Jeffries taps top Trump resisters Swalwell, Crockett and Moskowitz for new Jan. 6 panel

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced Monday he is appointing Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) as the ranking member of Republicans' new Jan. 6 subcommittee.Why it matters: The choice of Swalwell, who has since the first Trump administration positioned himself as a vocal #Resistance figure, signifies that Democrats are taking a combative stance towards the panel.Jeffries also tapped Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), both vocal Trump critics, to serve on the subcommittee."Republicans will regret that they've decided to go down this road," Jeffries said at a press conference announcing his picks.State of play: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced plans to establish the panel as a House Judiciary subcommittee in January.Republicans are optimistic that, with allies now in charge at the Justice Department and FBI, they can dredge up information that contradicts the findings of the original Jan. 6 select committee.It will be chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who previously led the House Administration subcommittee investigating Jan. 6 in the last Congress.What they're saying: "Donald Trump is trying to do with Jan. 6 what many fringe groups have done with Sept. 11," Swalwell said at the press conference.Moskowitz predicted the panel will be "an absolute waste of taxpayer money and taxpayer time."House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who will serve as an ex officio member of the subcommittee, described Republican probes of Jan. 6 as an "Orwellian rewrite of what took place."The intrigue: Johnson has the ultimate say on who gets appointed to the panel and could, in theory, reject Jeffries' choices.That is what former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did to several of then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) picks for the Jan. 6 select committee in 2021, prompting McCarthy to pull all his nominees.A spokesperson for Johnson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and Jeffries declined to say whether Democrats would still participate in the panel if Johnson rejected any of his picks.

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