The decision to subpoena House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other sitting GOP lawmakers by the Jan. 6 House committee marked a sharp escalation in the panel’s inquiry – and the potential setting of a new modern precedent in the House.
ABC News political director Rick Klein discusses the significance of subpoenas and what it means for the Jan. 6 investigation.The decision to subpoena House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other sitting GOP lawmakers by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack marked a sharp escalation in the panel’s inquiry – and the potential setting of a new modern precedent in the House.
“The crucial matter is what the subpoenas are for,” Charles Tiefer, another former House counsel and law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, told ABC News. “I don't really see why the Justice Department can accumulate evidence about Jan. 6 but the House cannot.”Committee members argued that McCarthy, Reps.
The New York Times also reported that in the days after the attack, McCarthy told other Republican leaders he would urge, which he later claimed was a hypothetical comment. The California Republican initially criticized Trump but has since embraced him as Republicans work to regain the House. “It was not a decision that was taken lightly,” committee vice chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, told reporters on Thursday. “It’s a reflection of how important and serious the investigation is and how grave the attack on the Capitol was.”
Several committee members declined to say what steps the committee would take to respond to noncompliance.
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