Washington — The Home Jan. 6 committee is holding what is anticipated to be its last assembly on Monday, the place members will vote on formally adopting the committee’s last report and potential felony referrals to the Justice Division.
The proceedings mark the end result of the panel’s almost 18-month-long investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol, which featured testimony from dozens of witnesses and a collection of high-profile hearings that examined the assault and former President Donald Trump’s position in stoking his supporters to storm the constructing. CBS Information will air the assembly as a particular report at 1 p.m. ET on CBS tv stations and its streaming community.
The committee is anticipated to make felony referrals to the Justice Division for potential prosecution, though the members haven’t confirmed who they’ll refer.
Referrals by Congress are solely suggestions, and the Justice Division is beneath no obligation to deliver fees in opposition to these referred for prosecution. Nonetheless, the committee’s referrals might improve political stress on the division to behave, and lawmakers might unveil new proof of their last report that federal prosecutors haven’t but accessed.
The committee has already issued referrals for a number of Trump associates who refused to adjust to subpoenas to seem earlier than the committee, together with former adviser Steve Bannon, who was tried and convicted on two charges of contempt of Congress.
In November, Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland named Jack Smith as special counsel to supervise the Justice Division’s personal probes into the previous president, together with alleged efforts to intrude with the switch of energy within the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, one of many members of the committee, mentioned Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he believes, as a former prosecutor, that the division has collected “ample” proof to cost Trump. Schiff told “Face the Nation” on Dec. 11 that he believes the Justice Division has “made use” of proof offered within the committee’s hearings, and can do the identical for the knowledge included in its report.
Trump has maintained he did nothing unsuitable on Jan. 6, and that the investigation by what he calls the “Unselect Committee of political hacks” is a “witch hunt.”
The committee is sunsetting earlier than the subsequent Congress takes over in January. 4 of its members usually are not returning to Congress: Rep. Liz Cheney lost the Republican primary in Wyoming in August to a Trump-backed challenger; Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria lost in the general election in November; and Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy opted to not run for reelection.