The new date is Jun 14, 2022.
The House January 6 Committee has started making a public case against former President Donald Trump and his allies in a series of hearings.
The president spoke at a rally in January of 2021.
Lawmakers can make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice but they can't charge anyone with a crime.
The goal of the committee is not to determine whether or not Trump committed a crime, according to a lawmaker.
The Justice Department doesn't need a criminal referral from Congress to investigate a potential crime, and if it gets a criminal referral, it doesn't have to act on it.
The chair of the committee, Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), said they wouldn't bring any referrals.
The New York Times reported in April that the committee will publicly release its findings if the Justice Department chooses to use them.
The attorney general has said that he and federal prosecutors are watching the hearings, but he has not commented on whether charges could be brought.
Is Trump going to be charged? Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade told the New Yorker that the president could be charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States or obstruction of an official proceeding for his attempts to overturn the election. Lawmakers detailed how the Trump campaign asked supporters to donate to a fund that was supposed to be used for post- election work, but instead was used for other Trump-related groups. It would be difficult to prove that Trump acted with criminal intent and knew his fraud allegations were false according to legal experts. It's difficult to put together an "airtight criminal prosecution" that would convince a jury of that. It is likely that it will be difficult to bring fraud charges over the alleged donation issues.
Garland said that all perpetrators who are criminally responsible for January 6 will be held accountable. Wherever they lead, we're going to follow the facts.
In his response to the first House hearings, Trump denied any involvement in the January 6 attack on the Capitol building or the election being rigged. The ex-president accused the House committee of putting on a smoke and mirrors show for the American public and deceiving them again.
At least six more hearings are scheduled to take place in the coming weeks, laying out Trump's plan to overturn the election and how he "summoned" the mob of supporters that attacked the Capitol in January. The report will be released in the fall.
A majority. The Justice Department should probably or definitely bring legal action against elected officials who attempt to overturn an election, according to a Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted in June, which found that a majority of voters support legal action against officials who have lied. A majority of people blame Trump for the January 6 attack, but that is down from the previous year.
The January 6 committee argued that Trump was at the center of a conspiracy to overturn the election results andvert American democracy. During the first hearing, Cheney argued that Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the fire of the attack. In a court filing in March, the committee said it had a good-faith basis to believe that Trump and his associates had engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the US. More than 800 people have been arrested by the Justice Department for their role in the attack.
Riot defendants say Trump asked them to storm the capitol.
The hearing shows rioters repeating Trump's baseless election claims.
There is a two-pronged test that could put Trump in prison.
The road map for prosecuting Trump was laid out by the committee.
The panel wondered if the criminal referral of Trump was necessary. It's calledPolitico.
The January 6 committee won't criminally refer Trump or others to DOJ, despite Thompson's claims.
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