The text of the resolution is now available.
Highlights from Ryan Goodman:
Looks like it covers the bases, from what Goodman says.
Another open thread!
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The text of the resolution is now available.
Highlights from Ryan Goodman:
.@SpeakerPelosi Bill to establish #Jan6 #SelectCommittee:
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 28, 2021
"The Speaker shall appoint 13 Members to the Select Committee, 5 of whom shall be appointed after consultation with the minority leader."
Maybe Members who vote against this Bill should be considered disqualified. pic.twitter.com/uWWUAFymQO
3. Judicious use of these powers? in public hearings could be an enormous benefit to the public and to truth-seeking.
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 28, 2021
Questioning for longer than 5-minutes
Questioning by staff of the Select Committee pic.twitter.com/W329ZxMbcZ
5/5 Link to full text of bill to establish January 6 Select Committee:https://t.co/m0LdQ5Thhv (h/t @kadiagoba)
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 28, 2021
Recommended reading alongside it (by @anne_tindall @g_tudor):https://t.co/PRW5BKATZH
Looks like it covers the bases, from what Goodman says.
Another open thread!
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Adam L Silverman
It is exactly the same format and language that was used to create the Benghazi Select Committee. Which I’m sure was deliberate so that when McCarthy starts complaining to everyone that will put a video camera and microphone in front of him, Pelosi can say: “I modeled the whole thing on your Benghazi Select Committee, what’s the problem?”
Cheryl Rofer
@Adam L Silverman: Sauce for the goose…
sab
Am I naive (french bottled water spelled backwards) or do the Republicans in the House phuck themselves everytime they refuse to cooperate with Pelosi and let her do her own thing?
Baud
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Mary G
Mary G
JMG
Pelosi said she is considering appointing a Republican member (for a 7-6 split) on her own. Liz Cheney come on down. Better yet, no Republican accepts such a poisoned chalice, proving it’s the party of Trump now and forevermore.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Excellent news!
@Adam L Silverman:
Plus, when the Republicans complain, Dems can reply that they tried the bipartisan route and R’s rejected it
SiubhanDuinne
When do we start putting together our dream list of Select Committee members? I’d like to see some overlap with the Second Impeachment House Managers — Jamie Raskin in particular. I wonder who Qevin will choose to represent the minority party? And does Madam Speaker have veto power over his choices? If he tries to name Greene or Boebert or Crenshaw or Cawthorn, can she just go all Nancy STOMP on his ass and make him pick someone else?
Joey Maloney
NANCY SMASH
…that’s it, that’s my post.
Mary G
Great coms. She knows where to stick the stiletto heel.
Elizabelle
@Mary G: I’m not sad. We are better with whichever team Nancy Smash decides upon.
And when we see a letter writer or journalist telling us that a Democratic-led investigation is/will be seen as illegitimate — keep that receipt. They just outed themselves again, carrying that water.
Bruuuuce
I sincerely hope she doesn’t fall into the trap of trying to appear bipartisan:
Cheryl Rofer
@SiubhanDuinne: Good idea. Who would y’all like to see on the committee?
Bruuuuce
Best laugh of the day:
Marjorie Traitor Greene wants a seat on the Select Committee
Philbert
Will DOJ enforce any and all subpoenas? This is big, lately they have been optional.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Given that the Committee might end up investigating actions by some of those weasels, I do not see how they could land their unqualified butts on it.
Davis X. Machina
@SiubhanDuinne:
No one running for anything.
Let them get their own B-roll.
Adam L Silverman
@Cheryl Rofer: Without a doubt.
The only question is whether the GOP does for McCarthy what they’ve spent the last four days doing for McConnell.
Elizabelle
@Bruuuuce: Trap? Nancy Smash might be choosing someone who is more likely to know where some bodies are buried, and to have an axe to grind too. Trap for who? Bring it on.
Elizabelle
@Bruuuuce: Perhaps she will end up in a seat before it. Flanked by lawyers. Real ones. Same for Qbert.
Redshift
@SiubhanDuinne:
The chair decides on subpoenas and whether a member gets to speak for more than five minutes, so I’d say if they want to load up the committee with trolls who only want to perform for their own personal benefit rather than respond effectively, let them.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: She has final say on who is on the committee, including the people McCarthy picks.
My guess is that the chair will be Val Demings, which will amplify her ahead of her run against Micro Rubio.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m out of the loop. What’s been going on with the Turtle?
Adam L Silverman
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): He spent Friday through today working the NY Times, WaPo, CNN, Politico, Axios, etc that Biden had betrayed the GOP senators and American by linking the bipartisan infrastructure bill with the Democrats only reconciliation infrastructure bill. The news media ate it up and their reporting used his framing without batting an eyelash at it.
Redshift
@Elizabelle: Yep, the only proper response to that is “Republicans torpedoed the bipartisan commission because they know the truth is bad for them and they don’t want it to come out. Democrats don’t need to be partisan, to quote Truman, just tell the truth and they’ll think it’s hell.”
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Elizabelle:
Maybe she’ll even refuse the subpoena if called and will go to jail for refusing to appear
JoyceH
@Bruuuuce:
Gee, maybe before her juvenile antics got her kicked off all the regular committees she was on, she should have considered the some day there might be a committee she would like to be on. Too late now, Empty Gee.
Bruuuuce
@Elizabelle: Are there really any Republicans you can trust in the House? Even Liz Cheney, out of favor though she is, is still a member of the party, and unlikely IMNSHO to do as good a job at investigating her peers as any Democrat.
Bruuuuce
@Elizabelle: Re MTG: We can only hope. It would be, as the old joke about lawyers goes, a good start.
The Moar You Know
@SiubhanDuinne: There’s four. Gaetz will be the fifth. I’m serious. They will send their very worst.
Martin
@Bruuuuce: 10 GOPs voted to impeach Trump. I’d be surprised if anyone outside of those 10 get named.
Bruuuuce
@JoyceH: Yep. That should be the short and sweet response if she tries to shoehorn in.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
He will say what Republicans around here always say: “Apples and oranges.”
Adam L Silverman
@Bruuuuce: I think both Kizinger and Meijier could be trusted on this. Both have received significant amounts of threats and abuse and in the case of Meijier, his family has been repeatedly threatened.
Bruuuuce
@Martin: I would, too. But honestly, do you want the Dems to give up a valuable seat even to one of those ten?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@The Moar You Know: And the Speaker will just not appoint them.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh, that. I saw that and was infuriated at it. At this point, Biden and Dems should just go “fuck it”, and pass everything under reconciliation
Bruuuuce
@Adam L Silverman: Given Kinzinger’s recent high-profile repudiation of The Former Guy, he may not want the additional exposure to threats — or, vice versa, he might revel in the spotlight. I’d still rather have a Democrat.
Percysowner
@The Moar You Know: Or Jim Jordon, then Nancy will say, We’ve consulted and NO, pick someone who looks slightly sane. It will be interesting which Republican Representatives get on the committee. Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger would be acceptable.
Martin
@SiubhanDuinne: McCarthy doesn’t get to choose. My guess is at best, Pelosi gives him those 10 GOPs who voted for impeachment and has him pick 5. At worst, Pelosi picks 5 and asks McCarthy to identify any that should be referred to the ethics committee for whatever infractions cause McCarthy to want them off the committee.
JWR
I’ve been waiting all day for the Big News that was supposed to drop (plop) out of Arizona today, and all I got was this, about a new QAnon “film”.
As soon as I got to the bit about the CIA, I thought they were about to be outed as an election rigger. Sadly, no!
SiubhanDuinne
@Adam L Silverman:
She would be a wonderful choice!
James E Powell
@Adam L Silverman:
An excellent choice. Staff is critical and that will be mostly people we’ve never heard of.
Adam L Silverman
@Bruuuuce: That’s the rub on this. If she puts any of the three responsible Republicans on the committee, she just puts a larger target on their backs.
My guess is that McCarthy will want to put Gym Jordan on as the ranking member. Stefanik because he needs a woman he can trust to act like Gym. And then it’ll be three others who will also act out. My guess one would be Gohmert because he used to be a judge. And the former dirty cop from Louisiana. And then just pick any other one Republican with a law degree. Or whose good at the mic. They all act equally weird all the time.
Martin
@Bruuuuce: If it gives the commission credibility? Sure. My guess is that it’s a threat to put Cheney on the commission, which would make her ranking member.
RaflW
@Bruuuuce: I think being able to walk and chew gum is a minimum qualification to being “Select” grade or higher. Marge fails.
NotMax
Ploy to take the focus off Benghazi.
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marcopolo
@Davis X. Machina: How does that work when every member of the House is up for re-election every two years?
Adam L Silverman
@James E Powell: The staff will all be a bunch of former Federal prosecutors hired specifically for this. The junior staff will be attorneys working for Democratic organizations. That’s how these folks understand researchers and investigators.
HumboldtBlue
An excerpt from Michael Wolff’s book on the final days of Trump.
Bruuuuce
@Adam L Silverman:
FSVO “weird”=”batshit crazy authoritarian”, yes
@Martin: That would be some nice judo. Still prefer almost any Dem.
SiubhanDuinne
@Davis X. Machina:
Gotta disagree here. Virtually every House member will be running for reëlection — unless, like Val Demings, they’re eyeing a Senate seat. And anyway, why should running for something be a deterrent to their serving on the Select Committee, or anything else? I’m not getting your objection.
Martin
@Bruuuuce: They don’t get out of this without taking Trump off the stage, and possibly some of their fellow House members. Trump isn’t attacking Democrats on his little tour here – he’s attacking Republicans. Their only out here is taking Trump down. Cheney can’t even use her name to get out of this.
It’s in Dem’s interests to help them.
Chief Oshkosh
@Cheryl Rofer:
Nemesis, Greek god of vengeance, with his sidekick, Shiva the Destroyer.
Ajabu
@The Moar You Know:
Damn. They’ve dug down so low that Devin Nunes doesn’t even make it to the top five scumbag list?
Martin
@Bruuuuce: I think Nancy would too. Nancy is going to do whatever does the most damage to the Trump/McCarthy/McConnell GOP.
Davis X. Machina
@marcopolo:
I don’t mind the ones running for re-election — they all are, as you say. 80- 90% of House incumbents win anyway,
But — no one who sees “Senator So-and-So” when they look in the mirror every morning. They can get face-time some other way.
Too many past hearings have had their effectiveness diminished badly by people who don’t remember why there are hearings in the first place.
The five-minute speeches are the worst… The first impeachment hearings were, with a few exceptions, a train wreck.
Elizabelle
@Adam L Silverman: Not Gym Jordan. I get your reasoning but just — no!
Although: Jordan is actually a very loud and disrespectful knife to a gunfight. So there is that.
Imagine the world without Fox News to play to.
dmsilev
@Ajabu: Louie Gohmert as well. Or is he too stupid for this particular contest?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Elizabelle:
It would probably look a lot like this
We might not have had a Trump presidency
Villago Delenda Est
Is there a provision for mercilessly mocking MTG and Boebert at all times for being seditious shits?
Elizabelle
Michael Gerson (former W speechwriter) is following Jennifer Rubin’s path. Welcome.
WaPost: What’s striking about Biden’s crime plan? It actually focuses on reducing crime.
It ends:
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: Which is yet another reason why the Village must be nuked from space. Only way to be sure.
Villago Delenda Est
@Bruuuuce: If Nancy picks a Rethug, it’s going to be Kinzinger or another of the GQpers who voted to impeach TFG the second time around. Just to rub salt in the wound.
Ken
Which of the dozen or so Benghazi investigations was the Select Committee?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Elizabelle:
It also reveals that they don’t have any ideas beyond tax cuts for rich people and racism. Good article
randy khan
Pretty much as I think we all should have expected. A real committee with real power to investigate. It inevitably will be called partisan, but we all should ignore that and let it do its work.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Clarence Thomas makes sense for once. Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
randy khan
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
As a friend who is a law professor pointed out, what he’s trying to do here is undermine the Supremacy Clause, not support people who want pot to be legal.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@randy khan:
Oh, well that’s shitty
Adam L Silverman
@Elizabelle: Pelosi won’t allow him on, but he’s McCarthy’s go to pick for disrupting things.
Adam L Silverman
@Ken: The one run by Trey Gowdy. Where HRC sat for 11 hours of questions.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@sab: they underestimate neoliberal nancy for the same reason the squad & their fanbois do: they think pelosi is demented, same as they think biden is.
Kosh III
@Philbert: I agree. Congress subpoenaed several Cabinet members, they refused and Congress did nothing.
The D’s need to grow a spine.