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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) played a leading role in the fifth public hearing for the House Select Committee on Thursday. Among the things that Kinzinger revealed was that a number of Republican members of Congress asked for preemptive pardons.

He explained that the only reason he knows that someone would ask for a pardon is if they committed a crime.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Thursday that the only reason that he knows that someone asks for a pardon is that they've done something wrong.

The Jan. 6 committee on Thursday revealed evidence that several Republicans had asked President Donald Trump's administration for pardons.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX) told Raw Story that after watching the first half of the fifth public hearing from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress that she's convinced there should be criminal charges against the former president.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted that the key piece of evidence for him was when Donald Trump ordered DOJ lawyers, "Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen."

Former Attorney General Bill Barr testified to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress that he had to investigate election fraud allegations earlier than normal to prove that there really was no fraud.

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that there was election fraud. Rudy Giuliani, who was serving as Trump's lawyer at the time, sought trials to shut down the elections based on false claims of fraud that the courts in over 60 cases found couldn't be validated, verified, or weren't unlawful at all.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, the Fox News network's Tucker Carlson attacked Sen. Jonn Cornyn (R-TX) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) over their support of the gun bill. Cornyn, however, doesn't buy the insults.

Calling them "apostates," Carlson sounded the alarm that Cornyn and McConnell are coming for people's guns. Over the weekend, Cornyn was booed by the Texas Republican Party members at his state's convention.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York gun law that had been on the books for a century, and opened up the possibility that states would be even more restricted in the measures they can take to regulate guns.

In response to the ruling, Senate Democrats expressed serious concerns about what the ruling will mean for the future of firearms safety.

"The View's" Sunny Hostin is fearful that the bill the U.S. Senators agreed on to better regulate guns will be challenged in court after the U.S. Supreme Court voted down a New York law that has been in place for over 100 years.

The way that the decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas led Hostin to believe that it ultimately expands the Second Amendment and will eliminate regulations across the country.

New York lost the Supreme Court case against a gun club that sued over their concealed-carry license requirement. The Court held that the state requiring a "proper cause" to conceal their weapon outside their home was unconstitutional.

But it was Justice Stephen Breyer's dissent that former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal called "ominous."

The Justice Department has filed fresh subpoenas for two people allegedly involved in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the Washington Post noted Wednesday afternoon.

Ahead of the fifth public hearing for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the plot that led up to it, FBI agents were at the home of Georgia lawyer Brad Carver and Thomas Lane, who lives in Virginia.

Former President Donald Trump spent much of this week complaining that he's not getting any time to defend himself in public hearings for the House Select Committee. Trump allies have been offered an opportunity to appear before the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks on Congress and attempt to overthrow the election. They've just been unwilling to do so.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, ahead of the fifth public hearing, former federal prosecutor and law professor Joyce White Vance nailed those Trump staffers refusing to speak to Congress cowards.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The bipartisan Senate group was finally able to agree on the text of a gun safety bill together and a vote was held on Wednesday ahead of the two-week break during the Independence Day holiday.

The bill passed 64 to 34 less than two hours after the final text was published. When asked why so many Republicans voted against the bill if it was bipartisan, Sen. John Cornyn told Raw Story it was because people were miffed they didn't have enough time to see the final text before voting on it.

In a court filing on Wednesday, the Justice Department asked Judge Amit Mehta to look at whether there is a conflict of interest over some of the cases of the Oath Keepers.

According to the filing, there could be conflict because multiple attorneys for the Oath Keepers have been funded by Sidney Powell's legal fund Defending the Republic.

The co-hosts of "The View" began their Wednesday show by discussing the shocking testimony revealed by witnesses in the fourth public hearing of the House Select Committee on Tuesday.

The hosts first couldn't quite understand how Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, a Republican, spoke so eloquently about his duty to the Constitution and to his state, and the horrors he and his family have faced from Trump supporters, but he'd still be willing to support the ex-president again.