Thursday’s Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Will Be Last Until July

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 13: Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., flanked by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks during the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Committee ... UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 13: Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., flanked by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks during the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Committee Full Committee markup hearing of the "Report Recommending that the House of Representatives Cite Mark Randall Meadows for Criminal Contempt of Congress" on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021 (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The Jan. 6 Committee has rescheduled its upcoming hearings, with more to take place in July, panel Co-Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told reporters on Wednesday.

The Committee has a hearing scheduled for Thursday, which will apparently be the last until at least next month.

“The Select Committee continues to receive additional evidence relevant to our investigation into the violence of January 6th and its causes,” a committee aide told TPM. “Following tomorrow’s hearing, we will be holding additional hearings in the coming weeks. We will announce dates and times for those hearings soon.”

Thompson told reporters that the panel’s next hearings will take place in July, Politico’s Kyle Cheney tweeted.

Thompson reportedly said that the hearings were being delayed in part due to new evidence that the committee had received, citing new tips, documents from the National Archives, and footage from a documentary about Trump’s last days in office.

It’s not clear when in July the next hearings will take place.

The Thursday hearing will focus on former President Trump’s attempts to enlist the DOJ in his campaign to overturn the election. As part of that effort, he tried to install a DOJ official named Jeffrey Clark as attorney general, before the effort failed amid opposition from senior DOJ officials.

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  1. The question I had yesterday about what Arizona Rusty Bowers would do now that he’s seen how crass and criminal Republicans can be seems to have an answer:

    A quote from today’s Guardian newspaper:

    “If he is the nominee, if he was up against Biden, I’d vote for him again,” Bowers told the Associated Press in an interview. “Simply because what he did the first time, before Covid, was so good for the county. In my view it was great.

  2. What amazes me is the breadth of Trump’s effort to steal the election. He just kept committing crimes and when thwarted moved on to a new criminal activity.

  3. It’s how he “succeeded” in business. Pull out every stop until you exhaust the other side. If only he’d shown such motivation and initiative in, say, fighting Covid.

    I’m wondering what the Committee is planning for the last hearing. And how great was Liz taunting Cippione?

  4. For me, he scary part is 1) the number of Republican politicians actively engaged in the criminal scandal and 2) the number of Republican politicians looking the other way. Taken together, it is seems to be the entire party except for a few notable exceptions.

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