Pelosi moves to block Trump allies from January 6 committee

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (Ashley Landis/AP)

The Speaker of the United States’ House of Representatives is rejecting two Republicans put forward by the House’s Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection, citing the “integrity” of the probe.

Nancy Pelosi said in a statement on Wednesday that she would not accept the appointments of Indiana representative Jim Banks, whom Mr McCarthy picked to be the top Republican on the panel, or Ohio representative Jim Jordan.