House Republicans, led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, are planning to visit Jan. 6 defendants being held at the Washington, D.C. jail.
"Last night I finally got into the deplorable jail, the D.C. jail where these people are being held for months on end in conditions like I’ve never seen in my life," Green said."It’s beyond anything I’ve ever seen and every American in this country should be outraged at what’s happening. I don’t care how you vote."
FILE: House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pauses for questions in the House Rules Committee as he advances a GOP effort to disapprove of action by the District of Columbia Council on a local voting rights act and a criminal code revision, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2023.
That same week, the U.S. Marshals Service completed an inspection of the jail complex where 30 Jan. 6 defendants were being held. The Marshals’ inspection determined the defendants were being held in sufficient conditions. House Oversight ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., welcomed Congressional oversight of detainee treatment in the U.S. but accused his GOP colleagues of having"selective sympathy" for the Jan. 6 defendants.
"The treatment of detained individuals in facilities across the country is an important subject for Congressional oversight. That’s why last Congress Oversight Democrats pressed for answers on the deteriorating conditions at Rikers Island in New York, for example," Raskin said. "Our GOP colleagues’ sudden and selective sympathy for January 6 insurrectionists reflects their continuing effort to lionize the violent attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election."
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