“For weeks, Rep. Liz Cheney has hinted that the House select committee examining January 6 might urge the Justice Department to consider prosecuting Donald Trump,” Sargent explains. “The grounds for this criminal referral might be that Trump obstructed the ‘official proceeding’ in which Congress counts presidential electors. Some comments from Cheney herself — and clarification I’ve now obtained from a Cheney spokesman — shed new light on where this is going. And a Cheney spokesman, quoted anonymously, told Sargent, “The committee will explore whether to make changes to current law to hold a future president accountable. Then there’s the question of whether disrupting the electoral count constitutes obstructing an official proceeding, and whether Trump, in inciting the mob to descend on the Capitol during that count, participated in that obstruction.

Source: Washington Post January 04, 2022 23:46 UTC