{"id":1630259,"date":"2022-09-02T00:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630259"},"modified":"2022-09-02T00:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:49:14","slug":"gop-pennsylvania-governor-candidate-doug-mastriano-sues-jan-6-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-pennsylvania-governor-candidate-doug-mastriano-sues-jan-6-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Pennsylvania Governor Candidate Doug Mastriano Sues Jan. 6 Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-pennsylvania-governor-candidate-doug-mastriano-sues-jan-6-panel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630259&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doug-mastriano\">Doug Mastriano<\/a>, the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, filed a lawsuit against the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday, seeking to block the panel from compelling him to sit for a deposition.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington. Attorneys for Mastriano, who is currently a senator in the Keystone State, argued that the Jan. 6 panel does not have the authority to conduct compelled depositions because it is unable to comply with the House Regulations for the Use of Deposition Authority (Deposition Regulations).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCentral to this issue is the fact that [the Jan. 6 committee] lacks a Ranking Minority Member or any members designated by the minority party,\u201d the filing reads.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit acknowledged that courts have previously ruled that,\u00a0despite\u00a0this deficiency, the Jan. 6 committee could still issue subpoenas. But it argued that Mastriano\u2019s case is different because \u201cno Court\u201d has ever been asked to rule on whether the Jan. 6 committee has the authority to conduct depositions, by examining whether it is in compliance with the Deposition Regulations, which require the ranking minority member to take certain actions.<\/p>\n<p>Defendants in the lawsuit are identified as the Jan. 6 committee itself, as well as each of its 13 members, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p> No \u2018Ranking Minority Member\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, the Jan. 6 committee \u201chas no members designated by the Republican Conference\u201d because Pelosi had, in appointing the 13 members to the panel in July 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/pelosi-republican-representation-on-jan-6-committee-rejected-over-previous-statements-and-actions_3914324.html\">rejected<\/a>\u00a0the proposed committee members nominated by House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Attorneys added: \u201cBecause no members of the minority conference were included in the panel, nobody was designated as Ranking Minority Member.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution that created the Jan. 6 committee, H.R. 503, which was passed in June 2021, did not explicitly grant Pelosi the authority to designate the Ranking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, filed a lawsuit against the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday, seeking to block the panel from compelling him to sit for a deposition. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington. Attorneys for Mastriano, who is currently a senator in the Keystone State, argued that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}