Category: Jan. 6 committee

Supreme Court Justice Kagan Temporarily Blocks Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena for Phone Records of Arizona GOP Chair

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has temporarily blocked the Jan. 6 Committee’s subpoena seeking phone records belonging to Arizona Republican Party chairwoman Kelly Ward, while the high court considers her emergency appeal. The Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena had asked Ward’s phone carrier, T-Mobile, to produce call and text message records from November 2020 to January 2021. Kagan’s decision on Wednesday…


Crucial Questions Left Unanswered By Jan. 6 Committee After Last Hearing

After its tentative last hearing, the House Jan. 6 Committee has left many crucial questions about the events of that day unanswered, despite its professed goal of getting to the bottom of the Jan. 6 Capitol protest. Though Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) intimated that more hearings may be forthcoming, the committee’s ninth hearing on Oct….


Federal Judge Orders Former Trump Attorney to Release Emails to Jan. 6 Committee

A federal judge has ordered John Eastman, a former attorney for former President Donald Trump, to turn over a number of emails to the House Jan. 6 Committee. The judge determined that some of the emails showed that Trump had signed documents he knew to be false. Judge David O. Carter’s order on Wednesday is…


Trump Criticizes Jan. 6 Committee Over Vote to Subpoena Him, Set to Respond Friday

Former President Donald Trump on Oct. 13 denounced the Jan. 6 committee, after the Democrat-dominated panel voted ​unanimously to subpoena him. “Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account. “Because…


Jan. 6 Committee Presents New Secret Service, White House Records at 9th Meeting

The House January 6 Committee on Oct. 13 met to unveil text messages, testimony, and other never-before-seen records from White House and Secret Service officials. Since its first hearing in June, the members of the committee, which seats seven Democrats and only two Republicans, have made their position on the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal”…


Judge Denies Temporary Block to Jan. 6 Subpoena During Appeal

A Phoenix federal judge on Friday refused Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward’s request to put on hold her own previously issued court order that allowed the Jan. 6 Committee to access the Republican leader’s phone records. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Diane J. Humetewa, an Obama appointee, dismissed Ward’s lawsuit which argued that handing…


Trump Threatens ‘Appropriate Action’ Against Jan. 6 Committee

Former President Donald Trump on Monday said he “may bring appropriate action” against the Jan. 6 Committee. The statement, issued through the Save America political action committee (PAC) and shared on Trump’s Truth Social account, came as part of an announcement about a lawsuit he brought against CNN, alleging defamation. It is unclear whether Trump…


Jan. 6 Committee to Hold Final Hearing On Sept. 28

The U.S. House of Representative committee which is investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol, will be holding its next hearing on the matter on Sept. 28, according to the chairman of the panel. The public hearing on Sept. 28 will likely be final “unless something else develops,” Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told…


Secret Service Official at Heart of Jan. 6 Hearing Retires

Tony Ornato, who was former President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for operations during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, has retired from the U.S. Secret Service. Ornato took on the White House post in December 2019, when the former president made the appointment saying that he was comfortable with Ornato since he had worked…


Secret Service Conveyed Threat Against Pelosi to Capitol Police After Breach: Watchdog

Government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in a recent report criticized the U.S. Secret Service for failing to transmit a threat made against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) on Jan. 6, 2021. CREW’s Aug. 17 report reports email communications between various law enforcement and…