Trumpists stitched a legal theory from whole cloth. The hearings tore it apart | Lloyd Green

Over the course of nearly three hours, the public repeatedly heard that Mike Pence lacked the authority to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election

On Thursday, the House special committee again met. An hour earlier, Representative Bennie Thompson announced that the committee would invite Ginni Thomas, wife of US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, to testify. A day before, a federal court rejected Steve Bannon's attempt to dismiss contempt of Congress charges.

The court cannot conclude that the committee was invalidly constituted such that the indictment should be dismissed," Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, announced. If convicted at an upcoming trial, Bannon, a former Trump senior adviser, faces up to two years in prison.