As a result of the Republicans’ regaining control of the House of Representatives, the January 6th committee will cease to exist. tnyCloseRead considers the future of the investigations.
This summer, shortly before a jury in Texas ordered Alex Jones, the conspiracy peddler, to pay forty-nine million dollars in damages to the parents of one of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there was a legal scuffle over a piece of evidence. Jones’s defense team had accidentally sent the parents’ lawyer, Mark Bankston, a digital copy of the data on Jones’s phone—a lapse that Bankston had revealed in a cross-examination of Jones. Jones’s lawyer F.
The conundrum now is whether it was a mistake to think, as Judge Gamble suggested, that the January 6th committee couldn’t be stopped. It will cease to exist by the beginning of the year, as a result of the Republicans’ regaining control of the House. Four of the committee’s nine members will not be returning to Congress, including Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, the Republican vice-chair, and Elaine Luria, a Democrat from Virginia.
Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House Republicans, did get a subpoena, and simply defied it, as did several of his colleagues. McCarthy is trying to become Speaker of the House, for which he’ll need the votes of his caucus’s most extreme members. Perhaps in service of that effort, he sent Representative Bennie Thompson, of Mississippi, the committee’s Democratic chair, a letter last week threatening to investigate the investigators.
At times, the hearings may have been overproduced—too edited, too tightly scripted, too reliant on clips of video interviews rather than on live testimony from witnesses who might prove unpredictable. There have reportedly been internal disagreements about what the committee’s final report, which will shape its legacy, should emphasize or omit.
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