January 6 Select Committee

[AndyinPA]

[Suranis]

Will he be able to last that long without a bathroom nose break?

[Gregg]

Under the advice of

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council

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I respectfully decline to um...

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answer that ques

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ah, question because

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it might tend to

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violate my rights

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under the fifth

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amendment...

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oh, oh, oh, that's the drip, hang on this is the good part

and so I ain't gonna answer...amen....sniff

[Kendra]

Court has 11am hearing to update status of suit filed by RNC against House Jan 6 Cmte

RNC: "Committee dominated by political party in power has leveraged its subpoena authority to compel disclosure of minority party’s 1st Amendment protected internal party deliberative material

[Suranis]

Since when does the first Amendment protect internal documents? IANAL, but all the first Amendment says is that the Goverment cant arrest you for saying stuff. It has nothing to do with protecting conspirators, and it sure as hell does not stop people finding out you lied your ass off in your first amendment protected speech.

[raison de arizona]

Since when does the first Amendment protect internal documents? IANAL, but all the first Amendment says is that the Goverment cant arrest you for saying stuff. It has nothing to do with protecting conspirators, and it sure as hell does not stop people finding out you lied your ass off in your first amendment protected speech.

Off Topic

No one understands the first amendment. Here's my local Nextdoorian this morning.

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Yes dear, no one is allowed to tell you your racist rants are bullshit because FIRST AMENDMENT and that's retaliation!

Seriously. This is an argument. Because her 1st amendment rights give her the right to make racist rants, but no one else has a 1st amendment right to say, hey, that's a stupid racist rant. Because that would infringe on her 1st amendment right to make racist rants.

[Volkonski]

[Kendra]

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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[jcolvin2]

Since when does the first Amendment protect internal documents? IANAL, but all the first Amendment says is that the Goverment cant arrest you for saying stuff. It has nothing to do with protecting conspirators, and it sure as hell does not stop people finding out you lied your ass off in your first amendment protected speech.

The First Amendment has a “Freedom of Association” component, which provides some protection against government attempts to obtain internal communications of voluntary associations such as political parties and labor unions. IIRC, the most famous Supreme Court case on the issue, NAACP v. Alabama, protected the membership information of the NAACP from being turned over to a hostile state government.

[Kendra]

New: Sources say former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham told the Jan. 6 committee to talk to Trump’s onetime lead US Secret Service agent Anthony Ornato — who gave Meadows the intel around Jan. 4 that there could be violence at the Capitol


Jan. 6 committee appears to have been examining Ornato, the former lead USSS agent on Trump’s detail. One source says Trump then made him deputy White House chief of staff for operations in part because of his loyal

ty.

[Kendra]

Motherlode of Meadows texts obtained by CNN includes this one fomr Marjorie Taylor Greene on Jan. 17 in which she says multiple colleagues advocated for Trump to declare martial law.

https://cnn.com/2022/04/25/pol

[raison de arizona]

Just spoke with someone close to House conservatives, who has seen some of the group chats from late 2020 and early 2021. Cringed at the MTG texts. Said the group chats were, and remain, "stupid" and "everybody texted too much" in them. "If they ever get out, we have a problem."

[Gregg]

“If it’s what you say, I love it, especially later in the summer.”

[AndyinPA]

Lots of popcorn.

[much ado]

So what kind of problem would they have? That we would learn what we already know? That it would convince their followers to become disloyal? Would it really have any effect at all on the political landscape?

Just wondering...

[humblescribe]

Motherlode of Meadows texts obtained by CNN includes this one fomr Marjorie Taylor Greene on Jan. 17 in which she says multiple colleagues advocated for Trump to declare martial law.

https://cnn.com/2022/04/25/pol

Tell me Marge, just who is Marshall law? Did the former Supreme Court Justice have a statute named after him?

[AndyinPA]

[raison de arizona]

Rep. Zoe Lofgren said that the 1/6 Committee is getting information from Republican staffers who are ratting out their bosses..

[Frater I*I]

Tell me Marge, just who is Marshall law? Did the former Supreme Court Justice have a statute named after him?

The Georgia public education system strakes again....

[Kendra]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics ... index.html

Why this former Trump official comes out looking absolutely terrible in the Mark Meadows texts

[busterbunker]

You're saying you've never heard of Marshall Law? And some of you are lawyers?

[Phoenix520]

I’d wager MTG Has never heard of the Marshall Islands. Or the Martial Islands.

[Lani]

I’d wager MTG Has never heard of the Marshall Islands. Or the Martial Islands.

Or Marsha's law!

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Or Marcialaw (my former email address).

[Kendra]

New -
@BennieGThompson
says the Jan. 6 select committee will issue “another invitation” to
@GOPLeader
to testify before the panel. Then the select cmte will decide whether to subpoena McCarthy & other Republicans