In the nearly two and a half centuries of American congressional history, there seldom has been a more sombre moment than when the clerk of the committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill called the roll
One by one, they uttered a single grave syllable, nine men and women whose “aye” set in motion a resounding repudiation of an American president, a stunning, unprecedented referral of four serious accusations to the Justice Department, and the epochal attachment of formal accusations of federal crimes to the contemporary reputation and historical legacy of the central figure in the politics of the United States for the past seven years.
“The central cause of Jan. 6th was one man, the former President Donald Trump, whom many others followed,” said the report. “None of the events of Jan. 6th would have happened without him.
Much of the proceedings of this momentous day were foreshadowed over the weekend, when it became clear that the seven Democrats and two Republicans on the panel had concluded that the 45th president should be prosecuted for the crimes of insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States government – all part of what Republican Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming described as “the first time one president refused his constitutional duty to transfer...
The final additional element has both legal and political significance. The committee referred to the House Ethics Committee the refusal of four Republican House members – Kevin McCarthy of California, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona – for their failure to comply with its subpoenas.
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