Yet another example of a Jan. 6 committee member misportraying a text message sent to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows emerged on Friday.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, incorrectly described on Tuesday a message to Meadows describing a strategy to overturn the results of the 2020 election as coming from a House lawmaker.
Anonymous sources told CNN that it was, as the news outlet put it, “an inadvertent error,” and a “Raskin source said the congressman learned of the error this week from CNN and confirmed the mistake with staff.”
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Raskin wrote a letter to correct the Congressional Record, according to the report, which noted the Jan. 6 panel declined to comment on the actual author of the text.
Raskin cited the text message during debate on holding Meadows in contempt of Congress after he stopped cooperating last week with the panel’s investigation into the Capitol riot.
“HERE’s an AGRESSIVE STRATEGY: Why can t (sic) the states of GA NC PENN and other R controlled state houses declare this is BS (where conflicts and election not called that night) and just send their own electors to vote and have it go to the SCOTUS,” the message said.
The CNN report claimed members of the Jan. 6 panel believe the author is Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who was also the former Texas governor, but a spokesman for him denied the text was his.
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One House lawmaker who already confirmed he sent a text message to Meadows obtained by the Jan. 6 panel is Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, after it was revealed Rep. Adam Schiff presented a graphic showing an altered text message between them.
The Jan. 6 panel apologized Wednesday for the “error,” which was truncating the message with a period, and Schiff presenting it to the public without full context.
“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all,” the graphic read.
Jordan’s office acknowledged the congressman from Ohio did send the message to Meadows but stressed that it was a snippet of a message he “forwarded” from an attorney, Joseph Schmitz, who was expressing a legal theory about overturning the results of the 2020 election.
“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence,” read the original text from the attorney. “‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916).”
Schmitz’s Jan. 5 text continued, “Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.”
The full House voted on Tuesday to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress, and he faces possible criminal prosecution by the Justice Department.
The Jan. 6 select committee has not responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
