Daily News | Pa. Republicans’ roles in attempts to overturn 2020 election draws scrutiny in congressional, FBI probes
Pennsylvania Republicans’ efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results — in both their state and others — came under scrutiny Thursday in parallel probes by both congressional and federal criminal investigators.
When Perry was rebuffed, he pushed then President Donald Trump to oust his acting attorney general and replace him with a Philadelphia native, who was willing to embrace those claims. The officials testified that putting Clark, an environmental lawyer and then-acting head of the Justice Department’s civil division, in charge “may very well have spiraled us into a constitutional crisis.”
And also Thursday, another Pennsylvania congressman — U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly — was implicated by Sen. Ron Johnson , in an attempt to get false electors from Wisconsin and Michigan into the hands of Vice President Mike Pence as he arrived at the Capitol to certify Biden’s win. A Kelly spokesperson denied that, calling Johnson’s statements “patently false” and that the congressman “has no knowledge of the claims Mr. Johnson is making related to the 2020 election.
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