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3.52pm BST

House speaker Nancy Pelosi has named Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney as one of the members of the select committee investigating the 6 January insurrection.

The Democratic speaker made the announcement at a press conference this morning, saying, “We’re very honored and proud that she has agreed to serve on the committee.”

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi announces that GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, a vocal critic of former President Trump, will serve along with House Democrats on the select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection: “We’re very honored and proud she has agreed to serve on the committee” pic.twitter.com/mdg5y9wk4F

3.38pm BST

Sean Morales-Doyle, the acting director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, said the supreme court’s decision in Brnovich dealt a significant blow to the Voting Rights Act.

“Today the Supreme Court made it much harder to challenge discriminatory voting laws in court,” Morales-Doyle said in a statement provided by the Brennan Center.

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Source: The Guardian