ABC reports, "The House select committee investigating
the Jan. 6 attack subpoenaed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican members of Congress on Thursday for testimony about events surrounding the Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
"McCarthy and the other members -- Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania -- had
rejected the committee's voluntary requests for cooperation in recent months."
The five Republicans are suspected of sedition in that they supported President Trump's Big Lie and that led to a coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021 whose purpose it was to overthrow our elected government.
That is a very serious charge, and, if one is innocent of the charge, it is presumed one would want to say so before the committee.
All five rejected the invitation to appear before the committee and explain their actions.
"Before we hold our hearings next month, we wished to provide members the opportunity to discuss these matters with the committee voluntarily," Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement regarding the subpoenas. "Regrettably, the individuals receiving subpoenas today have refused and we're forced to take this step to help ensure the committee uncovers facts concerning January 6th. We urge our colleagues to comply with the law, do their patriotic duty, and cooperate with our investigation as hundreds of other witnesses have done."
"We have a solemn responsibility to investigate fully the fact and circumstances of the violent attack on the United States Capitol and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power," Thompson's letter to McCarthy informing him of the subpoena.
The forum's Republicans will stay silent on these issues that involve their party. They steadfastly avoid talking about their own party, perhaps because they are incapable of defending their party.
The difficulties in defending guilty persons are insurmountable. All this is coming to a head just in time for the elections.
The Republican Party expects to win control of Congress in November.