Constitutional Law · Government · Elections · Justice·December 19, 2022
On December 19, 2022, the House Select Committee voted unanimously to refer Donald Trump to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on four counts — obstruction, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement, and aiding an insurrection
Comprehensive timeline of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including the events leading up to the attack, the day itself, the immediate aftermath, legal proceedings, and long-term consequences.
The House Select Committee on January 6 voted to refer Donald Trump to the Department of Justice on four criminal charges: incitement of insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and conspiracy to make false statements. It was the first time Congress had referred a former president for criminal prosecution.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack spent 18 months interviewing more than 1,000 witnesses and concluded that Trump was "the central cause of January 6th" — a finding it built largely from testimony by Trump's own White House staff
Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Donald Trump on August 1, 2023, with four felony counts for running a multi-state scheme to keep himself in power after losing the 2020 presidential election
Special Counsel Jack Smith released Volume 1 of his final report on January 14, 2025, documenting the evidence against Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and concluding that the evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial had Trump not won re-election
Special Counsel Jack Smith released his 137-page final report on January 14, 2025, concluding his office had enough evidence to convict Trump at trial — but that Trump's re-election made prosecution constitutionally impossible under DOJ policy
The House Select Committee subpoenaed dozens of witnesses, secured Steve Bannon's criminal contempt conviction, and held Mark Meadows in contempt after the Justice Department declined to prosecute him — establishing how far congressional subpoena power actually reaches when the executive branch refuses to cooperate
Federal prosecutors charged former President Donald Trump on June 8, 2023, with 31 counts under the Espionage Act for willfully retaining national defense secrets and six additional counts for obstructing the government's retrieval effort
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