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In victory for Trump, Republicans block probe of U S

By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday derailed a bipartisan inquiry into the deadly assault on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump s supporters, despite a torrent of criticism the lawmakers were playing down the violence. Democrats and some moderate Republicans had called for a commission to probe the events up to and including Jan. 6, when hundreds of supporters of Trump, a Republican, stormed the Capitol, fighting with police, urging violence against lawmakers and delaying the formal certification of President Joe Biden s election victory. The violence left five people dead including a Capitol Police officer.

Breaking: GOP filibusters January 6 commission, with six Republicans voting yes

AP Photo/John Minchillo So obviously is this a case of the caucus putting the party’s interests over the country’s that a member of the caucus felt obliged to acknowledge it. Lisa Murkowski went on quite a tear before reporters last night: “To be making a decision for the short-term political gain at the expense of understanding and acknowledging what was in front of us on Jan. 6, I think we need to look at that critically. Is that really what this is about, one election cycle after another?” Murkowski said. She added: “Or are we going to acknowledge that as a country that is based on these principles of democracy that we hold so dear. And one of those is that we have free and fair elections… I kind of want that to endure beyond just one election cycle.”…

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