Posted on 12/08/2022 8:15:17 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Plans from the House Jan. 6 committee to imminently release its list of criminal referrals is raising questions over how far the panel will go in implicating former President Trump and his allies in a plot that culminated in last year’s deadly attack on the Capitol.
Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters Tuesday that the committee had come to a “general agreement” to send criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
It’s a move that would allow the panel to put a finer point on its more than yearlong investigation, naming names and detailing specific statutes that were violated in an effort they have repeatedly said was a lawless campaign to block the peaceful transfer of power.
And while it would still be up to the Justice Department to act on the recommendations, it could put pressure on a department that, at least publicly, has trailed the committee in its own review of the Capitol riot.
“They stiffen the spine of state and federal prosecutors by encouraging them to act,” Norm Eisen, counsel for Democrats in Trump’s first impeachment, said of the referrals on a call with reporters.
Legal experts have for some time argued there are a number of statutes that could be used for a possible Trump prosecution, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
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I've been saying that for over a year!
A few FR legal eagles say it's not because the action - a "criminal referral" is not punishment, but that's not really true.
Bills of Attainder were developed as a way to cause power to to ooze from the Crown to the Parliament - but the King still had to sign the death warrant.
The prohibition against Bills of Attainder in Article I §9 was coupled with the prohibition of ex post facto laws, and was certainly intended to prevent exactly what we are seeing today.
No need to apologize.
With the world focused on Siknick, who was NOT murdered, the MSM, etc don’t want to talk about the others. Typical propaganda.
We need MLK style Ghandi protests. The only
thing deadly about Jan 6 is the killing of
a female Vet who was unarmed and seated.
I am tired of this propaganda.
We seem like a GOP that does not care how much
the Dems get away with.
Given the number of feds involved in sex, sexual assaults, and affairs lately, stiffening of the spine is not what they’re about.
2 minute hate.
I’m sure that when James Madison wrote the First Amendment, he hoped this kind of thing would happen if anyone actually tried to exercise the rights enumerated in it.
Congress isn’t a grand jury but aren’t the referrals basically a summary of what they say they found out and they’re passing it off to the DOJ for further investigation and then Grand Jury, etc.
The panel can do things and question people in ways that the DOJ cannot, right?
Now the panel has someone on record as saying something. That person can’t recant or change their statement otherwise it’s 18USC1001
The panel acted like really shady private eyes turning their findings over to dirty cops.
Like Deep State’s myrmidons have spines...
SNORT.
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