Tennessee U.S. Representatives Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) sponsored a resolution introduced on Tuesday that would rescind subpoenas that the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack sent to multiple aides of former President Donald Trump.
The resolution, H.Res.1305, would “rescind the subpoenas issued by the illegitimate January 6th Committee for Stephen K. Bannon, Mark Meadows, Daniel Scavino, Jr., and Peter K. Navarro; withdraw the recommendations that these individuals be found in contempt of Congress; and require the Speaker of the House to notify the Department of Justice of these actions.”
H.Res.1305 was filed by Missouri U.S. Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO-07).
Bannon, Trump’s former strategic adviser and host of War Room, and Navarro, Trump’s former trade adviser, were both sentenced to four months in prison in cases stemming from their contempt referrals by Congress.
Navarro is currently serving his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, which he began in March.
Bannon was ordered by a federal judge to report to prison by July 1 to serve his sentence for his 2022 conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the select committee.
Meadows and Scavino were not prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
Ogles, who was one of the original sponsors of the resolution, said, “The illegitimate J6 Committee was nothing more than an unbalanced Gestapo for Leftists attempting to destroy their political opposition.”
“The committee’s own rules required equal apportionment between Republican and Democratic members, as well as the appointment of 13 members, but Nancy Pelosi refused to allow it. Every subpoena, investigation, and testimony that came out of the committee is invalid, and every unjustly persecuted victim of this disgraceful partisan hitjob should be set free. Too many patriotic Americans have been targeted and it’s time for justice,” Ogles added.
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Photo “Andy Ogles” by Andy Ogles.
