House Speaker Mike Johnson is forming a new panel to investigate the Democrat-led January 6 Committee amid allegations that members hid or destroyed evidence exonerating President Donald Trump
The original committee was led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). It was essentially hand-picked by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). At the time, she resorted to an unprecedented measure of refusing to allow the GOP minority to choose their own members for the panel, so then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) refused to participate at all.
Eventually, now-former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who had also turned against Trump, joined Cheney on the committee.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican from Georgia, will chair the upcoming select subcommittee, which will be part of the House Judiciary Committee.
