It was a good week for (news about) Trump

In the span of just a week, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) revealed the former president pressured him to intervene to unwind the election even after Jan. 6. Texts from Ginni Thomas to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows have also surfaced, showing the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged him to find a way to keep the president in office. And a federal judge found it “more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6.”

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A Monday meeting to weigh contempt of Congress charges against two former Trump aides seemed to be almost a dress rehearsal for the public hearings, which could kick off as early as May.

The committee departed from its practice of having only the chair and vice chair speak.

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The panel has weighed holding their [public] hearings at night — bucking the practice of daytime hearings in the hopes of captivating those who may have a better opportunity to watch from home in the evening.

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[Committee chair Bennie] Thompson hinted it’s not just [Ginni] Thomas’s status as the spouse of a Supreme Court justice that is problematic, but the sheer amount of work left for the committee and whether her actions justify additional scrutiny.

“We’re continuing to talk about [that] as a committee, and hopefully within the not-too-distant future, we’ll decide one way or the other,” Thompson told reporters Wednesday.

  The Hill

Hopefully indeed.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has said the committee should call Thomas and also expressed an openness to having [Congressman] Brooks speak with the committee’s investigators.

“The significant thing about Mo Brooks’s statement was that he told us that former President Trump continues to try to rescind the election and install himself as president. So you know, I have never felt that the insurrectionists and coup plotters have accepted the Biden presidency, and it’s an important warning to us that this is a continuing emergency,” Raskin said.

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“Well, you know, Mo Brooks was on one side until he got dis-endorsed, so he could just be a rejected endorsed person, and why should we get drawn into the Mo Brooks-Donald Trump disagreement?” Thompson asked.

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“I’m not sure yet how to evaluate what Mr. Brooks has said. But I think that based on the former president’s efforts to obstruct the joint session of Congress, based on his actions in Georgia, among other places, I think there is ample cause for the Justice Department to investigate,” [Rep. Adam Schiff] told reporters this week.

True, but the DOJ has its hands quite full right now. They probably wouldn't get to Brooks until after the mid-terms, and if (when?) the GOP retakes control of the House, they'll be doing everything they can to turn the news into pro-January 6th disinformation. So maybe the committee should take every opportunity it has now to inform the citizenry of the corruption and the extent of the coup attempt.

A federal judge ruled that there was a reasonable likelihood that Trump and his legal adviser John Eastman committed at least two felonies, saying there was enough evidence to undermine their claims of attorney-client privilege in the face of a select committee subpoena.

“The illegality of the plan was obvious,” Judge David Carter wrote in his decision.

“Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history,” he added later. “Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower — it was a coup in search of a legal theory.

Thompson called it a “powerful ruling.”

And also an issue for the DOJ, but the committee seems likely to bring that up in its hearings.

Nearly every member of the committee used their time Monday night to reference the decision, with the panel said in an official statement calling it a warning sign and that “a failure to pursue accountability could set the stage for a repeat of Jan. 6.”

True, but I think more likely the GOP is putting in place voting suppressive legislation and candidates in positions to control vote counting so there won't be a need for a repeat of January 6.

Schiff went further, noting that the responsibility of getting to the bottom of the attack cannot just rest with the committee.

“I think when you have a federal judge state that the former president of the United States likely engaged in crime or fraud, and that he believes there’s sufficient evidence to justify that conclusion, it’s something that the Justice Department needs to pay very strong attention to,” he said.

Yes, and good luck with that.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.