United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Former select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives
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| 2025 | The Committee's members were nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in defending freedom and democracy. |
| January 2025 | Jack Smith resigned from his role as special counsel before Trump's inauguration. |
| January 22 2025 | House Majority Leader Mike Johnson announced the formation of a panel to investigate the January 6 committee. |
| January 20 2025 | Trump granted clemency to all January 6 rioters upon taking office, including Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. |
| January 20 2025 | President Biden issued a preemptive pardon to all committee members, staffers, and the four police officers who testified, hours before leaving office, in response to threats from President-elect Trump. |
| January 7 2025 | The special counsel's 137-page final report was publicly released, noting use of the House Select Committee's December 2022 report in the investigation. |
| January 6 2025 | Representative Joseph Morelle released a report containing an email from Hutchinson's lawyer denying any 'improper communications' with Liz Cheney. |
| January 2 2025 | Chair Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Joe Biden for their work during difficult times |
| December 2024 | The House Administration oversight subcommittee, led by Representative Barry Loudermilk, issued a report alleging that Liz Cheney should be criminally investigated for witness tampering regarding Cassidy Hutchinson. |
| December 17 2024 | The Loudermilk-led subcommittee released its 'Interim report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th select committee'. |
| December 17 2024 | The same subcommittee released its 'Interim report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th select committee' |
| December 8 2024 | Trump claimed in an NBC News interview that every committee member should be jailed and falsely alleged evidence deletion. |
| November 2024 | Trump was elected President. |
| November 25 2024 | Special counsel Jack Smith filed to drop the charges against Trump after Trump won the 2024 presidential election, and Judge Chutkan approved the request and dismissed the case. |
| October 2024 | Steve Bannon was imprisoned for four months for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before the committee. |
| July 2024 | Peter Navarro was imprisoned for four months for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before the committee. |
| July 2 2024 | Department of Justice announces it will continue to prosecute the election subversion case, citing its policy of not limiting prosecutions to only sitting presidents. |
| July 1 2024 | The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States on presidential immunity, defining different levels of legal protection for presidential acts. |
| June 28 2024 | The Supreme Court decided in Fischer v. United States that prosecutors could validly bring obstruction charges for attempting to block electoral certificates. |
| June 4 2024 | Wisconsin indicted three people, including Kenneth Chesebro. |
| April 23 2024 | Arizona indicted eleven fake electors and seven Trump allies, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, who were previously identified by the House committee. |
| March 11 2024 | Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight released its 'Initial Findings Report' investigating the January 6 Committee |
| March 4 2024 | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot remove Trump from the ballot, determining that this power lies with Congress. |
| February 14 2024 | James Renner, a Michigan fake elector who made a deal to cooperate, testified at a hearing for other fake electors facing forgery charges. |
| February 4 2024 | The FBI identified over 5,000 employees who worked on Capitol attack investigations, leading to a lawsuit by the FBI Agents Association against the Justice Department. |
| 2023 | Meadows was indicted in Georgia for his alleged role in election interference. |
| December 19 2023 | The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump should be removed from the ballot based on the 14th Amendment. |
| December 5 2023 | Nevada indicted six people in the fake elector scheme, including two individuals previously interviewed by the select committee. |
| August 2023 | Trump was charged with election interference, both federally and in Georgia, resembling the committee's conclusions and recommendations. |
| August 14 2023 | A Georgia grand jury indicted Trump on 13 counts related to election fraud. |
| August 1 2023 | A grand jury indicted Trump on four counts related to the January 6 investigation. |
| July 18 2023 | Michigan indicted 16 people who signed fake documents, including two individuals previously interviewed by the select committee. |
| April 2023 | An appellate court ruled that the crime of obstruction does not require document tampering, reversing a previous U.S. district judge's decision. |
| April 4 2023 | Trump is arraigned in the Manhattan district attorney's hush-money case. |
| March 8 2023 | The Republican-controlled House Administration's subcommittee on oversight initiated an investigation to review the former House select committee's activities. |
| February 22 2023 | Timothy Heaphy, the committee's top investigator, predicted potential indictments in Georgia and at the federal level. |
| January 2023 | The January 6th Committee dissolved in early January after completing its investigation and releasing its final report. |
| 2022 | A special counsel is appointed to oversee the investigation. |
| 2022 | The Justice Department subpoenaed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) twice, seeking documents related to the January 6 events. |
| 2022 | Republicans threatened to target Democratic committee assignments, specifically mentioning Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar, if they won the House majority in the midterm elections. |
| 2022 | Meadows complied with a DOJ subpoena in the investigation of January 6. |
| December 2022 | Donald Trump responded to the committee's final report by calling the members 'Marxists' and 'sick people'. |
| December 2022 | Representative Schiff stated the committee would publish its evidence to prevent the incoming Republican-majority House from potentially misrepresenting the investigation's findings. |
| December 2022 | A reform of election certification procedures was passed in the omnibus spending bill, based on collaborative work by committee members that began in 2021. |
| December 30 2022 | The committee continued releasing additional witness testimony transcripts. |
| December 28 2022 | Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade commented on the potential legal challenges in proving Trump's charges, suggesting his interest in blanket pardons could be used as evidence of awareness of guilt. |
| December 28 2022 | Chairman Thompson wrote to Trump's lawyers withdrawing the committee's subpoena, citing the upcoming change in Congressional leadership which would effectively end the committee's operations. |
| December 23 2022 | The committee released 46 more interview transcripts from high-profile witnesses, including Ivanka Trump, Bill Barr, Pat Cipollone, Jeffrey Rosen, Hope Hicks, Kayleigh McEnany, Sidney Powell, and Marc Short. |
| December 22 2022 | Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance discusses ongoing investigations into potential legal actions against Donald Trump on MSNBC, highlighting multiple concurrent investigations including the Georgia election interference case and the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. |
| December 22 2022 | The committee publicly released its final report, recommending that the Department of Justice pursue criminal charges against Trump. Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony transcripts were also released, revealing that Trump allies had pressured her not to testify. |
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