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• General testifies about trumps efforts subvert install#

It also represents a significant move by the White House Office of Legal Counsel under Biden, which in authorising the decision, pointedly noted that executive privilege protections exist to benefit the country, rather than a single individual. The justice department’s decision marks a sharp departure from the Trump era, when the department repeatedly intervened on behalf of top White House officials to assert executive privilege and shield them from congressional investigations into the former president. Rosen and Trump administration witnesses can give “unrestricted testimony” to the Senate judiciary and House oversight committees, which are scrutinising the attempt by the Trump White House to stop Congress certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, the letter said. But a DoJ official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said they expected that approval to extend to the 6 January select committee that began proceedings on Tuesday.īennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee, told the Guardian in a recent interview that he would investigate both Trump and anyone who communicated with the former president on 6 January, raising the prospect of depositions with an array of Trump officials. 6 riot has subpoenaed other Trump allies, including former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.Ĭlark could not be reached for comment on the investigation.The justice department authorised witnesses to appear specifically before the two committees. In addition to the congressional investigations, Clark faces a DOJ probe and ethics complaints before the District of Columbia Bar.Īside from Clark, the House select committee on the Jan. He now serves as chief of litigation and director of strategy at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative civil rights group. While he was head of DOJ’s environment division, Clark pursued enforcement cases under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and led the defense of Trump-era rules from EPA and other key agencies.ĭuring the last months of the Trump administration, Clark also took over as head of DOJ’s Civil Division. The letter also says Clark’s "efforts risked involving the Department of Justice in actions that lacked evidentiary foundation and threatened to subvert the rule of law."

"The Select Committee’s investigation has revealed credible evidence that you attempted to involve the Department of Justice in efforts to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power," the committee wrote in its letter to Clark. 6, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol following a rally with the president in an attempt to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden’s election victory. Trump backed down on that issue.īut three days later, on Jan. 3 meeting among Trump, Rosen and other high-level DOJ officials, who told the president that senior department leaders would resign if he continued pushing for the letter.

General testifies about trumps efforts subvert install#

The committee’s subpoena follows the release last week of a Senate Judiciary Committee interim report, which offered new details about Clark’s efforts to oust then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.Īccording to the report, Clark told Rosen he would decline Trump’s offer to install Clark as acting attorney general if Rosen signed off on letters to Georgia and other swing states that falsely stated DOJ had "taken notice" of election irregularities ( Greenwire, Oct. Clark’s role in these efforts at the Justice Department and learn who was involved across the administration," Thompson said.

"The Select Committee needs to understand all the details about efforts inside the previous administration to delay the certification of the 2020 election and amplify misinformation about the election results," said committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) in a statement yesterday.