Two freshman House Democrats will be part of a congressional delegation led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to the D.C. jail — where Jan. 6 riot defendants are being held.
Two freshman House Democrats will be part of a congressional delegation led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the D.C. jail — where Jan. 6 riot defendants are being held.A spokesperson for House Oversight Democrats said progressive Reps. Summer Lee and Jasmine Crockett "will cut through Republicans’ attempts to whitewash the dangerous realities of Jan. 6."Don't expect the kind of bipartisan cameraderie sometimes found at CODELs led by lawmakers with aligned visions.
The spokesperson said the "MAGA-led tour" is "nothing more than Speaker McCarthy making good on his promise to give control of the Committee to extreme Republican voices" and noted Lee and Crockett "spent their careers protecting the civil rights of those who are actually marginalized." Lee, in a brief interview at the Capitol on Thursday, framed her goal as "visiting incarcerated Americans," adding, "Nothing that I do is 'joining' Marjorie Taylor Greene. She is not my leader."Lee and Crockett aren't the only ones who want to harness the right-wing focus on the treatment of accused Capitol rioters as an opportunity to highlight broader issue of prison reform and prisoners' rights.
"I have a Bureau of Prisons oversight reform [bill]. I'll go to any federal prison and talk about that," Rep. Kelly Armstrong , a more moderate Oversight member, told Axios earlier this month. "If we're going to visit the D.C. jail, we should be talking to all the defendants and not just a subset ... unless that subset is being treated differently, and I don't think they are," Armstrong said.House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday met with the mother of Ashli Babbitt, the Trump supporterAnd in another sign House Republicans are forging ahead with their
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