Tag Archives: January 6

Margaret M. Russell, Santa Clara University After 18 months investigating, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol held its final public meeting on Dec. 19, 2022. The panel recommended that the U.S. Department of Justice bring criminal charges against former President Donald …

Claire Leavitt, Smith College After 18 months, more than 1,200 interviews and 10 public hearings that presented 70 witnesses’ testimony, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack released its 845-page final report late on Dec. 22, 2022. The report recommended that the Department of Justice prosecute former …

Jacob Fischler, Arkansas Advocate The U.S. House Jan. 6 committee late Thursday published its findings in a nearly 850-page report that accused former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection and recommended Congress consider how to determine whether those found to be insurrectionists should be barred from holding office ever …

A federal investigation into former President Donald Trump appeared to enter a new phase this month, according to reporting Tuesday that the U.S. House panel probing the January 6 attack on the Capitol is “extensively cooperating” with Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to lead Trump investigations. Punchbowl News reported …

A federal judge on Friday sentenced an Iowa man to five years in prison for leading the mob that chased U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman on Jan. 6, 2021. Douglas Jensen, of Des Moines, was convicted by a jury in September of five felony and two misdemeanor counts, including …

Former President Donald Trump took to his beleaguered social media app late Saturday to lash out against the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection following reports that the panel is planning to use its final meeting Monday to recommend criminal charges against the former president and 2024 White House …

A pair of progressive advocacy groups launched a petition on Friday to pressure the U.S. House of Representatives not to seat returning members who supported the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The petition, led by Free Speech for People and MoveOn, takes aim at three Republican members of …

Two men – including the founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys – were each sentenced today to four years in prison for their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of …

With Republicans poised to take control of he U.S. House of Representatives in January, the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will likely be dissolved in the coming weeks. But Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told constituents this week that the committee will issue a final report …

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was convicted Tuesday by a federal jury of seditious conspiracy for his leading role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump and his “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election …

The Tennessee man who dragged former DC Police Officer Michael Fanone into the mob on Jan. 6 was sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison for initiating one of the most violent assaults on law enforcement that day. Albuquerque Cosper Head, a construction worker from Johnson City, Tennessee, pleaded …

Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams As former President Donald Trump faced an onslaught of criticism and ridicule over his “rambling” 14-page response Friday to a subpoena from the U.S. House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, calls for action by the Department of Justice continued to mount. The …

Jacob Fischler, Arizona Mirror The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump, saying the former president must be held accountable as the “central cause” of a violent attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel’s …

Jacob Fischler, Louisiana Illuminator The U.S. House committee investigating a pro-Trump mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is back. It will hold its first hearing in nearly three months Thursday — and potentially its last. In a break from most of the panel’s previous eight hearings in …

An Ohio pastor who allegedly pushed against police barricades and used a megaphone to incite the crowd on Jan. 6 was charged this week with two felonies and five other misdemeanor counts. William Dunfee, 57, of Frazeysburg, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday on felony counts of obstruction of an official proceeding …