• Judge rejects effort by Donald Trump to toss Jan. 6 lawsuits

    Judge rejects effort by Donald Trump to toss Jan. 6 lawsuits

    Feb 19, 2022 12:33 AM EST

    ... the rally, a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol." Thompson later dropped out of the lawsuit when he was named to lead the Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. The NAACP continued in his stead. The lawsuits cite a federal civil rights law that was enacted to counter ...

  • Sen. Mitch McConnell rebukes RNC, calls Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'

    Sen. Mitch McConnell rebukes RNC, calls Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'

    Feb 08, 2022 11:55 PM EST

    ... the censure resolution was referring to the violent attack on the Capitol and said it had to do with other actions taken by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. But the resolution drew no such distinction. Cheney said Monday that she had been receiving a "tremendous amount ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Republicans censuring Cheney, Kinzinger

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Republicans censuring Cheney, Kinzinger

    Feb 07, 2022 11:20 PM EST

    ... latest political news, including the repercussions after the Republican National Committee censured Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their work on the select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, and how the committee's probe is progressing. ... Judy Woodruff: As the Republican Party prepares for ...

  • GOP censures Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participation in Jan. 6 investigation

    GOP censures Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participation in Jan. 6 investigation

    Feb 04, 2022 07:50 PM EST

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Party officials on Friday voted to punish GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their work on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and advanced a rule change that would prohibit candidates from participating in debates organized by the Commission on Presidential ...

  • News Wrap: Jan. 6 panel seeks voluntary testimony from Ivanka Trump

    News Wrap: Jan. 6 panel seeks voluntary testimony from Ivanka Trump

    Jan 20, 2022 11:55 PM EST

    In our news wrap Thursday, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot asked to interview Ivanka Trump. New unemployment claims jumped up by 55,000 last week, to 286,000 — the most since October. Police in Britain arrested two people in connection with the Texas synagogue standoff Saturday ...

  • Founder of Oath Keepers, 10 other members charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol insurrection

    Founder of Oath Keepers, 10 other members charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol insurrection

    Jan 13, 2022 07:04 PM EST

    ... of helping put into motion the violence. Jonathan Moseley, an attorney who said he represented Rhodes, said Rhodes was supposed to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection in a deposition but it got called off. “He has been subject to a lot of suspicion to why ...

  • ‘Slow-motion insurrection’: Democracy experts alarmed over GOP takeover of election machinery

    ‘Slow-motion insurrection’: Democracy experts alarmed over GOP takeover of election machinery

    Dec 29, 2021 09:40 PM EST

    ... alarms are struggling to be heard by their own party. GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming or Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, members of a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, are often dismissed as party apostates. Others have cast the election denialism as little more than a distraction. But ...

  • What the Jan. 6 panel hopes to learn from Meadows, and how executive privilege affects it

    What the Jan. 6 panel hopes to learn from Meadows, and how executive privilege affects it

    Dec 14, 2021 11:45 PM EST

    The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday took up a contempt of Congress charge against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. This comes after Meadows defied a subpoena from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Lisa Desjardins begins this report, and Judy ...

  • WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds news briefing

    WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds news briefing

    Dec 14, 2021 05:58 PM EST

    ... Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows as the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was underway. The texts were released this week by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and read aloud at a committee hearing by Rep. Liz Cheney. Psaki called the texts "disappointing" but "not surprising ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Jan. 6 investigation, abortion

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Jan. 6 investigation, abortion

    Dec 13, 2021 11:20 PM EST

    ... the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including the latest subpoenas and revelations from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, and recent judicial action on reproductive rights. ... Judy Woodruff: The committee in the House of Representatives investigating January 6 ...