The House Committee investigating Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol approved Monday a bill to refer ex-Trump aides Peter Navarro to the Justice Department to face criminal contempt charges.

It voted 9-1 to recommend the House. Seven Democrats and two Republicans are part of the panel, which is composed of members who have not been approved by GOP leadership.

This panel’s vote opens the door for the House vote to determine whether or not the Justice Department should refer the pair to it for a misdemeanor which could result in up to one year imprisonment and fines of up to $100,000.

Navarro was a trade advisor during Trump’s administration. Scavino served as White House deputy Chief of Staff. The committee subpoenaed them to testify. They were also asked for documents related to the attack last year that disrupted 2020 electoral vote counts during a joint session.

According to a report issued by the committee Sunday, both Navarro and Scavino have cited “executive privilege” as their reason for not cooperating with the panel, arguing only former President Donald Trump can waive that privilege even though President Joe Biden already has.

It committee The former aides were “key players in ex-president’s efforts to reverse the 2020 election,” he said.

Specifically, the panel stated that Navarro had publicly boasted about He plans to overturn the results of the 2020 elections and published a book last January in which he called the plan the “The”Green Bay Sweep.” He claimed that “it was the last, best chance to steal an electoral election from Democrats’ jaws .”’

Navarro explained that the idea was for members of Congress to debate electoral results from six swing states. The hope is to then have Congress declaring the results in dispute. This would allow the House to choose the president on the basis of each congressional delegation receiving one vote. Navarro assumed Trump would be elected to a second term because Republicans control more state delegations that Democrats.

According to the report of the committee, Navarro stated that Trump is “on board” with the strategy along with over 100 other members.

Monday’s request for comments was not answered by Navarro immediately.

Scavino, who ran Trump’s social media, was one of the first people subpoenaed by the committee last year. According to the panel, Scavino was part of President Trump’s effort to reverse the election results. The campaign involved, among others, the spreading of false information via Social Media regarding election fraud, and recruiting people to Washington for events on January 6.

Former deputy chief of staff “reportedly participated in several meetings” with Trump, where challenges to his election were addressed. The committee reported that Mr. Scavino was also a monitor of social media, at a moment when some sites Mr. Scavino frequented suggested violence on January 6.

Panel members also stated that Scavino worked for Trump’s presidential campaign, and continued to do so “after the 2020 election,” promoting activities to reverse the results of an election lost.

“Mr. Scavino collaborated directly with President Trump in spreading President Trump’s false message about the election being stolen, and also to recruit Americans into Washington with the false promise to ‘take back their nation’ on January 6th,” Liz Cheney, R. Wyo., committee vice chair, stated Monday, shortly before the vote. The Committee had many questions to ask Mr. Scavino regarding his work with President Trump’s social media, which included his interactions with a forum called “The Donald” and Qanon. Qanon is a strange and dangerous cult.

Scavino’s attorney didn’t immediately respond to my request for comment.

The House has already voted on criminal referrals for two other officials who defied the panel’s subpoenas — former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

On the Bannon recommendation by Justice Department, which was published in The Washington Post it does not always do. Bannon was charged two counts of contempt. He has pleaded innocent and is set to face trial in July.

Meadows’ referral to Justice Department was passed by the House on December 31st.

Just hours after Trump-allied lawyer John Eastman was found guilty in civil litigation, a California federal judge declared Monday night that the email scandal is over. more likely than “Not that President Trump or Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired in order to obstruct Congress’ Joint Session on January 6, 2021.” Eastman was directed to give 101 emails to the House panel.

The committee met Monday to decide whether it should hold a closed session to examine Virginia “Ginni”, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. It was to be discussed whether the members should interview Virginia “Ginni”, Thomas over texts she sent to Mark Meadows, former White House chief-of-staff, in which she asked him to. push Trump to fight the election results.

Two sources informed NBC that Ginni is on the verge of calling Ginni in to interview. But, they will talk about the subject in depth during Monday’s closed-door session.

The panel will be interviewing Jared Kushner (a former Trump adviser), later in the week according to three sources.

The first report about Kushner’s Thursday appearance was made by ABC News.