The #Republicans under #MikeJohnson have tapped Rep #BarryLoudermilk of Georgia [who literally gave a tour of the Capitol building to some insurgents the day before the #insurrection] to stand up their own special committee to uncover what the speaker calls the “full truth” of what happened. They’re planning a hearing this month.

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“It is implausible,” #DOJ attys wrote, to suggest installation of the plaque “would stop the alleged death threats they claim to have been receiving.” [what’s that got to do with it?]

The DOJ also said the plaque is required to include the names of “all law enforcement officers” involved in the response that day — some 3,600 people.🙄

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The #Trump #DOJ is seeking to have the case dismissed. #USAttorney #JeaninePirro & others argued #Congress “already has publicly recognized the service of law enforcement personnel” by approving the plaque & displaying it wouldn’t alleviate the problems they claim to face from their work. [huh?]

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“By refusing to follow the #law & honor officers as it is required to do, #Congress encourages this rewriting of #history,” said the claim by officers #HarryDunn & #DanielHodges. “It suggests that the officers are not worthy of being recognized, because Congress refuses to recognize them.”

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The 2022 resolution said the #US “owes its deepest gratitude to those officers,” & it set out instructions for an honorific plaque listing the names of officers “who responded to the violence that occurred.” It gave a one-year deadline for installation at the #Capitol.

This summer, two officers who fought the mob that day sued over the delay.

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Unlike the twin light beams that commemorated the #Sept11, 2001, attack or the stand-alone chairs at the #OklahomaCityBombing site #memorial, the failure to recognize #Jan6 has left a gap not only in #memory but in helping to stitch the country back together.

“That’s why you put up a plaque,” said Rep Mary Gay Scanlon, D-PA. “You respect the memory & the service of the people involved.”

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5 years ago, the jarring scene watched the world over was declared an “#insurrection” by the then-GOP leader of the #Senate, while the #House #GOP leader at the time called it his “saddest day” in #Congress. But those condemnations have faded.

#Trump calls it a “day of love.” And #MikeJohnson, who was among those lawmakers challenging the 2020 election results, is now House speaker.

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Visitors can pass through the #Capitol without any formal reminder of what happened that day, when a mob of #Trump supporters stormed the building trying to overturn the Republican’s 2020 reelection defeat to Democrat #JoeBiden. With memory left unchecked, it allows new narratives to swirl & revised histories to take hold.

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In Washington, a capital city lined with monuments to the nation’s #history, the plaque was intended to become a simple but permanent marker, situated near the Capitol’s west front, where some of the most #violent fighting took place as #insurgents breached the building.

But in its absence, the missing plaque makes way for something else entirely — a culture of forgetting.

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