Thread by @KingMakerFT

As the investigation by the J6 Committee becomes more and more heated, its true purpose becomes increasingly apparent. The goal is, and always was to make findings of criminal conduct by Trump and his associates in trying to get state legislatures to decertify the election

… results on account of fraud and election irregularities. The Committee teed up the issue in the courts by 1) issuing subpoenas to Trump lawyers, 2) threatening the lawyers with contempt and criminal referral to the DOJ if they refuse to comply; and 3) when witnesses try to

contest the subpoenas in court on the basis of attorney client privilege and attorneys work product, the Committee seeks a holding that there is no privilege because there were crimes committed. In other words, the J6 committee has deliberately placed itself in the posture of

adjudicating whether what Trump did to try to have state legislatures hold hearings on whether fraud had occurred and if so, decertify the results in certain states, constituted crimes. In crafting this argument, the J6 Committee may have run its investigation off the rails,

intruding into the province of the executive branch , which has the exclusive power under the Constitution to prosecute crimes. That’s not the job of the legislature. To make matters worse, this committee has operated as if it were a grand jury, taking evidence in secret and

bound by no rules nor by any semblance of the rights of those being accused to due process. The Committee is operating very much like a medieval star chamber. I hope that a court will address these issues, as they are inimical to a free and fair society governed by rule of law.

Imagine, if you will, being the target of a politicized operation like this. You would have no right to confront your accusers. You would have no right to see the evidence against you. You would have no right to present any defense. You would have no right to have your guilt or

innocence decided by a jury of your peers. You would have no right to object to or contest the bias and politicized nature of the proceeding and the committee’s members, nor the politicized method by which they were selected. Yet your reputation, your career (as a lawyer, a

businessman or as a politician) could be ruined forever by the committee’s finding that you committed crimes on January 6, including the most serious crimes of sedition and insurrection. That’s where this committee is obviously heading, due process be damned. In medieval England

… star chamber courts that operated very much like the J6 Committee ( they held proceedings in secret, at the whim of the king, and with the judges filling the roles of prosecutor, judge and jury all at once), were forever outlawed by the Magna Carta in 1215. Here’s hoping

that courts and politicians today will wake up to the fact that the monster the House created in the form of the J6 Committee will soon go the way of the ancient star chamber courts.