The ‘Law and Order’ Republican Party Just Overwhelmingly Voted in Favor of Letting Steve Bannon Do Whatever He Wants - Yahoo Entertainment
The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for defying a subpoena issued by the Jan. 6 Select Committee.
The vote fell largely along party lines, with every Democrat who voted approving the resolution, and all but a handful of Republicans voting against it.
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“Mr. Bannon stands alone in his defiance, and we will not stand for it,” Jan. 6 Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said during the debate preceding the vote. “We will not allow anyone to derail our work, because our work is too important: helping ensure that the future of American democracy is strong and secure.”
“He must have been aware of, and may well have been involved in, the planning of everything that played out on that day,” added Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). “The American people deserve to know what he knew and what he did.”
Cheney was one of only nine Republicans to vote in favor of the measure. Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Peter Meijer (R-Mich.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), and Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) were the others. House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) earlier this week instructed the party to vote against the measure, writing in a letter sent to representatives that Congress “does not have enumerated constitutional powers to conduct investigations or issue subpoenas outside of that scope.”
Cheney and Kinzinger are the only two Republicans who serve on the Jan. 6 Select Committee, which voted on Tuesday night to send the criminal-contempt resolution to the House. The committee has been investigating the events leading up to and surrounding the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, and issued subpoenas to several figures with ties to Trump. Bannon was the only one to defy the committee’s request for testimony, however, arguing that he was protected by executive privilege (Bannon has not been employed by the federal government since 2017).
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