Jordan: Riot Panel’s Subpoena “Violates Constitution”

Bloomberg News reports:

Republican Representative Jim Jordan swatted back his subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol — demanding the panel first turn over information to him.

Jordan doesn’t refuse to comply but argues in a four-page letter to Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and the panel’s chairman, that subpoenaing a sitting member of Congress “violates core Constitutional principles” and “disregards House rules and precedent.”

Jordan, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, also writes that the committee has not answered his question about its “abusive tactics and pattern of due process violations.”

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