Oversight Rep. Nancy Mace will NOT visit January 6 prisoners with GOP lawmakers

Nancy Mace will not be joining some of her GOP colleagues planning to make a prison visit to those serving jail time for their role in the January 6 Capitol attack.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed Thursday that his office is working with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene to organize a trip to speak with those persecuted for rioting at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Comer, Greene and Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins wrote a letter to Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requested information and documentation on ‘January 6 detainees’, as well as demanding steps toward allowing a congressional delegation to visit the jail and speak with inmates and employees.

‘I’m not joining them,’ said Mace, who serves on the Oversight panel, in an interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning.

She said that ‘members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter’ should be treated the same as the rioters who were involved in the Capitol attack. 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (left) is leading efforts with Oversight 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 at a jail in D.C.

Greene has already previously toured the jail where those charged with crimes relating to the attack are being held and is now leading the effort for a full congressional delegation to visit.

Mace pushed back against Fox News host Tucker Carlson framing the more than 40,000 hours of footage from that day as mostly people peacefully ‘touring’ the Capitol.

‘There was violence on that day – you cannot deny that,’ Mace said, adding that she wishes House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would have turned over the footage to multiple media outlets, and not just Fox.

She did, however, also point out the hypocrisy in the handling of rioters on the January 6 attack versus those with other more left-leaning groups.

‘It was a dark day in our history. But so too was the summer of 2020,’ Mace continued and lamented: ‘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’s been held to account for that,’ she said.

‘And so we have got to make sure – if there’s going to be political violence in this country, no matter your political affiliation, everybody is treated and should be treated the same way.’

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

Mace said that she wants to make sure that anyone in jail receives help from Congress if they claim that their civil rights have been violated.

‘I have done a lot of civil rights work over the years as a state lawmaker and as a member of Congress. In fact, the very first bill I ever filed or helped work on in my freshman year was with Hakeem Jeffries on a civil rights piece of legislation,’ she explained.

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

‘I was the ranking member on the Civil Rights Committee on oversight with Jamie Raskin last year. That’s something that we should all care about, the constitutional rights of citizens of this country.’