Liz Cheney Accepts Appointment To Pelosi’s January 6th Committee, Dares McCarthy To Strip Assignments

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) accepted Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) invitation to serve on the Democrats partisan January 6th “select committee,” daring Republican Minority Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to follow through on his threat to strip Republicans who agreed to assist Democrats in the matter of their committee assignments.

Pelosi named Cheney to the panel on Thursday, following through on a promise to make the panel “bipartisan,” despite the distinctly partisan nature of a Democrat-run select committee. Pelosi agreed to the committee following a Senate vote that ended an effort to create a Congressional select committee, similar to the one that investigated the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, designed to probe how supporters of President Donald Trump were able to breach the United States Capitol and make it within feet of elected officials.