On December 19, the committee referred four Republican lawmakers to the House Ethics Committee for ignoring subpoenas earlier this year.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Representative Scott Perry (R-PA), and Representative Andy Biggs (R-Texas) are among those named in the referrals (R-AR.)
During the same session, the committee recommended that former President Donald Trump face criminal charges in connection with the Capitol breach on January 6, 2021 for asking supporters “to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol to let their voices be heard.”
Earlier this year, the House Ethics Committee summoned Representatives McCarthy, Jordan, Perry, and Biggs to testify. None of them complied.
On Twitter, Biggs responded to the ethics committee’s referral, saying that the committee wants lawmakers’ testimony “to have the ability to edit and misconstrue our statements to further their own false narratives, as they did with so many witnesses.”
Perry’s spokesperson, Jay Ostrich, said, “More games from a petulant and soon-to-be defunct kangaroo court desperate for revenge and struggling to get out from under the weight of its own irrelevancy.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“Congressman Perry is sticking to his promise to help his constituents, who have overwhelmingly sent him back to Washington to fix what President Biden and his enablers have broken,” Ostrich continued.
The charges were “just another partisan and political stunt made by a Select Committee that knowingly altered evidence, blocked minority representation on a Committee for the first time in the history of the United States House of Representatives, and failed to respond to Mr. Jordan’s numerous letters and concerns surrounding the politicization and legitimacy of the Committee’s work,” according to Russell Dye, Rep. Jim Jordan’s spokesperson.
Raskin told reporters that the recommended charges only named four members of Congress because there was ample evidence that they had committed crimes on January 6, 2021.
Raskin told the media that the Jan. 6 committee did not invoke any seditious conspiracy charges; this charge was primarily for Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
Since its inception, the Jan. 6 Committee has been chastised for its partisanship and anti-Trump bias. The Democratic-led committee of nine representatives includes only two Republicans, both outspoken Trump critics who voted to impeach the former president in January 2021 and were appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
