Jan. 6 panel details case for holding Meadows in contempt ahead of House vote

Source: The Hill | December 12, 2021 | Olafimihan Oshin

The House committee investigating the January 6th attack at the Capitol released a resolution Sunday detailing its recommendation to hold former President Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress, ahead of a House vote on the matter planned for this week.

In a 51-page document released Sunday, the committee lays out its efforts to obtain documents and testimony from Meadows, and notes repeated warnings from its chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss), of the consequences if he refused to cooperate.

“Mr. Meadows’s failure to appear for deposition testimony in the face of this clear advisement and warning by the Chairman, and after being given a second chance to cooperate with the Select Committee, constitutes a willful failure to comply with the subpoena,” the committee wrote. 

The House committee told an attorney for Meadows that it was moving forward with contempt charges against the former chief of staff due to his not appearing before a second scheduled deposition on Wednesday.

“The Select Committee is left with no choice but to advance contempt proceedings and recommend that the body in which Mr. Meadows once served refer him for criminal prosecution,” Thompson wrote in a letter to George Terwilliger III, Meadows’ attorney. 

Democratic leaders announced on Thursday that the full House would vote on the contempt measure this coming week. 

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