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The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack will consider prosecuting Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon after he defied its subpoena.
What next? The select committee will meet on Tuesday to decide whether to recommend the full House authorize a criminal referral for Bannon to the justice department, its chair said. The decision is expected to be unanimous.
It comes after the committee subpoenaed a top Trump justice department official, Jeffrey Clark. It seeks to understand how Trump tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden's election victory.
What did Peddy say? Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives," she can be heard saying on tape.
How did we get here? A new Texas law requires teachers who discuss widely debated and currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs" to examine the issues from diverse viewpoints without giving deference to any one perspective".
Texas governor Greg Abbott has said the law aims to abolish critical race theory in schools (an academic discipline not currently taught in US secondary schools).
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