Hang 'em.
The committee filed a motion for summary judgment late Friday night that sets out to prove Meadows' centrality to Jan. 6 and former President Trump's efforts to overturn the election – and the relevance of his testimony.
You can read the Jan 6th Committee's motion for summary judgment here january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Meadows, who handed over some documents to the panel before refusing to testify and ceasing his cooperation, is challenging the legality of its subpoenas. The motion is aimed at defeating Meadows' lawsuit and forcing him to sit for testimony.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former executive assistant to Meadows, testified that at least ten lawmakers – mostly members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus – met with Meadows on Dec. 21, 2020, according to the filing.
Some of the members professed belief in a legal theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence could unilaterally reject electoral votes on Jan. 6, Hutchinson said.
Ah, a Christmas Coup. How heartwarming
Guess who was there? She named Reps. Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louie Gohmert, Jody Hice, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, and Scott Perry (R-Pa.), but said a "handful" of others were present or dialed in as well.
If you needed to repel an invasion of zombie lepers by meeting them with something worse - there's your team.
She testified that in a December meeting that included Meadows, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's associates, the White House Counsel's office raised concerns about a plan to have alternate electors cast votes for Trump and that this plan was "not legally sound."
The filing also sheds more light on the origins of an assertion committee members have made with increasing intensity in recent weeks: that Trump's inner circle was forewarned about the possibility of violence on Jan. 6.
Hutchinson testified that people "brought information forward" to Meadows that "indicated that there could be violence on the 6th."
Specifically, she said, then-White House chief of operations Anthony Ornato raised concerns about intel reports warning of potential violence and Meadows responded, "All right. Let's talk about it."
Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a statement, "It’s essential that the American people fully understand Mr. Meadows’s role in events before, on, and after January 6th."
"The Select Committee’s filing today urges the Court to reject Mark Meadows’s baseless claims and put an end to his obstruction of our investigation ... His attempt to use the courts to cover up that information must come to an end.”
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Hang 'em High!
They should be banned from running for public office again, at the least.
