The Judiciary Subcommittee on the Investigation of Laws that were violated by the President and his aides

The task of determining whether anyone broke the law is never mentioned in the resolution that led to the creation of the committee in June 2021. The main purpose of the body is to come up with a detailed account of what happened, identify the causes of the violence, and recommend ways to prevent it from happening again.

The committee is a front loader for the Justice Department, coming up with theories for laws that may have been broken by Mr. Trump’s team, and doing a good job of explaining them in nationally televised hearings.

The committee staff, many of which are former prosecutors, uses a strategy of highlighting a range of potential crimes or lanes for investigators to pursue during public hearings.

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There were hearings about whether or not Mr. Trump and his aides committed crimes against the American people. At another, the question of whether Mr. Trump or his aides committed witness tampering was raised.

The purpose of this committee is to make sure that we are telling the truth, that government officials can make changes to the system, that the American people make better decisions about who they choose, and also encourage D.O.J. to do their job.

When we started to see intentional conduct, specific steps that appear to be designed to disrupt the joint session of Congress, that’s where it starts to sound criminal. The special counsel has intent. The more evidence that the president was planning to prevent the transfer of power without actually doing so, the more it became a criminal act.

The Department of Justice is the same culture as The Hill. A grand jury is not a public process. Every step you take is reported and it does not help the investigation. I mean, there were days when we would interview a witness and literally 30 minutes later, there’s Luke Broadwater on TV saying the select committee interviewed the witness. It’s difficult because there were times when people would say “Well, my client would like to help the committee, but she’s worried that she’ll be outed as a turncoat.” It was more difficult for us to earn the trust and confidence of people because of the public nature of what we did.

The committee hired James Goldston, who’s the former president of ABC [News], and he brought in a bunch of producers. The lawyers and producers collaborated. That was a combination of skills that I don’t know what Congress has seen before.