There is a new effort led by House Republicans to revoke subpoenas sent by a House Select Committee on Justice for the Debate on January 6 to key aides to former President Trump.
Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Eric Burleson (R-MO) introduced a resolution on Tuesday to revoke the subpoenas sent by the now-disbanded committee to Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino.
It also rescinds contempt resolutions filed against individuals who ignored these subpoenas.
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The new House Republican-led resolution aims to quash subpoenas for former Trump aides Steve Bannon (left), Peter Navarro (centre), Mark Meadows (right) and Dan Scavino (not pictured). (Getty Images)
“The committee was used as a political weapon focused solely on bringing down Trump and his advisors by intentionally manipulating the facts and silencing the minority party,” Burleson said in X. “The subpoenas issued by the unlawful committee to Messrs. Bannon, Navarro, Scavino and Meadows are insufficient and should be set aside, and the contempt charges based on those subpoenas should also be dropped.”
“Time is of the essence. Speaker Johnson must bring this resolution to the Floor for a vote immediately!” Massie wrote from the podium.
Fox News Digital reached out to the committee’s former chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, for comment on the resolution. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office declined to comment.
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The four received subpoenas from the now-disbanded House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 riot. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
As of Wednesday, the Republican bill had 22 co-sponsors in addition to the three senators who supported it.
Mr. Bannon, a former strategic adviser to Mr. Trump, and Mr. Navarro, a former trade adviser, were both sentenced to four months in prison in cases arising from contempt charges filed by Congress.
The Justice Department did not indict Meadows or Scavino.
Pelosi created the task force in mid-2021 in response to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, when her supporters stormed the building to protest her election loss to President Biden.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the committee on January 6th. (Drew Ungerer/Getty Images)
An initial vote to set up a 9/11-style commission to investigate the riots passed the House with the support of 35 Republicans and all Democrats but died in the Senate. The House then voted to set up a select committee with the support of only two Republicans, giving full appointment power to Pelosi in “consultation” with Republicans.
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Republican critics of the committee have used the dispute, including Pelosi’s rejection of two pro-Trump Republicans nominated by then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), as evidence that the committee is a partisan operation.
One of those allies is Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who is one of Burleson’s co-sponsors of the resolution.
