Absent a crime, the body charged with enforcing discipline on Congress is … Congress.
as part of its investigation into the attack. Referring these Republicans is an appropriate, even necessary, step by the committee — but a fruitless one, unfortunately. Absent a crime, the body that the Constitution charges with enforcing discipline on Congress is … Congress. And the way things are set up, it seems highly unlikely that McCarthy or any of his fellow scofflaws will face any serious consequences.
McCarthy is joined in this ignominy by Arizona’s Andy Biggs, Ohio’s Jim Jordan and Pennsylvania’s Scott Perry. According to the, each of these men had information that was crucial to the investigation into the attack on the Capitol. Jordan and Perry “were involved in discussions with White House officials about Vice President Pence’s role on January 6th as early as November 2020.” Biggs worked “to gather signatures from Arizona lawmakers endorsing fake Trump electors.
It seems highly unlikely that McCarthy or any of his fellow scofflaws will face any serious consequences.to approve subpoenas for the four members. The Republicans’ responses ranged from dismissal to utter disparagement of the committee’s work. “The Rules of the House of Representatives make clear that their willful noncompliance violates multiple standards of conduct and subjects them to discipline,” the executive summary reads.
Unfortunately, it is all too likely that their behavior will be left unpunished. “The ethics program in Congress is a joke, and there’s almost no chance that the ethics committee will do its job,”, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, told me in an email. “That committee has a bad track record for transparency, so it will probably also keep the public in the dark about how it is processing the referrals.
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