Mark Meadows Likely To Face Criminal Referral After He Refuses To Comply With 1/6 Committee Subpoena

The deadline has passed for Mark Meadows to look earlier the 1/6 Committee, truthful the erstwhile Trump main of unit volition apt beryllium facing a transgression referral.

Meadows made it wide connected Thursday that helium would not comply with committee subpoena:

Former White House CoS Mark Meadows making wide contiguous helium volition not cooperate w/ Jan. 6 committee until courts regularisation connected Trump privilege claim.

Comes aft Meadows received a caller missive saying Biden won't asseverate privilege oregon immunity implicit docs & testimony. (@JaxAlemany was first). pic.twitter.com/qNOtg8Pm6V

— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) November 11, 2021

1/6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson responded successful a missive to Meadows’ lawyer, “The Select Committee volition presumption Mr. Meadows’s nonaccomplishment to look astatine the deposition, and to nutrient responsive documents oregon a privilege log indicating the circumstantial ground for withholding immoderate documents you judge are protected by privilege, arsenic willful noncompliance Such willful noncompliance with the subpoena would unit the Select Committee to see invoking the contempt of Congress procedures … which could effect successful a referral from the House of Representatives to the Department of Justice for transgression charges –as good arsenic the anticipation of having a civilian enactment to enforce the subpoena brought against Mr. Meadows successful his idiosyncratic capacity.”

Meadows is successful up to his eyeballs connected Trump’s coup. Meadows was a cardinal plotter and go-between for the Willard warfare room, insurrection organizers, and Trump.

It is captious that the DOJ prosecute Steve Bannon for transgression contempt of Congress due to the fact that it volition enactment an extremity to the stonewalling of Meadows and different witnesses.

The House indispensable besides pass Rep. Ted Lieu’s inherent contempt legislation to commencement making defiance of subpoenas hurt. The House has aggregate tools successful its toolbox to enforce subpoenas, if the DOJ doesn’t bash its job, the House volition find different way.