Never was gonna be….
This WILL have to come Fromm Congress….
And one IS needed….
But the House does have some support for the overview…..
House Speaker Pelosi will make the call it appears ….
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ruling out a presidential commission to study the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, telling House Democrats on Tuesday that having President Joe Biden appoint a panel is unworkable even after the Senate blocked an independent probe last week.
Pelosi laid out possible next steps after Friday’s Senate vote, in which Senate Republicans blocked legislation to create an independent, bipartisan panel to investigate the siege by former President Donald Trump’s supporters. She proposed four options for an investigation of the attack, according to a person on the private Democratic caucus call who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations.
The first option, Pelosi said, is to give the Senate another chance to vote on the commission. Six Republicans voted with Democrats to move forward with the bill, and a seventh missed the vote but said he would have backed it. That means Democrats would only need support from three additional Republicans to reach the 60 votes needed for passage. The commission would be modeled after a highly respected panel that investigated the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The other options involve the House investigating the attack, meaning the probes would be inherently partisan. Pelosi suggested that she could appoint a new select committee to investigate the siege or give the responsibility to a single committee, like the House Homeland Security panel, which wrote the original bipartisan bill to create the commission. Alternately, Pelosi said committees could simply push ahead with their own investigations that are already underway.
But the speaker said she believed a commission appointed by Biden — an idea pitched by some in her caucus after Friday’s Senate vote — was “not a workable idea in this circumstance” because Congress would still need to approve money and subpoena authority for the panel….
Mealy-mouthed legal rationalization that April 6 was not a terrorist incident.
What the Capitol Riot Prosecutions Tell Us
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
(who prosecuted the 1995 World Trade Center bombers)
National Review [NR Plus]
June 12, 2021 6:30 AM
The office of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia has a “Sedition Task Force” focused on the January 6 riot . . . but it doesn’t have a sedition case.
Federal prosecutors haven’t charged any terrorism offenses, but, as a rationale for denying one defendant bail, they are trying to convince a skeptical federal judge that by damaging a doorway in forcing her way into the Capitol — a crime often treated as a misdemeanor, and for which the maximum sentence is just ten years — she committed a “crime of terrorism.”
Let’s be real. With due respect to …
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/what-the-capitol-riot-prosecutions-tell-us
Although some of the individual points seem plausible, so many are rather weakly stitched together that the argument as a whole seems to me like special pleading.
On the other hand, Jack can tell us better than I how solid a case Andrew McCarthy is making. Prosecutors do have to prove each and every point in the indictment or presentment; all a defense lawyer need do is cast reasonable doubt upon one of them.