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House Votes to Find Two Trump Aides in Contempt in Jan. 6 Inquiry
WASHINGTON — The Home on Wednesday voted to suggest legal contempt of Congress prices towards Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino Jr., two shut allies of former President Donald J. Trump, after the pair defied subpoenas from the particular committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.
The principally party-line vote of 220 to 203 referred contempt prices to the Justice Division, calling for prosecutions of Mr. Navarro, a former prime White Home adviser, and Mr. Scavino Jr., a former deputy chief of employees. It got here as congressional investigators have grown more and more pissed off with a few of Mr. Trump’s staunchest supporters who’ve refused to fulfill with the panel or flip over a single web page of proof to the committee because it digs into the worst assault on the Capitol for the reason that Battle of 1812.
“We’ve got two people who find themselves flagrantly, openly defying the authority of the Home of Representatives of the US,” stated Consultant Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the committee. He stated the boys had “nothing however excuses for his or her noncompliance — excuses you wouldn’t settle for from a teenage youngster.”
Solely two Republicans, Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, each members of the investigative committee, voted for the fees. The remainder of their celebration refused to assist the transfer.
Dozens of Republicans lined up on the ground of the Home on Wednesday to demand a change of matter, attempting to power a vote on immigration laws in keeping with their efforts to make use of issues on the border as a political weapon towards Democrats forward of midterm congressional elections.
After that failed, Consultant Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California and the minority chief, attacked the investigation in a ground speech as a “political present trial” and accused the panel of bullying the boys and trampling on their civil rights.
“Let me be clear: The riot on Jan. 6 was mistaken. However make no mistake: the Democrats’ response can be mistaken,” Mr. McCarthy stated, including, “Democrats are utilizing the facility of the federal authorities to jail their political opponents.”
Mr. Raskin shot again that Republicans had been utilizing “circus antics” to attempt to decelerate the vote with a “conga line” of lawmakers queued up on the ground whereas they skipped out on their committee assignments.
He accused the Republicans of “slavishly” following Mr. Trump like “sycophants,” as an alternative of becoming a member of efforts to research the lethal assault on the Capitol that left greater than 150 law enforcement officials injured.
A contempt of Congress cost carries a penalty of as much as a 12 months in jail and a most effective of $100,000. The Home vote steered the matter to the Justice Division, which now should determine whether or not to cost the 2 males.
Consultant Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana, stated the stakes of potential jail time had been too excessive, and famous the vote would imply that 4 Trump White Home aides would face legal referrals from the committee.
“Mr. Scavino has two boys. He’s dad,” Mr. Banks stated.
Ms. Cheney referred to as the vote “unhappy” and “tragic,” however stated the committee was left with no different alternative after some in her personal celebration had deserted the reality for fealty to Mr. Trump.
“So many in my very own celebration are refusing to deal with the constitutional disaster and the problem we face,” she stated.
The Jan. 6 committee laid out its arguments towards Mr. Navarro and Mr. Scavino in a 34-page report that detailed how intently they had been concerned in efforts to maintain Mr. Trump in energy even after he misplaced decisively on the polls.
Mr. Navarro and Mr. Scavino are amongst a handful of Mr. Trump’s closest allies who’ve refused to take a seat for interviews or flip over paperwork, whilst greater than 800 witnesses — together with different prime White Home officers — have complied with the committee’s requests.
Up to now week, the panel has interviewed each Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest daughter, and her husband Jared Kushner, each of whom had been high-ranking White Home advisers to Mr. Trump. Every sat for prolonged interviews with the committee. Neither asserted government privilege to keep away from answering the committee’s questions.
Consultant Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, contrasted their strategy to the hard-line stance adopted by Mr. Scavino and Mr. Navarro.
“The president’s personal daughter complied with the desires of the committee,” Mr. Thompson stated. “If his daughter complied with the desires of the committee, everybody else ought to.”
The committee stated Mr. Navarro had labored with Stephen Ok. Bannon, one other Trump ally, to hold out a plan to delay Congress’s certification of the election on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the end to attempt to change the election’s consequence. Mr. Navarro has beforehand described this plan because the “Inexperienced Bay Sweep” and has stated greater than 100 members of Congress had signed on to it.
Mr. Navarro additionally wrote a report alleging a stolen election, which was broadly shared with others working to overturn the election. Mr. Navarro claimed that Mr. Trump “himself had distributed Quantity 1 of the report to each member of the Home and Senate” earlier than Jan. 6.
In his newest assertion, Mr. Navarro denied he had something to do with the violence, however continued to insist the 2020 election was rigged, whereas selling his e book, “In Trump Time.”
“A very bipartisan committee would examine why Nancy Pelosi, the Capitol Hill Police, and the Pentagon left the perimeter of the Capitol constructing inadequately guarded and whether or not FBI informants performed any vital position in instigating violence and chaos that was, as I famous in ‘In Trump Time,’ the final consequence Donald Trump and I wished on Jan. 6,” he stated. “We would have liked peace and calm that day for the authorized Inexperienced Bay Sweep to run and thereby get an correct accounting of all authorized votes.”
Contempt prices. The Home voted to suggest legal contempt of Congress prices towards Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino Jr., two shut allies of former President Donald J. Trump, after the pair defied subpoenas from the particular committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault.Capitol Riot’s Aftermath: Key Developments
As for Mr. Scavino, the committee stated he had labored with Mr. Trump to unfold false data through social media relating to election fraud and had recruited a crowd to Washington on Jan. 6.
The committee stated it had “purpose to imagine” Mr. Scavino, whose subpoena was served at Mar-a-Lago, the previous president’s property in Palm Seaside, Fla., was with Mr. Trump on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 in 2021 when plans had been mentioned to “problem, disrupt, or impede the official congressional proceedings.” He additionally was with Mr. Trump whereas individuals trapped contained in the Capitol had been urgently calling on the president to halt the violence.
The committee additionally stated it “has purpose to imagine that Mr. Scavino could have had advance warning in regards to the potential for violence on Jan. 6,” as a result of he was identified to watch pro-Trump web sites the place plans to commit violence had been mentioned.
The committee has sought Mr. Scavino’s testimony since September, when it issued him a subpoena. The panel stated it delayed Mr. Scavino’s deposition six instances to attempt to accommodate him.
Mr. Scavino sued Verizon in January — at first, anonymously — searching for to cease the corporate from turning over his cellphone information to the committee.
His attorneys have argued that President Biden — who waived government privilege for each males — doesn’t have the authority to take action over the testimony of a former president’s senior aides.
Up to now, Mr. Bannon is the one goal of the committee who has been indicted on contempt of Congress prices for refusing to adjust to a subpoena.
Mr. Bannon, whose trial is tentatively set for July, was dealt a authorized blow on Wednesday when a choose dominated he couldn’t defend himself by claiming he was merely following the recommendation of his attorneys when he declined to reply to the committee’s subpoena.
In December, the Home beneficial that Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s ultimate White Home chief of employees, face legal contempt of Congress prices for his refusal to take a seat for an interview with the committee. The Justice Division has not but determined whether or not to pursue legal prices towards Mr. Meadows, who turned over hundreds of paperwork to the committee earlier than he stopped cooperating.
The committee additionally initially sought a contempt cost towards Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Division lawyer who participated in Mr. Trump’s frenzied makes an attempt to overturn the election. However earlier than it forwarded a contempt advice to the complete Home, Mr. Clark’s lawyer let the panel know he would sit for one more interview by which he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Modification proper towards self-incrimination. That successfully ended the potential contempt cost towards him.
Alan Feuer contributed reporting.
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Mike Kennedy advances past crowded GOP primary to secure nomination for open Utah House seat
Mike Kennedy on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District to replace outgoing Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, becoming the immediate favorite to win the seat in November.
Kennedy beat fellow Republicans JR Bird, John Dougall, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay in a packed primary pool for the district. Curtis is vacating his seat to run for U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney.
Kennedy, a state senator, had won the party’s nomination for the seat in April but faced challenges from other candidates who gathered signatures to be on the ballot. Peay had won the endorsement of Romney, who is also Peay’s wife’s uncle. Kennedy had won the endorsement of Sen. Mike Lee, who said he was needed to “fight against the Uniparty and help get this country back on track.”
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From left, JR Bird, John Dougall, Mike Kennedy, Case Lawrence and Stewart Peay, candidates in the Republican primary for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, take part in a debate at the Eccles Broadcast Center in Salt Lake City on June 12, 2024. (Spenser Heaps/Deseret News via AP/Pool)
Bird, a mayor, emphasized his experience of running a small town as well as the importance of the energy sector and agriculture, according to the Deseret News.
Dougall, the state auditor, had run as an anti-MAGA candidate and had slammed some GOP legislation, including what he saw as an overly aggressive bill that tasks him with enforcing a ban on transgender-identifying individuals using restrooms that are inconsistent with their sex.
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He has also been deeply critical of former President Trump. On Tuesday on X, he also questioned the “cavalier manner” of any official who swears to uphold the Constitution “then endorses Trump following January 6th.” He has advertised himself as “mainstream, not MAGA.”
At a debate this month, candidates split on the question of military funding to Ukraine as well as whether the federal government should explicitly ban abortion. Peay, Dougall and Case Lawrence – a trampoline park entrepreneur – had called on Congress to keep sending weapons to Ukraine to help it fend off the ongoing Russian invasion.
Bird and Kennedy disagreed, arguing that it was not beneficial to the U.S. to keep funding the Ukrainians, with the two calling for stronger sanctions and the seizure of Russian assets.
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Sen. Mitt Romney (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Kennedy will go on to face Democrat Glenn Wright in the November election, but the Republican is favored to win comfortably in a district that has voted Republican since 1997.
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Elsewhere in the state, Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, a major GOP Trump critic, held off a primary challenge from Phil Lyman, another 2020 election denier who easily won the state party convention.
The Associated Press and Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
California news publishers and Big Tech companies appear to be inching toward compromise on a controversial bill that would require Google and huge social media platforms to pay news outlets for the articles they distribute.
After stalling last year, Assembly Bill 886 cleared a critical hurdle Tuesday when it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee. Several lawmakers described the legislation as a work in progress aimed at solving a critical problem: The news business is shrinking as technology changes the way people consume information.
“I do believe the marketplace is the best mechanism to regulate industry,” Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Orange), the committee chairman, said during a hearing on the bill.
However, he said, the demise of journalism harms democracy: “Thus, we have an obligation to find a way to support reasonable, credible journalism.”
The legislation, known as the “California Journalism Preservation Act,” would require digital platforms to pay news outlets a fee when they sell advertising alongside news content. It calls for creating a fund that the tech firms pay into, with the money being distributed to news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ. Publishers would have to use 70% of the money they receive to pay journalists in California.
Umberg noted that the bill does not specify an amount for the fund. He said it would be “a very elegant solution” for the parties involved to agree on what amount that should be.
Sen. Henry Stern (D-Calabasas) described talks as being “closer and closer to the place where we could actually land some kind of deal.”
In Canada, Google is paying $74 million annually into a fund for the news industry under a law similar to the one proposed in California.
Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s vice president of global news partnerships, testified against the California proposal during a hearing in which news executives from across the state lined up to express support for the bill, while tech industry lobbyists lined up in opposition. The bill is sponsored by the California News Publishers Assn., of which the Los Angeles Times is a member.
“The bill would … break the fundamental and foundational principles of the open internet, forcing platforms to pay publishers for sending valuable free traffic to them,” Zaidi said.
“It puts the full burden of support on one or two companies, while shielding many other large platforms who also link to news from California publishers.”
He said Google had shared a proposal for a different way to support journalism “through targeted programs” that would be funded by more companies than just the very largest platforms. The current version of the bill would apply only to Google and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.
“We hope this can serve as a basis for a workable path forward together,” Zaidi said. “We remain committed to being here and constructively working towards an outcome.”
The bill’s author, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), said she is “aggressively trying to engage” with companies that oppose the bill in the hopes that the sparring sides can reach an agreement that will allow the news industry to thrive.
“At the end of the day, I want the best solution to the problem,” Wicks said.
She closed the hearing by talking about the role journalism has played in exposing problems that lawmakers wind up addressing in the Capitol, such as crafting new laws to extend the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits after The Times’ investigation revealed a pattern of allegations against former USC gynecologist George Tyndall.
The bill now advances to the Senate Appropriations Committee. It will go to Gov. Gavin Newsom if it clears both houses of the Legislature by Aug. 31.
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Judge Juan Merchan has partially lifted the gag order he imposed against former President Trump – weeks after the jury found him guilty on all counts.
Trump and his legal team have been fighting the gag order since it was imposed upon him at the start of the trial, but had ramped up their efforts when it concluded last month. The former president and presumptive Republican nominee’s legal team had argued the gag order should be lifted before the June 27 presidential debate.
Merchan’s gag order barred Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses with regard to their potential participation or about counsel in the case – other than Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – or about court staff, DA staff or family members of staff.
Merchan on Tuesday partially lifted the gag order because the trial has concluded.
Trump is now able to speak about protected witnesses and jurors.
Trump is still blocked from commenting about individual prosecutors, court staff and their family members. That portion of the gag order will remain in effect until Trump’s sentencing on July 11.
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