On January 18 of this year The 1/6 Committee subpoenaed Trump Attorney Jenna Ellis.
This is what the committee is looking for:
The Select Committee’s investigation has revealed credible evidence that you publicly promoted claims that the 2020 election was stolen and participated in attempts to disrupt or delay the certification of the election results based on your allegations. Between mid-November 2020 and January 6, 2021 (and thereafter), you actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of former President Trump and sought to convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results. According to public reporting, you prepared and circulated two memos purporting to analyze the constitutional authority for the Vice President to reject or delay counting electoral votes from states that had submitted alternate slates of electors.
You can read the two memos here.
In the first memo, Ellis memoes:
On January 6, the Vice President should therefore not open any of the votes from these six states, and instead direct a question to, the legislatures of each of those states and ask them to confirm which of the two slates of electors have in fact been chosen in the manner the legislature has provided for under Article 11, Section 1.2 of the U.S. Constitution.
On February 15 of this year The 1/6 Committee subpoenaed Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano.
This is what the committee is looking for:
Based on publicly available information and information produced to the Select Committee, we believe that you have documents and information that are relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation. For example, we understand that you have knowledge of and participated in a plan to arrange for an alternate slate of electors to be presented to the President of the Senate on January 6, 2021, and we understand that you spoke with former President Trump about your post-election activities. We understand you participated in these activities based on assertions of voter fraud and other asserted irregularities and based on a stated belief that under the U.S. Constitution the “state legislature has the sole authority to direct the manner of selecting delegates to the Electoral College.” We have an interest in understanding these activities and the theories that motivated them.
Based on your public statements, we understand that you were present during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and that you witnessed “agitators...getting in the face of the police” and “agitators...start pushing the police up the [Capitol] steps.”
Hmm. Interesting. Those two lines of inquiry overlap, don't they? Ellis lays out a plan outlining how VP Pence should stop (in this case Pennsylvania's) electoral vote count in order to, in a sense, open the door for an alternative slate of Pennsylvania electors AND the committee says it understands that Mastriano has "knowledge of and participated in" a plan "to arrange for an alternate state of electors" for Pennsylvania.
Interesting.
So what do you think they talked about this week?
