Trump taps firm to handle his Jan. 6 committee subpoena

Harmeet Dhillon, the firm’s managing partner, is simply a nationalist Republican committeewoman from California. She has helmed litigation related to different blimpish causes including pushing backmost connected policies that unopen down schools, churches and businesses during the Covid pandemic. Dhillon has besides been captious of erstwhile prime committee and Justice Department expansive assemblage subpoenas to her different clients.

A spokesperson for the prime committee declined to comment.

The committee’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), indicated that the subpoena would request Trump’s grounds and besides applicable documents astir his engagement successful the events that preceded the Jan. 6 onslaught by a pro-Trump mob connected the Capitol. Among the remaining questions is erstwhile and however it volition beryllium delivered.

“I deliberation we person made it wide … [the subpoena] volition beryllium coming,” sheet subordinate Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Wednesday evening connected CNN. “Nothing’s changed connected that front. And we volition spot wherever we spell from here.”

The committee has spent caller months detailing its lawsuit that Trump is singularly liable for the unit that occurred that day, fomenting his supporters’ fury by stoking mendacious claims of predetermination fraud and engineering aggregate efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s triumph and disrupt the transportation of power.

While Trump has publically flirted with the imaginable of voluntarily appearing earlier the prime committee, it is improbable that the sheet could unit him to look if helium opts to situation their subpoena. Only 1 erstwhile president has been subpoenaed by lawmakers successful the past 150 years. That was Harry Truman successful 1953, and helium declined to appear, citing a imaginable encroachment connected the separation of powers.

Any litigation implicit the contented could instrumentality years to resolve, and the prime committee is acceptable to dissolve by Jan. 3, 2023 erstwhile the existent Congress ends.