Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) led a GOP-signed letter on Thursday asking Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and other House leaders for permission to form a new select committee tasked with investigating “radical left” groups that promote political violence.

The request came after the assassination of Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk , who was shot once in the neck on Wednesday, and before the apprehension of the suspected killer.

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