As the Jan. 6 insurrection hearings continued on Capitol Hill this week, political news in Michigan followed along.
The U.S. House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot held its second and third hearings on Monday and Thursday, continuing to make its case that former President Donald Trump incited the riot by knowingly spreading false claims of widespread election fraud.
Michigan, a swing state that Trump narrowly lost, has been mentioned multiple times in the Jan. 6 hearings because of the election fraud claims that swirled about the state in 2020. The committee even entered a 2021 investigation by a state Senate committee that found no evidence of widespread fraud.
But the public learned this week the lawmaker who led that Michigan investigation, state Sen. Ed McBroom, was asked to testify before the Jan. 6 committee.
“Saying that I was surprised is an understatement,” McBroom, R-Vulcan, said Thursday on the Senate floor, because nothing in the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee’s report last year related to the Capitol attack.
McBroom said he answered some “preliminary questions” from the committee but declined to cooperate further because he felt committee members’ interest in him and the Michigan Senate report was “flagrant commandeering of our legislature and violative of federalism.”
“Michigan is a sovereign state whose legislature cannot simply be called to heel by the U.S. Congress,” McBroom said. The Jan. 6 committee ultimately rescinded their...
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