Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas 5 Republican Representatives
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas on Thursday to five Republican members of Congress, including Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, who had refused to meet with the panel voluntarily.
The committee’s leaders had been reluctant to issue subpoenas to their fellow lawmakers. That is an extraordinarily rare step for most congressional committees to take, though the House Ethics Committee, which is responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct by members, is known to do so.
The panel said it was demanding documents and testimony from Mr. McCarthy, of California, who engaged in a heated phone call with Mr. Trump during the Capitol violence; Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, who coordinated a plan to try to replace the acting attorney general who had resisted Mr. Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud; Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, who was deeply involved in the effort to fight the election results; Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, the former leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus; and Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama, who has said Mr. Trump has continued to seek an unlawful reinstatement to office for more than a year.
All five have refused requests for voluntary interviews about the roles they played in the buildup to the attack by supporters of the former president who believed his lie of widespread election fraud. The subpoenas come as the committee is ramping up for a series of public hearings in June to reveal its findings. The eight hearings are slated to take place over several weeks beginning June 9, some during prime time in an effort to attract a large television audience.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/us/house-subpoenas-jan-6.html
Thursday dump.
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Report to THE COMMITTEE, you treasonous wankers, you.
And none of your damn KGOP whining, you hear. America is sick of Republican whining, as ye shall see.
Because nearly everyone else around them has offered theirs. What this move will do is show probable cause for criminal referrals and formulation of GJs if they are not already in place. It's a bolster to any case the DOJ may be bringing. Perhaps simply pro forma.
It also shows that they have made it up the ladder to the inner circle and this is part of the squeeze... just before the public hearings get rolling.
I need to stock up on popcorn.
(Scott Perry is a PA rep (PA-10) trying to hide under the radar)
Updated: May. 12, 2022, 1:31 p.m. | Published: May. 12, 2022, 1:29 p.m.
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack.
The Jan. 6 panel’s subpoenas for McCarthy, R-Calif., and Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama come as the investigation is winding down and as the panel prepares for a series of public hearings this summer.
The committee has been investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack and meetings that the four other lawmakers had with the White House as Trump and his aides conspired how to overturn his defeat.
Congressional subpoenas for sitting members of Congress, especially for a party leader, are almost without precedent in recent decades. The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel.
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https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2022/05/us-rep-scott-perry-4-other-gop-lawmakers-subpoenaed-in-jan-6-riot-investigation.html
GYM Jordan knows nothing. 
5 of the biggest blabbermouths in the house and they don't want to blabber? AMAZING
Politicians never refuse to get in front of a camera for exposure.
Obviously that have way, way to much they want to hide - which is even more reason that they need to be forced to answer to the Committee - and thus to the American people! 
especially Gym Jordan, that is if the DOJ can get them seated.
He's not a good advocate for himself and will likely just dig himself in deeper... 
his political career should be over, maybe his district will allow a Democrat to replace him.
