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Wed Dec 7, 2022, 01:20 PM Dec 2022

Looking forward to Senate Jan. 6 hearings

Tristan Snell @TristanSnell 12h
Move the January 6 committee to the Senate. With Warnock winning, Dems will control all committees — making a Senate J6 committee possible.


Professor Paul Quirk, a U.S. politics expert at the University of British Columbia...

"The House committee can certainly hand all of its files and plans over to the Senate, and the Senate can create its own select committee and proceed with the investigation. The Senate committee can also pick up the departing House staff who want to continue with the investigation.

"The main difficulty is that the Senate committee couldn't demand that Trump, or any other witnesses, show up to testify in response to subpoenas that were issued by the House. It would have to start over with any subpoenas.

"In the end, the handoff of the investigation would set it back a few months, for organizing the new committee, issuing new subpoenas, and other complications, but if important investigating remains to be done, nothing prevents it."
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-can-jan-6-investigation-moved-senate-after-gop-house-win-1761336
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Looking forward to Senate Jan. 6 hearings (Original Post) bigtree Dec 2022 OP
Although... 2naSalit Dec 2022 #1
Was this why Lindsey seemed so Desperate on behalf of HWalker? Nictuku Dec 2022 #2

2naSalit

(86,647 posts)
1. Although...
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 01:43 PM
Dec 2022

The whole thing being made public allows whomever would to investigate for cause which would certainly include the Senate and the DOJ. At least, that's how I see it.

I could be wrong.

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