Oversight Rep. Nancy Mace will NOT visit Jan. 6 inmates with Republican lawmakers

Nancy Mace will not be joining some of her fellow Republicans who are planning a prison tour for those serving time for their role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed Thursday that his office is working with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to arrange a trip to speak with those persecuted by the riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. .

Comer, Greene, and Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins wrote a letter to Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser requesting information and documentation about the “January 6 detainees,” as well as demanding steps to allow a delegation from the Congress visit the jail and speak with inmates and staff. .

“I will not join them,” Mace, who sits on the Oversight panel, said in an interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning.

He said that “members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter” should be treated the same as the rioters who participated in the attack on the Capitol.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (left) is leading efforts with Supervisory Chairman James Comer (right) to lead a delegation to interview prisoners and employees

Rioters from the attack more than two years ago are still being held in a DC jail

Greene has previously visited the jail where those accused of crimes related to the attack are being held and is now leading the effort to have a full congressional delegation visit them.

Mace turned down Fox News host Tucker Carlson, framing the 40,000+ hours of footage from that day as most people peacefully ‘walked through’ the Capitol.

“There was violence that day, there’s no denying it,” Mace said, adding that he wishes House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had released the footage to various media outlets, not just Fox.

However, he also pointed to the hypocrisy in the handling of the rioters in the January 6 attack compared to other, more left-leaning groups.

‘It was a dark day in our history. But so was the summer of 2020,’ Mace continued, lamenting: ‘We saw very few arrests when there were attacks by an organization, members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter.’

“I had my house spray painted two summers ago, and no one has ever been held accountable for it,” he said.

“So we need to make sure that if there’s going to be political violence in this country, regardless of your political affiliation, everyone is treated and should be treated the same.”

Mace said those in groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter should be treated the same as the January 6 rioters. Pictured: Tucker Carlson broadcast new footage from January 6, 2021 after receiving more than 40,000 hours of surveillance video from that day.

Mace said he wants to make sure anyone in jail gets help from Congress if they say their civil rights have been violated.

‘I have done a lot of civil rights work over the years as a state legislator and as a member of Congress. In fact, the first bill I introduced or helped work on my first year was with Hakeem Jeffries on a civil rights law,” he explained.

“I would tell you that anyone who is in solitary confinement or in jail, regardless of their political affiliation, if they feel their civil rights have been violated, then we as members of Congress should help them,” he said. “And this is something I’ve worked on a lot over the years and something I respect.”

‘I was the ranking member on the Civil Rights Committee in supervision with Jamie Raskin last year. That is something that should matter to all of us, the constitutional rights of the citizens of this country.’