GOP Rep. Liz Cheney's work on the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection may threaten her political future. 'She knows what she's getting into, and she did what she thought was right,' a fellow committee member said.
Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney serves as vice chair of the House select committee investigating January 6. She will give an opening statement at the primetime hearing Thursday laying out the panel's initial findings.
Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, a former constitutional law professor who was preparing his remarks to certify the 2020 election results, saw texts about the threat and walked over to Cheney on the House floor. She was later a top aide at the State Department during the Bush administration, focusing on promoting democracy in the Middle East.
"She certainly saw her father and her mother ... come under attack plenty of times for doing what I'm sure she thought was the right thing, and so I think that makes it kind of easy," Comstock told NPR. "I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative principle is reverence to the rule of law," she said.
He says their ability to laugh about their different political backgrounds made them fast friends:"I remember the very first time she took me to her office and I walked in, and there was this huge Soviet-sized portrait of Dick Cheney up on the wall. And I said, 'Liz, I've got one of those in my office too!' You know, and she started cracking up."The former president traveled to Wyoming last month and held a rally with Cheney's GOP primary opponent Harriet Hageman.
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