Schmitt's Hawk 'gotcha' didn't fly the way he and fellow Republicans hoped
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt attempted to use a congressional hearing to question former Special Counsel Jack Smith. The effort did not result in the political impact the senator and his allies had hoped for.
Tuesday was supposed to be a big day for Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, a little-known first-term junior senator whose main claim to fame thus far was the 25 lawsuits he filed against President Joe Biden’s administration in a span of 20 months while Missouri’s attorney general.But congressional hearings have long been a place not to do actual legislating but to make a name for oneself, and Schmitt was going to take his opportunity Tuesday, when he got to question former Special Counsel Jack Smith…
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