biden's Department of Justice.

So we're going to go authoritarian because we can't keep someone from doing the hokey pokey? JFC.

[Turbineguy]

1. Justice delayed.....

Trump will take advantage of that.

Is this to get the DoJ to jump in?

[Doremus]

2. JFC indeed.

They aren't even trying.

[blm]

3. Bullshit move. Slow-walking has never benefitted Democrats, ever.

[NightWatcher]

4. Don't worry. When the gqp win/steal the House and disband the committee

You'll have all the free time in the world...until they start rounding up Dems.

[everyonematters]

5. The timing is important.

The best time for the critical information to come out in public hearings is in late summer or early fall before the elections. Be patient.

[former9thward]

16. Actually, no.

The closer to the election the more political it will seem. It will be dismissed are pure politics intending to influence the election.

[Celerity]

22. +1, this is a real and potentially very large danger, especially if we get to within 2 or 3 months

of the election

[PTWB]

6. Trump's people are stalling to run out the clock until after the mid-terms.

[Celerity]

23. many journos started started saying this would be their tactic as soon as the Committee was formed

and that was already 7th months ago (July 1, 2021)

The Rethugs are already over halfway there (as there is no way we can pull off hearings 60-90 days (or even closer) to the actual elections without risking being perceived as attempting a ploy (likely by Independents, who we are already getting just hammered by in the polls) designed to spin the election.

[MontanaMama]

7. JFC. What could go wrong?

We will only be in the heat of battle with mid terms...Someone tell me why in the hell Meadows gets to submarine this whole effort? Lock him up.

[PortTack]

8. OFFS! Let them do their job. QUIT criticizing and start showing support for our dem leaders!!

[hamsterjill]

10. OFFS

We’re not supposed to call out the obvious? If you want unquestioning loyalty, I think you need to look at the other side.

[PortTack]

12. ppl here pile on the 1/6 committee because it isn't moving as fast as they like

It’s agreed to here that du members support Dems..not constantly bash them. I choose to support them and frankly don’t care what you think

[hamsterjill]

17. Right back at you.

Don’t care what you think either. Simply marvel at the naïveté.

[PortTack]

18. Yeah well take a look in the mirror at your naive attitude

Rail against the fact that I support Dems...your attitude and anyone who isn’t willing to fully support Dems brought us no voting rights protections and no BBB.

[hamsterjill]

19. Totally inaccurate.

The likes of you support Manchin only because he puts a “D” in front of his name, and look what that’s gotten us?

I’ll gladly support Dems when I see them doing what they are supposed to do. Trump should already be in jail. The stalling benefits only Trump.

Now, can you please go get your video game and go back to playing? Some of us choose to live in the real world.

[PortTack]

21. Unity regardless whether you like them or not is the only way we can win. We don't have voting

Rights or BB because we don’t have a unified front. That isn’t inaccurate, it’s the truth of the matter.

I can see why you don’t understand that concept. Your comment tells the story!

[MineralMan]

15. +100

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I'm 73 years old. I hope I live long enough for

these people to be brought to justice.

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. I think holding the hearings closer to the election is a good thing

Remember, by the time the televised hearing begin, most of the cooperative witnesses will have already testified. The televised hearings won’t likely reveal anything new, but will allow the committee to present a comprehensive summary of their investigation.

Also, there’s a theory (from emptywheel?) that the longer the delay in handling Meadows contempt referral could indicate that Garland may just go straight to a grand jury with a more serious (seditious conspiracy?) superseding indictment…remember, lots of lower level aides (especially Pence staffers) who were in the room when the coup was being developed have been talking to the committee.

Also, Meadows was connected to the fraudulent electors scheme, and that investigation is just getting going…

[PortTack]

13. +1000

[fightforfreedom]

14. I agree with you about meadows.

I also believe the committee's open hearings are being delayed because they keep finding more evidence, which is a good thing.

[Kahuna]

25. Agree. nt

[helpisontheway]

20. Democrats know that by delaying

the hearings they are pretty much assuring that Trump gets away with it. We are very likely to lose the house and then the investigation will end.

[Celerity]

24. and new ones begin (of Dems) ffs

We are very likely to lose the house and then the investigation will end.

[PortTack]

26. The 1/6 committee has said they will wrap up their investigation sometime this summer

If not, Not doubt they will have the DOJ appoint a special prosecutor to finish. They have no intention of letting their findings be swept away by a gqp controlled house.