This came up in comments on Nicholas’ post below: if Democrats were to break the “ethics truce” and launch complaints against Republicans in the GOP-controlled House Ethics Committee, would there be any chance of their complaints amounting to anything? Or would Republicans use their power to just dismiss the complaints, launch their own trumped-up complaints against Democrats, and do serious damage? I don’t really know anything about how the process works, so somebody please fill me in.
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