by Nomad
After a month's delay, the January 6 House-Select Committee today picks up where it left off back in summer. The committee has spent the last 15 months wading through tens of thousands of documents and interviewing more than 1000 witnesses.
This was to be the last of the public hearings, however, given the amount of newly-discovered information gathered from subpoenaed witnesses, there could be further hearings added to the schedule.
Before the postponed meeting back in September, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) gave us this insight:
“There’s such a huge avalanche of information that it becomes difficult towards the end to decide what we’re going to use in a particular context."According to The Hill, the committee will very likely be disbanded at the end of 2022, when control of the House is expected to flip to a Republican majority after November's midterms. In that case, the formal investigation will be over.
Before then, the panel is racing to craft a final report, likely to be issued following the elections, and may issue a preliminary report that could arrive before November. The sheer volume of evidence is affecting the timeline.Today's hearing promises to be something like the closing arguments in a legal case. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said on CNN’s "State of the Union."
"It will tell the story about a key element of Donald Trump's plot to overturn the election. And the public will certainly learn things it hasn't seen before, but it will also understand information it already has in a different context by seeing how it relates to other elements of this plot."Earlier in the week, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. told reporters that the focus would be on Trump’s intentions, including “what he knew, what he did, what others did.”
“I do think that it will be worth watching. There’s some new material that, you know, I found as we got into it, pretty surprising.”
That's what's called "a tease." We will just have to wait and see if this hearing will be as interesting as the past 8 hearings have been.
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The hearing is set for 1 p.m. ET on Thursday. You can watch the proceedings LIVE right here on Nomadic Politics.