Controversy in the USA: the Republicans block the investigation into the assault on Congress

The controversy breaks out in New York: with a twist, the Republican Party of the United States managed to block the attempt by the Democrats to set up a commission of inquiry into the assault on Congress on January 6, structurally similar to the one launched after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.

Reason? The provision lacked a qualified majority in the Senate, which required the support of at least a dozen Republican senators. The democratic majority in the House of Representatives, which had promoted the establishment of the commission of inquiry on the initiative of the Speaker of the Chamber, Nancy Pelosi, is however determined to continue with an autonomous congressional investigation, which could involve the formation of an ad hoc commission called to investigate exclusively the episodes of violence that accompanied the riots of January 6, resulting from a demonstration in Washington in support of former President Donald Trump. The initiative of a bipartisan commission of inquiry has in fact sunk with the use of the Republicans to a procedure of formal obstruction (“filibuster”).

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Democratic deputy Jamie Raskin – formerly representative of the prosecution on the occasion of Trump’s second impeachment – has defined the use of obstruction procedures “a scandalous abuse of power aimed at hiding the truth about January 6”. Republicans are reluctant to endorse the establishment of an anti-terrorism commission that would have the authority to issue formal subpoenas, even to the address of former President Trump, who has always denied any responsibility for the assault on Congress of the January 6 last. In fact, a recent Yahoo News / Yougov poll shows that 73 percent of Republican voters who are convinced that it was not the pro-Trump protesters who marched in Washington that day, but alleged “agitators” who triggered the assault on Congress. of left”.