Late Tuesday evening, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that the House would file an amicus brief in support of Steve Bannon’s appeal against his contempt of Congress conviction related to the January 6 investigation by the illegitimate January 6th Committee.
The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), a standing body of the U.S. House of Representatives established in 1993, is composed of the Speaker of the House along with the majority and minority leaderships. BLAG oversees the House’s Office of General Counsel, providing guidance and oversight on legal issues and decisions involving the House.
The decision by the BLAG also declared the subpoenas issued by the J6 committee illegitimate, including the one that Steve Bannon was charged with defying.
The Citizen Press tweeted about the “big news” for Steve Bannon on Tuesday night:
Big news for Steve Bannon tonight
1) The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) voted tonight 3-2, confirming the offiicial legal position of the House is that the J6 committee was illegitimate, and all subpoenas issued by the committee were also illegitimate.
2) BLAG has now directed the House Office of General Counsel to file an Amicus Brief in support of Steve Bannon with Justice Roberts.
3) Matt Gaetz explains how the BLAG process works, in the video.
4) I spoke with Bannon in the last hour and he is optimistic.
Big news for Steve Bannon tonight
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 26, 2024
1) The Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) voted tonight 3-2, confirming the offiicial legal position of the House is that the J6 committee was illegitimate, and all subpoenas issued by the committee were also illegitimate.
2) BLAG has now…
Speaker Johnson appeared on Fox News tonight with Sean Hannity to discuss the great news.
Sean Hannity asked Speaker Johnson to provide an update on the latest actions by the House: “Mr. Speaker, I understand that might be a change in position regarding the House and their stance on the January 6 Committee, and it might be regarding Steve Bannon, and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. Tell me what’s going on…”
Speaker Johnson responded, “Yeah, we’re working on filing an amicus brief on his appellate work there in his case because the January 6 committee was, we think, wrongly, wrongfully constituted. We think the work was tainted. We think that they may have very well covered up evidence and maybe even more nefarious activities. We’ve been investigating the committee itself. We disagree with how Speaker Pelosi put all that together. We think it violated House rules. And so we will be expressing that to the court, and I think it will help Steve Bannon in his appeal.”
Watch:
BREAKING
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 26, 2024
Mike Johnson just announced that he has authorized the House to submit a congressional Amicus Brief on behalf of Steve Bannon to the Supreme Court and Justice Roberts.
Finally some positive momentum for Bannon.pic.twitter.com/gH9mR2XI8Y
Speaker Johnson also appeared on CNN to discuss the decision by the House. Trump-hater Kaitlin Collins was not happy and didn’t seem to understand or accept that the J6 committee is, in fact, illegitimate.
At one point, she asked Speaker Johnson, “Do you worry that will undercut your ability to enforce congressional subpoenas in the future, though?”, clearly still pushing the narrative that the J6 committee was legitimate.
Legitimate House committees will have no problem enforcing subpoenas in the future.
Watch:
Presented without comment about Kaitlin’s affect here.
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) June 26, 2024
But more important to note is that CNN continues to spread the lie that executive privilege cannot be taken by a President in connection with communications engaged in with someone outside government (see end of the clip… https://t.co/tqDGev77Vn
