Capitol Riot Commission's Future Looks Bleak as Republicans, Democrats Disagree on Scope
On 4/22/21 at 1:34 PM EDT
More than 100 days after a violent siege at the U.S. Capitol that was meant to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden's election, Congress continues to mull whether it will create a 9/11 Commission-style independent body to study what happened on January 6.
Experts and government watchdogs say that a 1/6 Commission is necessary to set a definitive record and counter disinformation about the Capitol insurrection, but it could be a tall hurdle to get enough Republicans on board with creating one.
"The further we've gotten from it, the more both sides have moved into their own narratives on what 1/6 was about," Laurel Harbridge-Yong, a political science professor at Northwestern University whose research focuses on partisan conflict, told