Rep. Loudermilk’s Weekly Newsletter

CBS: 

House Republicans are creating a committee to “reinvestigate” the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

More than two months after the historic House Jan. 6 select committee disbanded and published its final report on the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, House Republicans are launching their own review of the Capitol riot.  

They plan to emphasize a different focus Jan. 6 with their panel. And the Georgia Republican who will chair the new panel is using the phrases “investigate both sides” and “show what really happened on Jan. 6” to describe the committee’s work.

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RedState:

Judge Kato Crews, nominee for US District Court for the District of Colorado, appeared on Capitol Hill Wednesday as part of his confirmation hearings and became the latest nominee who was unable to answer a basic legal question by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA).

Crews, who currently serves as a federal magistrate in Colorado, was unable to describe what the landmark US Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland was about. Brady, decided in 1963, “held that withholding exculpatory evidence violates due process ‘where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment.’” Seems like a pretty important case (and principle) to be crystal clear about.

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