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GOP Senator Calls For Investigation Of Jan 6 Committee

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March 26, 2025

Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) is calling for a formal investigation into the controversial House January 6 Select Committee, which was formed under questionable circumstances and has been accused of misconduct.

When then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) moved to form the committee in 2021, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy submitted his list of Republican representatives to be included. Pelosi defied decades of house precedent by refusing to allow Republicans to seat their own members, however, arguing that some of the names proposed by McCarthy would be under investigation for voting against certifying the 2020 election.

As a result, Pelosi appointed now former U.S. Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney as “Republican” members of the committee. Both Cheney and Kinzinger have since left congress and have become enthusiastic supporters of the Democratic Party.

Banks, along with current House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), was one of the two House Republicans who was denied a seat on the “bipartisan” committee by Pelosi. Now a senator, Banks is calling on Republican lawmakers to form their own committee aimed at investigating the conduct of Pelosi’s January 6 Committee.

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Cheney and Kinzinger, along with other committee members, received preemptive pardons from former President Biden during his final hours in the White House. President Trump has since argued that the pardons are irrelevant, however, pointing to recent reports that Biden used an autopen tool to sign documents, including the January 6 Committee pardons.

“For months the Democrats said that under an old Supreme Court case, taking a pardon is an indication of guilt,” Banks wrote in an X post. “Under that logic, by accepting pardons, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, and the other January 6th committee members have effectively confessed to engaging in criminal conduct.”

The Republican senator then called on his colleagues to honor campaign promises by launching a formal investigation of Pelosi’s partisan committee. “Now that we know that their pardons were illegitimately signed by autopen, rendering them legally invalid, an investigation into the actions of every single committee member should be launched immediately!” Banks concluded.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced back in January that the chamber will be opening a formal investigation into the January 6 Committee’s conduct.

“House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still more work to be done,” Johnson said in a statement. “We are establishing this Select Subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people.”

Details on the committee’s formation or which members will be sitting on it have not been released as of this report.

In addition to the deviation from House precedent, the partisan January 6 Committee has been accused of a wide range of misconduct.

In 2023, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) revealed that the committee had destroyed documents, text messages and other records. This was done despite orders from incoming House Speaker McCarthy to preserve all records relating to the investigation.

“As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,” Loudermilk said of committee members in an interview with Just The News last year. “But I think that’s going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to get. And we need to build not only this, to get the truth out to the American people, but see just how big this case potentially is for obstructing.”

The January 6 committee — which hired a Hollywood producer to spice up its primetime hearings — telegraphed numerous bits of misinformation to the American people. In one instance, the committee aired testimony from former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed that Trump attempted to grab the steering wheel of a secret service vehicle and drive back to the Capitol when the protests devolved into a riot. This claim has been thoroughly debunked by Secret Service agents.

The committee also cherry-picked video footage and failed to mention that police caused the riot by firing crowd control munitions. This footage, along with 14,000 additional hours, were hidden from the American people in favor of cherry-picked clips.