Bill > HRes44

This Resolution directs the Department of Justice, the federal agency responsible for enforcing the law, to initiate a criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump concerning his role in and encouragement of the violent events that occurred at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. The resolution cites President Trump's rally speech that day, where he urged his supporters to "fight like hell" and march to the Capitol, as evidence of his involvement. It also references federal laws against soliciting a crime of violence and seditious conspiracy, defining seditious conspiracy as a plot to oppose the government's authority or prevent the execution of its laws by force. The resolution emphasizes that no one, including a former President, is above the law and notes that a previous Justice Department policy preventing the indictment of a sitting President no longer applies to Donald J. Trump.