Yesterday, Trump’s crackerjack-box legal team asked the Supreme Court to block the release of documents to the January 6 committee. The reason? They might actually discover Trump and his people did something wrong.
, “Binnall said the committee is acting as ‘an inquisitorial tribunal seeking evidence of criminal activity,’ which he said is ‘outside of any of Congress’s legislative powers.’”
Trump’s lawyers put this argument before the D.C. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently, only to have that courtlike a Venus Williams backhand. “The mere prospect that misconduct might be exposed does not make the Committee’s request prosecutorial,” the court opined a month ago. “Missteps and misbehavior are common fodder for legislation.”
Furthermore, it is entirely within the purview of the committee to recommend proper legal steps be taken in the event they discover criminal misconduct. Everything else they do is investigatory, for informational purposes only. A criminal conduct referral is the only club they have in the bag, and if they do use it, duty to follow through will fall upon Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice.$1.
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