The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has requested that Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania provide information about his involvement in unsuccessfully seeking to install former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general of the United States.
"We have received evidence from multiple witnesses that you had an important role in the efforts to install Mr. Clark as acting Attorney General," Chairman Bennie Thompson wrote in a letter, made public by the committee, to Perry.
"Mr. Clark has informed us that he plans to invoke his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination in anticipation of a deposition to be conducted by the Committee. When Mr. Clark decided to invoke his 5th Amendment rights, he understood that we planned to pose questions addressing his interactions with you, among a host of other topics," the letter continued.
Perry is the first sitting lawmaker that the panel has sought to question. NPR has reached out for comment, but Perry was not made available by publication time.
The panel is interested in Clark, the former Justice Department official, for his role in promoting baseless allegations of voter malfeasance in the 2020 election.
Clark rose to prominence in the wake of the 2020 presidential race, riding on a wave of baseless claims of election fraud against former President Donald Trump.
Clark had vowed to investigate these false claims of ballot tampering.
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