{"id":48793,"date":"2022-05-27T14:17:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48793"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T21:17:40","slug":"mccarthy-questions-jan-6-panels-legitimacy-in-response-to-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48793","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy questions Jan. 6 panel\u2019s legitimacy in response to subpoena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) responded to a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack in a letter from his lawyer on Friday that questioned the panel\u2019s legitimacy and requested more information from the panel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll valid and lawfully issued subpoenas must be respected and honored. Unfortunately, the words and actions of the Select Committee and its members have made it clear that it is not exercising a valid or lawful use of Congress\u2019 subpoena power,\u201d McCarthy lawyer Elliot S. Berke said in an 11-page letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48794,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793\/revisions\/48794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}