Kevin McCarthy, January 6, and Willfully Ignorant Republicans
The Democrats are running their committee like a criminal trial. It's unconstitutional, but who will stop them?
by Melissa Mackenzie
January 3, 2022, 12:05 AM
Kevin McCarthy, Leader of the House Republican caucus, must decide whether he’ll confess, testify, before his Democrat peers, and Republican turncoat dead-enders Liz Cheney and Adam Kitzinger who form the panel he denounced. Maybe, finally, he’s seeing the issue clearly before him, but probably not. Heretofore, Republican lawmakers acted as if the January 6th Select Committee would only be targeting Trump world. Instead, the committee’s power seems limitless and they’re now conducting criminal investigations, even calling fellow House members to testify. This is all unprecedented.
Dana Bash interviewed Rep. Bennie Thompson Sunday, January 2nd, about the implications for their investigation. Thompson asserted to Bash that the insurrection was “not a comedy of errors.” It was planned, he believes, and he’s investigating the plan, the conspiracy to attack the Capitol.
Thompson’s uncomfortable comment as Bash pressed him may not sound like a big deal but it is. The select committee is on dangerous constitutional ground and Thompson knows it. They are not a criminal investigative body. Rep. Thompson just asserted that the select committee was investigating crimes — investigating a conspiracy.
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