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The 1/6 committee did its job, and it did it well:

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol unanimously agreed to refer criminal charges against former president Donald Trump to the Justice Department on Monday, concluding an 18-month examination of the insurrection that shook the country’s free and fair election system.

The committee recommended that prosecutors pursue four charges against Trump: obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, inciting or assisting an insurrection, and conspiracy to make a false statement.

The Justice Department already has an active investigation of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 vote and his alleged mishandling of government documents. While criminal referrals from the committee hold no legal weight, they set a notable precedent: Congress has never before referred a sitting or former president for prosecution.

Whether or not Trump is ultimately charged, the action appeared intended to add an exclamation point to the committee’s efforts to prove that he should be disqualified from holding future office.

The committee’s vice chairwoman, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), pointed in her opening statement Monday to Trump’s decision to watch the riot on television rather than taking action to stop it.

“No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any position of authority in our nation again,” Cheney said of Trump, who announced last month that he is again seeking the presidency. “He is unfit for any office.”

What Garland will do I have no idea, but the evidence couldn’t be much more damning.

Remember the professional centrists who asserted that it would have been much better for Pelosi to let pro-1/6 Republicans onto the committee? Boy, that was dumb.

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