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Jon Skolnik

Jan. 6 panel openly frustrated with DOJ

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is sworn in at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about oversight of the Department of Justice on October 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis-Pool/Getty Images

Members of the January 6 select committee are growing frustrated by the Justice Department's apparent unwillingness to charge a number of Donald Trump associates with contempt of Congress despite what appears to be a strong basis for doing so. 

On Monday evening, the panel's members sounded off over the agency's inaction after making two more criminal referrals against former Trump aides Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro, both of whom played an alleged part in the former president's failed election coup. 

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