The House committee investigating the Capitol riot will make its final public presentation Monday about the unprecedented effort by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the presidential election he lost in 2020. The committee has called it an 'attempted coup' that warrants criminal prosecution from the Justice Department.
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., left, listens as Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022.
"We are focused on key players where there is sufficient evidence or abundant evidence that they committed crimes," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told reporters last week. "We're focused on crimes that go right to the heart of the constitutional order, such that the Congress can't remain silent." The eight-chapter report will include hundreds of pages of findings about the attack and Trump's efforts to subvert democracy, drawing on what the committee learned through its interviews with more than 1,000 witnesses.
Anticipation for the final report is high. Book publishers are already offering pre-release versions for sale to the public.As the committee convenes one final time, a major legislative response to the insurrection could be on the fast-track to passage. The bill, if passed, would amend the 19th century law that, along with the Constitution, governs how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners, ensuring the popular vote from each state is protected from manipulation and that Congress does not arbitrarily decide presidential elections.
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