Overview
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced a 10 a.m. ET hearing on Jan. 6, 2026, to be chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson and to include personal accounts from members and tributes to first responders.
- The session will be informal because Republicans declined to participate, leaving Democrats unable to call an official hearing in the minority.
- Jeffries says the agenda will examine threats to free and fair elections and seek to expose election deniers holding senior posts in the executive branch.
- Democrats will scrutinize Trump’s first-day clemency for roughly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants, with Jeffries noting that several pardoned individuals have since been charged with new crimes.
- Reporting indicates Democrats are split on the political value of reviving the Jan. 6 focus ahead of the 2026 midterms.