The recent revelation that Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 committee issued a subpoena based on blatant lies is just one more indication of that mob’s illegitimacy. The train of abuses includes stacking the committee with Trump-haters and belligerently biased members of Congress, removing Republicans from the committee who were appointed by Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, and issuing a bogus contempt citation of Steve Bannon, who was awaiting a judicial determination on former President Donald Trump’s claim of executive privilege.

But of all the creepy machinations of this gang of contemptible characters, the boneheaded issuance of a subpoena to former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik takes the cake.