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FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland listens during a meeting of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have been increasingly using their public statements, court filings and committee reports to deliver a blunt message to Garland and the Department of Justice to act on their findings. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters outside the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. Meadows, who as chief of staff to President Donald Trump promoted his lies of mass voter fraud, is facing increasing scrutiny about his own voter registration status. Public records show he is registered to vote in two states, including North Carolina, where he listed a mobile home he did not own, and may never have visited, as his legal residence weeks before casting a ballot in the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
FILE - Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. An Alabama man who parked a pickup truck filled with weapons and Molotov cocktail components near the U.S. Capitol on the day of last year's riot was sentenced Friday, April 1, 2022, to nearly four years in prison. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland listens during a meeting of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. The lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have been increasingly using their public statements, court filings and committee reports to deliver a blunt message to Garland and the Department of Justice to act on their findings. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Lawmakers investigating the attack on the Capitol are going public with critical statements and more to send a message to Attorney General Garland and the Department of Justice.

They say that President Donald Trump and his allies committed crimes. It's up to you to do something about it.

Attorney General Garland, do your job so we can do ours.

We are following our responsibility. The Department of Justice needs to do the same.

Their rhetoric this week was focused on two contempt of Congress referrals approved by the committee. They can investigate and issue subpoenas, but only the Justice Department can bring criminal charges.

The case the committee is building against Trump and his allies is a once-in-a- generation circumstance. It could set a dangerous precedent that threatens the foundations of American democracy if it is not fully prosecuted.

Once their work is done, the lawmakers are almost certain to send a criminal referral to the Justice Department.

Garland, who has spent his tenure trying to shield the Justice Department from political pressure, is in a precarious position. Any criminal charges related to January 6 would cause a huge uproar, as they did during the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Trump-Russia influence investigation.

Garland has not given any information about the case against the former president. He promised to hold accountable all the January 6th perpetrators, at any level, and he also said that anyone who was criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy would be held accountable.

It is the largest criminal prosecution in the history of the department for the rioters who entered the Capitol building. More than 750 people have been charged with federal crimes. More than 100 riot defendants have been sentenced and at least 90 others have trial dates.

The committee's and the department's investigations overlap. In late January, Justice opened a probe into a fake slate of electors who tried to vote for Trump in seven swing states that Joe Biden won. More than a dozen people were subpoenaed three days later.

The committee wants more. Their message was amplified this week when a federal judge in California wrote that it was more likely that Trump committed crimes in his attempt.

More than 100 emails from John Eastman, a Trump adviser, were to be released to the committee. Lawmakers zeroed in on a passage in the judge's opinion that characterized Jan. 6 as a coup.

The campaign to overturn a democratic election was launched by Dr. Eastman and President Trump. Their campaign was more than just the ivory tower, it was a coup in search of a legal theory.

Carter's opinion was only in a civil case and does not meet the longstanding charging policy the Justice Department is required to meet. The department faces a higher burden of proof in court to show that presidential immunity should not apply. He said that the legal advice Trump received from the company was not in line with what he had been told.

The social and political ramifications of a decision of this kind will not be far from the minds of Attorney General Garland and his staff.

A decision to bring or not to bring criminal charges will have significant effects.

The judge's ruling was an "absurd and baseless ruling" by a Clinton-appointed Judge in California.

The effort to enforce subpoenas through contempt of Congress charges is a point of contention with the Justice Department.

The House approved a contempt referral against the former White House chief of staff after he stopped cooperating with the panel. The Department of Justice has been slower in deciding whether to prosecute Meadows than it was with Steve Bannon.

The Department of Justice is supposed to defend the Constitution, according to the Republican committee chair.

Senior Justice Department officials would have to decide how to proceed before career prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington made a decision.

It would be more difficult for prosecutors to bring a case against Meadows than it would be against Bannon because he wasn't a White House official during the insurrection.

Senior aides can't be forced to testify if a president invokes executive privilege, according to the Justice Department. The principle that lets the executive branch of the government keep most discussions private is at risk if charges are brought.

While the majority of committee members have put pressure on Garland, one member has not gone as far.

The tradition of respect for the independence of the law enforcement function was trashed during the Trump period. The Department of Justice and attorney general should be allowed to do their job by Congress and the president.

Attorney General Garland is my friend, and I don't beat up on him.

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