New Jan. 6 Committee hearing suddenly scheduled for 1PM tomorrow with "recently obtained evidence"

[bigtree]

Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC 2m
New House January 6 Committee hearing suddenly scheduled for tomorrow at 1 PM with “recently obtained evidence."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/us/politics/jan-6-panel-abruptly-sets-tuesday-hearing-on-recently-obtained-evidence.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Element of SURPRISE! TV? TV? TV?

[Ohio Joe]

2. Looking forward to more details

[Ocelot II]

3. I wonder why this can't wait? Could be juicy....

[Baitball Blogger]

10. God, I hope they can give us something that will put a stop to all the bullshit

rulings coming out of this compromised Supreme Court.

[Ocelot II]

13. The two have nothing to do with each other.

If the court still has opinions left to release, they'll do it on their normal schedule, which is published, regardless of and completely unrelated to what the 1/6 committee does. The 1/6 committee will hold its hearings as they see fit, regardless of what the court does, which they would know about because the court's schedule is published. Not everything is a conspiracy. No opinions are scheduled to be released tomorrow; the last ones for the term will be out on Wednesday. https://www.scotusblog.com/events/

[Baitball Blogger]

15. See, I disagree with you there. The appointment of those last three Federalist

judges were part of a very concerted effort to takeover the Court. Their rulings are helping the right legitimize autocratic rule, because nothing will stand in their way to stop them. And Trump was a key factor in all of this. As he went over the line with sedition, the Court has also crossed the line.

Don't look forward, look back since that's where you'll find the smoking gun. They have been working on this for years. Decades.

[Ocelot II]

17. We know the RW has been trying to do this for decades

but that doesn't mean it's a conspiracy, which is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful, since it was all done right in the open; an ideological movement isn't a conspiracy if everybody knows what's going on and who's doing it. Anyhow, what I'm saying wrt the OP is that timing the release of opinions to take attention away from court decisions isn't a conspiracy. The Supreme Court doesn't even need conspiracies, because once they had a RW majority they didn't need any help from outside. Even Ginni Thomas wasn't needed to do that, since Clarence has always been a nutjob, with or without her. Where she's a problem for the court relates to her involvement with certain perpetrators of the 1/6 insurrection and hubby's failure to recuse himself re: the production of records that might include her emails. But even that isn't a conspiracy; it's just unethical and corrupt behavior. The reason events sometimes look like they are coordinated is just because there are so many bad actors in the government, and they do bad things. But the bad actors don't need to coordinate their bad acts; they just do them.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. I guess we disagree in the way we're interpreting the evidence.

Not everyone has been following the facts as we have. It sounds like it's all been in the open, but to many, most, they are just seeing the facts for the first time. If we take a lackadaisical attitude to it, we might as well just cancel the elections and let them have the country.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Kick and rec all Jan. 6 threads.

[Kingofalldems]

5. Hoping for an outside chance it has to do with Jan. 5

And the attempted bombing.

[Itchinjim]

7. Holy shit!

[Novara]

8. Wow, I'm dying to know what they've got!

The hearings so far have been so well done. I assume it takes time and coordination and skill to present these at the excellent level they've been so far. To launch a surprise hearing on us means one of two things: either it's to make up for the one that was missed (I'm thinking not likely) or they have something so juicy they need to present it.

They are in recess right now, folks. Supposedly they don't come back until July 11 and 12 (Senate and House).
Congressional calendar.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Sinking ship is leaking

Rats don't want to go down with it.

[Novara]

11. More speculation:

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[bigtree]

22. more

Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade 53m
Scheduling a new hearing on such short notice? Seems like the committee must have something explosive and wants to avoid delay to minimize leaks or to prevent witness from changing his mind.

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[thesquanderer]

23. re:"prevent witness from changing his mind"

That wouldn't necessitate an immediate public hearing. But who was it recently who said they would testify, but only if the testimony was public?

[FelineOverlord]

12. Ginni Thomas?

😛

[gratuitous]

14. The Committee has not made a habit of overpromising

When they have the goods, they have the goods. Member after member has laid out what the testimony and the evidence they were about to introduce in each hearing, and they've done just as they said. This short-notice hearing will surely have interesting and provocative disclosures.

[kentuck]

16. Did they discover a gun with smoke coming out of the barrel?

This is an interesting development. The last I had heard was that the next meeting was going to be the middle of July?

I'm thinking it might be about Clarence and Ginni?

Or they may want to accommodate the DOJ in some manner?

[Captain Zero]

18. yes, I think its to accommodate the DOJ some way

we will see

[kentuck]

20. That would make sense to me.

They have probably requested that the Committee finish up their Hearings as soon as possible because they have a whole shitload of subpoenas going out and they need to hear from some people immediately? Plus, I would expect they have come across some very strong evidence or some big name has agreed to come in and testify?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. The committee has not identified the witness for the hearing, as it did for previous hearings.

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[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Good