WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon’s lawyers are seeking to question under oath Speaker Nancy Pelosi and every member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot as part of a legal challenge to whether the panel was properly formed.
Bannon was indicted in November by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with a subpoena for his testimony and document production. His trial is set for next month.
In a lead-up to the trial, Bannon’s lawyers questioned whether Pelosi and Democrats followed the House’s own rules in the formation and make-up of a bipartisan committee. A resolution that created the committee states it “shall” have 13 members. But the panel has only nine — seven Democrats and two Republicans, all of whom were selected by Pelosi.
