The 1/6 committee may well recommend reform making it even clearer that obstructing the congressional count of electors is a federal crime with stiff penalties.
We should get behind this right now. Here's some new reporting on it:
Dark and unsettling: The 1/6 committee is homing in on whether Trump and his co-conspirators fully understood the attack as an instrumental weapon to help carry out his procedural coup. Seeking Jim Jordan's testimony is key to this. I laid this out here: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Jim Jordan may be able to shed light on:
*Trump's conduct while the mob attack unfolded -- did Trump indicate he wanted it to continue?
*How Trump and his co-conspirators sought to use fake fraud claims as a deliberate pretext for the procedural coup:
@RonWyden Manchin cannot be moved by the immiseration of his own constituents. But he does want to be seen as standing for a good economy in a general sense.
Goldman's finding provides a weapon here.
“Instead of a Biden boom, we could have a Manchin slowdown."
The 1/6 committee's report on Mark Meadows is extraordinary -- it's a detailed blueprint of a coup. Notably, it shows Meadows can testify to Trump's reaction to the violence as it unfolded. This is a huge element of what he's covering up. My latest: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Key: The 1/6 committee discloses that it has "many messages" Meadows received urging him to get Trump to call off the rioters.
So Meadows is a witness to Trump's reaction to the violence in real time.
Here's what Meadows *does not* want to testify to: