For the third time this month, the Jan. 6 committee meets to expose evidence that its investigators have argued that former President Donald Trump’s tender underbelly was a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results.
On Thursday, June 16, the selection committee will focus on how the plan specifically targeted former Vice President Mike Pence and how longtime conservative attorney John Eastman declared the 45th president unconstitutional. Encouraging principles helped advance this agenda as the nation stood in the way of a deadly uprising. The US Capitol in which many people were killed and hundreds injured.
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Today’s hearing will begin at 1 p.m. Two additional hearings are still scheduled for June 21 and June 23. Both should air on ET at 1 p.m. As of Thursday morning, the committee had not yet announced whether / when it would actually include the sixth hearing in the schedule as scheduled after last week’s adjournment. Time is subject to change.
If the witness. Michael Lutig, a former judge whose legal advice Pence acknowledged in determining that he could not stop the unilateral count, will testify on Thursday.
According to his remarks, Lutig will tell lawmakers that Eastman’s legal plan presented to former President Donald Trump was closed and that the run-off election was ruined from the outset.
“From their inception, the legal arguments that led to the reversal of the 2020 election were, In that contextPerhaps suitable for academic classroom debate, a little more than deceptive and frivolous, but solitary InAppropriate as advice to the President of the United States in an attempt to reverse the presidential election – an election that he lost fairly and squarely and which was not then, and is not to this day, evidence of fraud, “Lutig said.
If. Michael Lutig Opening Statement June 16, 2022 on Scribd by Daily Kos
“The law is not a game for presidents Or use the judge to remake the world in his favorite image.
This is the position of Greg Jacob, a lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence, who described how, from December 2020 to January 2021, he and Pence “analyzed the different theories of unilateral vice-presidential power that we have presented.” And we explained the reasons. It is incompatible with the constitution and the law. “
Gregory Jacob comments on Scribd by the Daily Cos
Jacob said the vice president’s legal team is fully prepared to face any challenge to the constitutionality of the Electoral Counts Act. The Commission is reviewing the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and its statutory history and the articles of every law written on the constitutionality of the Electoral Count Act.
Jacob argued that no one could accuse Pence of not knowing what the laws were and what his officials did or did not do.
The committee’s position on developing legislation or amending existing legislation, such as the Electoral Counts Act, therefore cannot be a “January 6 revision,” has been re-shared with Jacob.
“The new laws will make a difference if we do not first instill in our citizens and demand from our leaders continued loyalty to our Constitution and the rule of law. It means you always follow them, no matter how painful, you stand up for them, no matter what the cost, “he wrote.
Suggesting the committee to consult with Alexander Hamilton’s “received” words on Federalist No. 68, Jacob quoted the founding father as saying:
“The constitution does not make the appointment of a president dependent on any pre-existing men’s body,” he warned, adding that it could be subject to “competence, conspiracy and corruption”. For this reason, the Constitution prohibits senators and representatives from serving as voters. Which can disturb the community with abnormal or violent movements.
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Updates from introductory remarks by Chairman Benny Thomson and Vice-Chair Liz Cheney.
They are setting the stage today, explaining how Trump pressured Pence to go ahead with a plan to prevent a peaceful transfer of power that he knew, VP Pence’s chief of staff. According to Mark Short’s testimony, it was not legal.
Short told committee members in a recorded video statement that Trump had been told that Eastman’s strategy was not legal.
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January 6 Committee member Rip. Pete Aguilar said today that the public will hear more about how Pence faced public and private pressure, which was finally “created for the January 6 fever pitch.”
“We also hear that Trump knew there was a violent mob in the Capitol when he tweeted that Pence did not have the courage to do what needed to be done,” says Aguilar.
The committee is now presenting witnesses.
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Lutig said he was “deeply disappointed” with the plan Eastman had launched with Trump to reverse the election, and did not utter a word, giving a formal testimony on Thursday: Would be equal. Revolution.
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Trump’s lawyer, Pat Cipolon, thought John Eastman’s strategy was “naughty,” as Mark Short testified in a video deposition.
Short also said that Trump’s lawyers agree with Pence’s team on Pence’s explanation that the vice president does not have the power to choose the current president as Eastman had said and that Trump had been told a lot.
In another clip of White House attorney Eric Hershman’s testimony, Hershman told the committee that when he made it clear to Eastman that if his theory fails, violence will follow.
Eastman replied:
“There has been violence in the history of our country to defend the republic.”
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The committee also presented texts that ran from Fox News host Sean Hannity to Trump’s former chief of staff through January 6.
Hunty was worried.
He was worried about the “next 48 hours” and the bad things to come if the White House counsel granted bail and effectively ended the plan.