.thereidout Blog: House Minority McCarthy’s Jan. 6 obstruction should be a wake-up call for Democrats on voting rights bill
— and you can sense from his latest remarks that he takes comfort in knowing he could be overseeing the probe in less than a year.
“This committee is not conducting a legitimate investigation,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said in a statement Wednesday. “The committee’s only objective is to attempt to damage its political opponents — acting like the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee one day and the DOJ the next.” In fact, the committee told McCarthy in a letter that it wants to ask about several Jan. 6-related issues, including conversations he had with then-PresidentMcCarthy's claims about an illegitimate inquiry are false, but that statement might not matter if, come November, he’s using them to thwart or manipulate investigations centered on his alleged involvement or knowledge of an insurrection.
And that’s just one clear example of the way actively backing voting rights can deter extremist behavior. Had voter protections been passed to counter
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