The January 6 Project considers the legal and policy challenges arising out of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, when thousands of President Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol during the congressional certification of then-President-Elect Biden’s electoral victory. The homepage of the January 6 Project is here, where you will find significant documents, congressional hearings, case information and other materials related to the attack, in addition to articles and podcasts.
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The committee will hear testimony from three Justice Department officials: former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel.
Today on Lawfare No Bull: On June 21, the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 on the U.S. Capitol held its fourth public hearing.
The committee will hear testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger; Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer at the Georgia secretary of state’s office; Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers; and Georgia elections worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss.
Proving Trump’s criminal liability might turn on whether the former president actually knew that his claims of widespread fraud were false or believed there to be a “high probability” they were false.
Today on Lawfare No Bull: On June 16, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol held its third public hearing.
The committee chair and vice chair told the story of Jan. 6 as a day of oaths upheld and broken.
On Thursday, June 16, the Jan. 6 committee held its third day of public hearings. Afterwards, the Lawfare team convened once again in Twitter Spaces for a live recording of the podcast. Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic talked with editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes, executive editor Natalie Orpett, and senior editor Alan Rozenshtein about the substance of the day’s hearing, which focused on President Trump’s efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence into overturning the results of the 2020 election.
Resources to watch, listen, and read about the June 16 Jan. 6 select committee hearing.
The committee will hear testimony from Greg Jacob, general counsel for former Vice President Mike Pence, and former federal judge Michael Luttig.
The attack on the Capitol was enabled by a law enforcement culture that has ignored white supremacy and far-right extremism