Tag Archives: January 6 hearings

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The House January 6 committee’s first series of public hearings came to a close Thursday with a primetime event featuring fresh evidence that former President Donald Trump gave a “green light” to the right-wing mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol last year and ignored pleas to …

Jennifer Selin, Wayne State University As the Jan. 6 committee’s hearings pass their halfway point, they have brought new details to light that explain the events of the attack on the Capitol and place them in context of a larger effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In the first …