House investigators are in many ways making their case to the American public, the sources said, since it is not certain whether the panel will make criminal referrals to federal prosecutors, given they are not binding on the justice department, which has the sole authority to file charges.
But that quest will come with its own challenges, and the panel’s greatest difficulty is perhaps not so much whether they can show wrongdoing by Trump and his top advisers, but whether it can get Republican and independent voters to care.
The repeated delays in holding the hearings have meant House investigators were able to finish most of the evidence-gathering they intended to conduct (the committee initially anticipated holding them sometime in “the spring, then in April, then in May, and now in June).
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Still, the target audience for the select committee is not Republicans but swing voters, Ornstein said. “I don’t have any expectation that Republicans who believe the election was stolen will change their minds. But it’s about the other voters and whether it will jolt the Democratic base into understanding what the stakes are.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... c-hearings
Speculation has it that the SCOTUS will kill Roe on Thursday day so as to take thunder away from the hearings. My guess is the hearings will dominate the weekend news cycles, not the death of Roe.
Seditious conspiracy, obstruction of justice will be spotlighted by their stupidity not to cover their tracks. Comedy gold.
CDFingers