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The report also revealed how former DOJ Acting Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark became Trump’s Big Lie Lawyer, attempting to pressure his colleagues in DOJ to overturn of the 2020 election.

Former acting testifies trumps efforts subvert full#

Following the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on our Capitol, stemming from former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, in October 2021, Durbin and the Committee released new testimony and a staff report entitled “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and his Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election.” The report and testimony revealed that our nation was only a half-step away from a full blown constitutional crisis as President Trump and his loyalists threatened a wholesale takeover of DOJ.Durbin held a BOP oversight hearing in September 2022 with the new Director, Colette Peters, which was her first testimony before Congress since taking over at the Bureau. Durbin called for a new, reform-minded Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director to replace former Director Michael Carvajal in November 2021, following an Associated Press report that found that BOP is a “hotbed of abuse, graft and corruption, and has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct.” Carvajal’s resignation was announced less than two months later.Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Chris Wray testified in a hearing on domestic terrorism and the January 6 insurrection-the Committee’s first FBI oversight hearing since 2019 and the first testimony Wray had given since the January 6 attack.