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Political scientist Charles R. Hunt shares three elements of the ongoing house speaker kerfuffle, and how political science can help people understand them.
Maurice Clifton, 57, spent over two decades incarcerated for aiding and abetting the sale of crack cocaine under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which treats one gram of crack cocaine as 100 grams of powdered cocaine. After he left federal prison on Jan. 10, 2020, he now advocates for the passage of the EQUAL Act, a law that will treat the two substances equally and possibly free 7,000 people.
U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson will lead a congressional select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today. Thompson, who also chairs the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN today that he would consider calling former President Donald Trump and Republicans who communicated with him at the time of the insurrection to testify.
A minority of 35 Republicans, including U.S. Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, voted to filibuster consideration of an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection that left five dead, including one Capitol Police officer.Â
Mississippi House Rep. Michael Guest, who represents Mississippi’s third congressional district, was one of the just 35 Republicans in the U.S. House to vote in favor of a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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