The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol rebellion is anticipated to launch its last report Wednesday afternoon. The committee on Monday referred former President Donald Trump for 4 legal costs.

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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol rebellion is anticipated to launch its last report Wednesday afternoon. The committee on Monday referred former President Donald Trump for 4 legal costs.

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Nearly two years after the lethal Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, the Democratic-led House committee investigating the assault is ready to launch its full report Wednesday afternoon.

The report’s launch would come two days after panel members held their final business hearing Monday, the place they referred former President Donald Trump to the Department of Justice on four criminal charges, together with aiding, aiding or comforting these concerned in an rebellion.

The committee additionally referred 4 Republican House members — Kevin McCarthy of California, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona — to the House Ethics Committee for failure to adjust to subpoenas.

A summary of the report was additionally launched Monday, which incorporates the panel’s key findings an proof associated to the legal referrals.

What else will come out within the full report?

The full report, which is anticipated to be eight chapters lengthy, will embody extra proof, together with detailed descriptions of the scheme pushed by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election outcomes. It may even have citations from the greater than 1,000 interviews the committee members performed over the course of their 18-month investigation.

But Wednesday’s anticipated launch will not be the final we hear from the panel.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chairs the committee, advised reporters that transcripts of non-sensitive interviews they performed can be launched between now and the tip of the yr, when the panel formally sunsets.

What occurs now that the committee has completed its investigation?

The committee referred Trump to the Department of Justice on 4 costs: obstruction of an official continuing; conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to make a false assertion; and conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by aiding, aiding or comforting these concerned in an rebellion.

Whether the Justice Department will take any motion is unclear. Since Trump introduced one other run for the presidency, the DOJ appointed special counsel Jack Smith to guide the division’s investigations into the previous president.

Whether the committee’s referrals of House members to the ethics committee will transfer ahead can also be unclear — although it is seemingly they hit a wall as Republicans are set to take management of the House within the new yr.

In an announcement launched Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., praised the committee’s work, however didn’t define what she sees as the following steps for the referrals of the 4 House members.

“The Committee has reached important conclusions about the evidence it has developed, and I respect those findings. Our Founders made clear that, in the United States of America, no one is above the law. This bedrock principle remains unequivocally true, and justice must be done,” Pelosi mentioned.

One factor to observe, although, is the legislative suggestions within the report for measures Congress can enact to assist keep away from one other Jan. 6 riot.

A invoice updating the Electoral Count Act has bipartisan backing and has been connected to the omnibus spending invoice transferring by Congress within the coming days.