Lawmakers probing the deadly Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack by supporters of Donald Trump will move on Tuesday toward bringing contempt of Congress charges against his longtime aide Steve Bannon over his refusal to cooperate.
WASHINGTON - A U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of contempt-of-Congress charges against Steve Bannon, a longtime aide to former President Donald Trump.
"It's a shame that Mr. Bannon has put us in this position. But we won't take 'no' for an answer," Representative Bennie Thompson, the panel's chairman, said in his opening remarks.Before leaving office in January, Trump pardoned Bannon of charges he had swindled the Republican president's supporters.
More than 670 people have been charged with taking part in the riot, the worst attack on the U.S. government since the War of 1812. The select committee has issued 19 subpoenas. Four people died on the day of the assault, and one Capitol police officer died the next day of injuries sustained in defense of the seat of Congress. Hundreds of police were injured during the multi-hour onslaught and four officers have since taken their own lives.
The U.S. Supreme Court said in 1821 that Congress has "inherent authority" to arrest and detain recalcitrant witnesses on its own, without the Justice Department's help. But it has not used that authority in nearly a century. "No one in the United States of America has the right to blow off a subpoena by a court or by the U.S. Congress," panel member Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, told reporters after the meeting. Raskin was a professor of constitutional law before he was elected to Congress.
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