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GOP demands investigation to harass liberal groups after Kirk shooting [1]
['Daily Kos Staff']
Date: 2025-09-12
A group of right-wing House Republicans on Thursday said they want Speaker Mike Johnson to form a new select committee to probe the "radical left," which they baselessly accuse of being responsible for activist Charlie Kirk's assassination on Sept. 10.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas and 22 House Republicans sent a letter to Johnson, as well as the GOP chairs of the House Oversight and the House Judiciary committees, proposing that the new panel focus on "the money, influence, and power behind the radical left’s assault on America and the rule of law.”
"In the wake of numerous attacks on our way of life, the destruction of the rule of law, and the murder of innocent Americans, prominent and unknown alike, we must take every step to follow the money and uncover the force behind the NGOs, donors, media, public officials, and all entities driving this coordinated attack," the lawmakers wrote, specifically referencing right-wing boogeyman George Soros and the Southern Poverty Law Center as groups they want to see probed.
The group—which includes some of the most extreme GOP lawmakers, such as Mary "Hitler was right on one thing" Miller of Illinois, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, and Lauren Boebert of Colorado—sent the letter before a suspect had been captured, and seemingly without any information on the shooter’s motivations, which are still not publicly known as of this article’s writing.
But that didn’t stop them from placing blame and calling for action in the best way they know how—the formation of a useless select committee that will waste taxpayer resources and not accomplish anything.
Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks at his group’s summit in Washington in 2019.
"Enough is enough,” the Republicans wrote. "We must follow the money to identify the perpetrators of the coordinated anti-American assaults being carried out against us and take all steps under the law necessary to stop them. The best option is a full, stand-alone committee with complete authority to elevate and investigate these matters. However, I respectfully request that we establish such a committee. It should be comprised of Members and staff with prosecutorial and/or law enforcement backgrounds, and we should grant it full subpoena powers and authority to deliver results."
Of course, political violence happens to members of both parties.
It was just over two months ago that a far-right extremist assassinated Democratic former Minnesota state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and critically wounded Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
But the committee these Republicans lawmakers are demanding doesn’t mention the prevalence of right-wing terrorists or the groups that radicalize those violent extremists.
House Republicans, for their part, love forming committees to help fuel conspiracy theories that rile up their gullible base.
Who can forget the Benghazi committee that spent millions of taxpayer dollars only to find that nothing could have saved the American diplomats who were killed at the American embassy in Libya in 2012?
Or that Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, spent years probing now-former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, only to come up with a big fat nothingburger? In fact, Comer is still wasting everyone’s time and money by investigating Biden, even though he is no longer in office.
And Republicans just announced they are launching their own committee to probe the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021—likely to help whitewash the abhorrent behavior of President Donald Trump and his supporters on that day.
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