Perry was one of the most active Congressional cheerleaders in former President Donald J. Trump's efforts to cling to power after his 2020 election defeat. He refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee.
The U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6th, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald J. Trump has referred U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s refusal to comply with a subpoena to the House Ethics Committee for possible sanction.
Still, the recommendations have once again thrust Perry, just re-elected to a sixth term by voters in south central Pennsylvania, into the center of the ongoing public reckoning for Trump and those who worked with him in his lost cause to override the results of Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat to Joe Biden.Perry, who represents Dauphin, Cumberland and York counties in the House,
Last year, a report by the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee also portrayed Perry as one of the biggest Congressional cheerleaders in Trump’s effort to make the DOJ work for him. Perry also raised concerns about duplicate absentee ballots going out to more than 4,000 voters, even though Department of State officials had noted that — because of coding on the ballots — there was no way that the same voter could have two ballots counted; and he complained more generally about Gov. Tom Wolf’s persistent salesmanship of the state’s new vote-by-mail process.
Perry refused the House Select Committee’s requests for testimony, a point Select Committee Vice-Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, held in contrast during proceedings this year to the senior DOJ officials who have testified or granted voluntary interviews in which they recounted the details of Trump’s plan to weaponize the Justice Department in his schemes to stay in power.
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