The January 6 Committee’s ‘Criminal Referral’ Kerfuffle

Rest assured that the politically fraught and not entirely coherent meanderings of a congressional committee’s ‘criminal referral’ will carry little if any weight.

As observed here last week, the bipartisan unity studiously projected by the January 6 committee’s seven Democrats and two Republicans quickly breaks down when the subject strays from whether Donald Trump is contemptible and condemnable (unanimous, emphatic yes) to questions of what to do about it.

So it was again Monday night, when a mini tempest broke out on Twitter over whether the committee would make a “criminal referral”...