Two House GOP leaders have officially called on Attorney General William Barr to determine whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke federal law when she ripped up President Trump's State of the Union speech earlier this year. Immediately following the State of the Union, some conservative figures charged that Pelosi may have broken the law by ripping up her copy of Trump's speech. Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Pelosi, pointed out that the lawmakers' letter to Barr "embarrassingly" lists the wrong year of the State the Union. And he referenced a PolitiFact check that rated the claim of Pelosi violating the law as "pants on fire!" The fact-checkers found that a printout of a speech isn't an official record and Pelosi could do what she pleased with the papers.

Source: Fox News September 03, 2020 20:27 UTC