From the outset, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol has been marred by political motives and malfeasance, making it unlikely that the vast majority of Americans will have confidence in the committee’s ultimate findings.
In fact, before the hearings even began, the committee was tinged by partisan politics when Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied protocol and refused to seat two of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks for the committee — Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio — and instead chose Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
While Banks and Jordan would have added a semblance of balance and credibility to the nine-person committee (which consists of seven Democrats and two Republicans), Pelosi nixed both and replaced them with two of the most anti-Trump Republicans in Congress.
