Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Senate Democrats must complete the work of the Jan. 6 committee
select committee has wrapped up its comprehensive investigation into former president Donald Trump’s culpability for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. But there are gaps to fill regarding other government actors — and Senate Democrats are well positioned to take up the task.Certainly, no one needs the Senate to revisit Trump’s lies about the 2020 election or his schemes to devise phony electors. These matters now rest in the capable hands of special counsel Jack Smith.
In a similar vein, the House select committee found that the Defense Department did not respond in a timely fashion to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, forcing then-commanding general of the D.C. National Guard William Walker to contemplate breaking the chain of command to send his guardsmen to protect the building, which would have been a clear violation of law.
This problem was emblematic of the Trump administration’s widespread abuse of placing “acting” officials in place of appropriately confirmed appointees. While the Federal Vacancies Reform Act designates a secretary’s top assistant as the “default” person to fill an opening, the 1998 act also allows the president to install someone from. Taken to its logical extreme, the president could, for example, install an assistant transportation secretary as the acting defense secretary.
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