1/6 Committee Refers Jim Jordan And Kevin McCarthy To Ethics Committee For Failing To Comply With Subpoena

The 1/6 Committee has referred Reps. Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, and Andy Biggs to the House Ethics Committee for sanctions for not complying with a lawful subpoena.

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1/6 Committee refers Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, and 2 different House Republicans to the Ethics Committee for sanctions for failing to comply with a lawful legislature subpoena. pic.twitter.com/7CSobjeNoq

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said astatine the 1/6 Committee meeting:

Nor are President Trump and his squad the lone radical identified for referrals and our report. As portion of our investigation, we asked aggregate members of legislature to talk with america astir issues captious to our knowing of this onslaught connected the 2020 predetermination and our strategy of law democracy. None agreed to supply that indispensable information.

As a result, we took the important measurement of issuing them subpoenas based connected the measurement of accusation that peculiar members possessed astir 1 oregon much parts of president trump’s plans to overturn the election. None of the subpoenaed members complied. And present we are referring 4 members of legislature for due sanctions by the House Ethics Committee for nonaccomplishment to comply with lawful subpoenas.

Mr. Chairman, we recognize the gravity of each and each referral we are making today. Just arsenic we recognize the magnitude of the transgression against ideology that we described successful our report.

Referring McCarthy, Jordan, Perry, and Biggs to the Ethics Committee was a astute prime due to the fact that the House Ethics Committee contains nary partisan majority. It is evenly split.

The 1/6 Committee doesn’t person the clip to writer the House Republicans to comply with the subpoenas, and it is simply a phantasy to deliberation that the Justice Department would prosecute a subordinate of Congress for contempt of Congress adjacent if the House would person had the clip to walk contempt charges.

The morals investigations could hound Jordan, McCarthy, Perry, and Biggs for years. McCarthy has bigger problems arsenic his vocation is astir apt implicit if helium isn’t elected speaker, but the committee did the close happening by making definite that defying a lawful subpoena carries consequences.

Jason is the managing editor. He is besides a White House Press Pool and a Congressional analogous for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree successful Political Science. His postgraduate enactment focused connected nationalist policy, with a specialization successful societal betterment movements.

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