GOP’s Perry Rebuffs Jan. 6 Panel as Probe Looks to Lawmakers
- Scott Perry tweets committee’s probe is ‘illegitimate’
- Pennsylvanian is first lawmaker publicly asked for questioning
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The first lawmaker publicly asked to meet with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol refused the request and called the panel “illegitimate.”
The snub by Republican Representative Scott Perry, an ally of former President Donald Trump, underscores the deepening partisan tensions over the direction of the committee’s investigation, and raises the possibility of new legal showdowns.