House Speaker Mike Johnson, fresh from seeing the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago, has changed his hands-off views about the House Ethics Committee’s report on Matt Gaetz. (“The speaker is not involved in what happens in Ethics,” Johnson said just days ago. “Lots of important reasons for that.”) Now the Louisiana Republican doesn’t want to see the document released, insisting that it “would open a Pandora’s box.”
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Opinion The House speaker’s pathetic case for deep-sixing the Gaetz ethics report
Speaker Mike Johnson suddenly opposes releasing the report on Trump’s attorney general nominee.
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