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Lawfare No Bull: United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack

Katherine Pompilio, Quinta Jurecic, Roger Parloff, Molly E. Reynolds, Benjamin Wittes
Friday, June 10, 2022, 12:00 PM

On June 9, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol held its first public hearing.

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Today on Lawfare No Bull: On June 9, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol—better known as the Jan. 6 committee—held its first public hearing. This hearing focused on detailing the events of the Capitol riot, and laying the groundwork for the committee’s case that the events of Jan. 6 were the culmination of what Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson called “a sprawling, multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election.” The committee also heard testimony from Nick Quested, a documentarian who had embedded with the Proud Boys, and Caroline Edwards, a Capitol police officer who was one of the first to face the rioters. 

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On Friday, June 10 at 8:30 a.m. ET , Quinta Jurecic, Roger Parloff, Molly Reynolds, and Benjamin Wittes took to Twitter Spaces to discuss what to make of the hearing. They also answered audience questions. 

Listen to a recording of Lawfare’s Twitter Spaces about day one of the public Jan. 6 committee hearings here or below:

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Katherine Pompilio

Katherine Pompilio

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Katherine Pompilio is an associate editor of Lawfare. She holds a B.A. with honors in political science from Skidmore College.
Quinta Jurecic

Quinta Jurecic

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Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Roger Parloff

Roger Parloff

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Roger Parloff is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. For 12 years, he was the main legal correspondent at Fortune Magazine. His work has also been published in ProPublica, The New York Times, New York, NewYorker.com, Yahoo Finance, Air Mail, IEEE Spectrum, Inside, Legal Affairs, Brill’s Content, and others. An attorney who no longer practices, he is the author of "Triple Jeopardy," a book about an Arizona death penalty case. He is a senior editor at Lawfare.
Molly E. Reynolds

Molly E. Reynolds

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Molly Reynolds is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She studies Congress, with an emphasis on how congressional rules and procedure affect domestic policy outcomes.
Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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