House Jan. 6 committee members to meet Friday on potential criminal recommendations to DOJ – By Bart Jansen (USA Today) / Nov 30, 2022
The panel has already urged the Justice Department to prosecute four Trump aides for contempt of Congress. But these additional referrals could potentially target officials including Trump himself.
- Possible recommendations will come from group of four lawyers on the Jan. 6 committee.
- “We just want to make sure nothing falls between the cracks,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.
- The committee is drafting its final report, aiming to finish before Christmas.
WASHINGTON – The House panel investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, will meet in private Friday to discuss potentially urging the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against Donald Trump and others, and potential civil complaints against lawyers who allegedly behaved unethically, lawmakers said Wednesday.
The possible recommendations will come from a subcommittee of four lawyers on the nine-member panel: Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.; Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Zoe Logren, D-Calif.; and Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. The group is developing recommendations for possible criminal referrals to the Justice Department or civil referrals to state bar associations, but no decisions have been made, said Raskin, who heads the subcommittee.
“We just want to make sure nothing falls between the cracks,” Raskin said. “We want to make sure that the committee is emphatic that those crimes that are of sufficient gravity, that one branch of government essentially needs to tell another about it.”
