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. |
| January 6 2023 | President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to the four police officers who testified in the January 6th committee hearings: Harry Dunn, Michael Fanone, Aquilino Gonell, and Daniel Hodges, recognizing their bravery during the Capitol attack. |
| 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 31 2022 | The committee's official legal capacity to conduct their investigation expired. |
| 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. |
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