The Jan. 6 committee deliberated for months on whether to make criminal referrals. The debate appears to be over. (via MaddowBlog)
House Jan. 6 committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., expects the panel to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, he told reporters Tuesday. “We have made decisions on criminal referrals,” Thompson said.from April, the House select committee has long faced a relatively straightforward choice.
Some have argued that the latter would be needlessly provocative and ultimately pointless since criminal referrals are largely symbolic: Federal prosecutors make their own decisions about which cases to pursue, and while Congress is free to make suggestions, those requests have no force of law. Evidently, based on Thompson’s comments this morning, it appears this debate among his colleagues has come to an end: The Jan. 6 committee expects to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.added, the chairman’s comments to reporters this morning comes on the heels of an examination from a subcommittee of four lawyers on the panel — Reps. Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, Zoe Lofgren, and Adam Schiff — who specifically studied the issue and settled on a recommendation.
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