In the January 6 federal case, while the decision to give a hearing to Trump’s claims of absolute presidential immunity by the justices of the Supreme Court that Trump helped to shape will delay the case, there is still more than enough time for a trial if the justices resolve the case on the same timetable as they applied in the 14th Amendment case, where a decision came less than a month after oral argument.

"Why would the Republican leadership in the committee majority give a hearing and a platform to the witnesses today, specifically to Mr. Kennedy, a man who has recently claimed that COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," Plaskett continued.

Council’s public safety chair said Tuesday that she would give a hearing to Mayor Muriel Bowser’s amended version of the massive criminal code rewrite.

The bill failed, but “any time legislative committees give a hearing to anti-science legislation, they serve as vehicles for misinformation and disinformation,” Lakshmanan says.

Then in 2016, judicial appointments took on tremendous urgency when Justice Scalia died during a presidential campaign and Senate Republicans refused to give a hearing to Mr. Obama’s nominee to fill the vacancy, Judge Merrick B. Garland, who is now the Biden administration’s attorney general.