ALERT: 11th hour Friday night filing from House Jan 6 Committee in the civil suit filed by Mark Meadows
Committee: "Mr. Meadows had agreed to appear for a deposition on December 8, 2021, he informed the Select Committee on December 7, 2021, of a change of heart"
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Committee court filing: "Certain text communications with Members of Congress suggest that Mr. Meadows
himself “pushed” for Vice President Pence to take unilateral action to reject the counting of
electoral votes on January 6th"
Committee court filing (more): "Mr. Meadows
communicated repeatedly by text with Congressman Scott Perry regarding a plan to replace Department of Justice leadership in the days before January 6th"
Committee filing (more): "Mr. Meadows participated, as a functionary of the Trump campaign, in activities intended to result in actions by state officials and legislatures to change the certified results of the election"
Committee says it's making progress in talks w/ Trump White House figures:
"Committee now has testimony from other White House staff that Mr Meadows & certain congressmen were advised by White House Counsel that efforts to generate false certificates did not comply w/ the law"
Re: Trump ally Jeffrey Clark.. if appointed Atty General
Committee filing: "Evidence shows that Mr. Clark intended, if appointed, to issue a series of letters changing the Department’s position and giving credence to President Trump’s allegations that the election was stolen"
Noting this passage from Committee court filing tonight:
"Mr. Meadows was informed before the January 6th proceeding about the potential for violence
that day"
Committee: "Despite this and other warnings, President Trump urged the attendees at the January
6th rally to march to the Capitol to “take back your country"
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House Jan 6 Select Committee, in court filing says it wants to talk to Mark Meadows about: 1- Activities on behalf of Trump campaign 2- Discussions with Members of Congress
3-Communications w/ Rep Scott Perry (R-PA)
4-Possible communication w/ Michael Flynn & Roger Stone
Mark Meadows - Laura Ingraham texts from Jan 6, 2021
Per House Jan 6 Committee ====>
Donald Trump Jr texts to Mark Meadows.. per Jan 6 committee filing exhibits ===>
Excerpt included by Jan 6 committee.... of interview with Gen. Keith Kellogg about his ask of Ivanka Trump on Jan 6 ====>
More from Keith Kellogg interview excerpt released by House Jan 6 Committee
About Capitol siege: "I don't care if you were God. You couldn't control it."
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More from the House Jan 6 Select Committee excerpt of interview with Keith Kellogg... about Ivanka Trump talking to (intervening w/) her father on Jan 6
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Per another excerpt from Keith Kellogg interview by Rep Liz Cheney
Ivanka: "My father is stubborn"
Kellogg on Donald Trump: "It takes multiple times to convince him to do something"
Sean Hannity text to Mark Meadows.... per House Jan 6 Committee legal filing ===>
Another Hannity text w/ Meadows, per House Jan 6 Committee filing ===>
Per Jan 6 Cmte court filing:
When told "Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all"..
Meadows responds: "I have pushed for this. Not sure it is going to happen"
Per Committee this exchange was between Rep Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows ====>
"We gotta get going"
House Jan 6 Select Committee court filing says this text exchange is between Mark Meadows and Rep Scott Perry (R-PA) ==>
"The Select Committee’s filing today urges the Court to reject Mark Meadows’s baseless claims and put an end to his obstruction of our investigation. Mr. Meadows is hiding behind broad claims of executive privilege..."
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Committee (more): "..even though much of the information we’re seeking couldn’t possibly be covered by privilege and courts have rejected similar claims because the committee’s interest in getting to the truth is so compelling. It’s essential that the American people..."
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Committee (more): "..fully understand Mr. Meadows’s role in events before, on, and after January 6th. His attempt to use the courts to cover up that information must come to an end.”
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NEW: In a blistering new order, federal judge Paula Xinis of Maryland says the Trump Administration is making "a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations" in the court case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Judge Paula Xinis also finds the Trump Admin has "sought refuge behind vague and unsubstantiated assertions of privilege, using them as a shield to obstruct discovery and evade compliance with this court's orders" in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case
The judge's order also throws shade on the Trump Admin's claim Abrego Garcia is out of their control ... in Salvadoran custody
Judge: "Indeed, custody can be joint, and custodial status may be controlled by the Defendants acting in concert with El Salvador"
FLASH: Judge James Boasberg issues opinion on March 15 deportations
"The government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt"
The opinion from chief DC federal judge James Boasberg over the defiance of his order to "turn the planes around" for further review on March 15
Judge James Boasberg (more): "The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it. To permit such officials to freely 'annul the judgments of the courts of the United States' would not just 'destroy the rights acquired under those judgments'.. it would make 'a solemn mockery' of the constitution itself"
Justice Dept asked Maryland judge to delay today's 1pm hearing in the case of mistaken deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Judge Paula Xinis says "no". Parties must show at 1pm
Justice Dept submits court filing, arguing it can't meet judge's deadline for update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the judge's morning deadline
Filing: "Foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines, in part because it involves sensitive country-specific considerations wholly inappropriate for judicial review"
Justice Dept (more) to judge:
"In light of the insufficient amount of time afforded to review the Supreme Court’s order following the dissolution of the adm. stay in this case, Defendants are not in a position where they 'can' share any information requested by the Court"
NEW: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is raising questions right now about Ed Martin, Trump's nominee to be US Attorney in Wash. DC
Durbin shows image of Martin tweet from Jan 6, 2021
Durbin: "Martin was at the Capitol on that dark day, when he posted 'Like Mardi Gras in DC today"
Sen. Durbin (more) about Ed Martin's nomination: "When leaders of the Oath Keepers, a domestic violent extremist organization, were prosecuted for seditious conspiracy for their role in planning the January 6 attack, Mr. Martin responded, quote, 'Oath Keepers are all of us”
Sen. Durbin (more) says he wants to question Trump nominee Ed Martin about Martin's "close relationship" with a January 6 rioter and alleged "antisemitic and racist Nazi sympathizer"
The Justice Department is seeking to drop its criminal case against a Virginia man, who was accused of being the “east coast leader” of the MS-13 gang, and whose arrest was announced by Attorney General Pam Bondi in a nationally televised press conference last month
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Bondi had referred to Henrry Villatoro Santos as “one of the top members and head of the east coast” of the violent MS-13 gang during a March 27 news conference in Manassas, Virginia. Bondi had also described Villatoro Santos as being responsible for “very violent crimes, anything you can associate with MS13. He was the leader over it, all of the violent crimes.”
In a court filing Wednesday in Alexandria, Virginia, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia asked a judge “to dismiss without prejudice the criminal complaint presently pending against the defendant.” When asked for why the case was being a dropped, a spokesperson for Bondi responded with a clip of Bondi saying on March 27 that Villatoro Santos “won’t be in this country much longer”