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Enforcing unprecedented subpoenas for GOP lawmakers turns on complex legal precedent going back centuries

  • Written by Jennifer Selin, Co-director, Washington Office, Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, Wayne State University
imageWill House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy attempt to defy subpoena?Drew Angerer/Getty Images

An attempt to force five Republican lawmakers into providing information to the House panel probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is unlikely to end with the subpoenas issued May 12, 2022.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and the four other Republican...

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