Commentary: Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney understand the stakes of democracy
by Jill Lawrence, Los Angeles Times
Jun 24, 2022
3 minutes
There’s been deserved praise for the House Jan. 6 committee’s production values, yet the two leading players in these hearings are just as riveting: one descended from enslaved Black people, the other from a Puritan property owner in 1640 Massachusetts. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., each have centuries of wildly divergent family history in the United States, which makes them the most inspirational of partners.
Last fall I watched Cheney speak in Manchester, New Hampshire. She is a lawyer with a crisp delivery and the job she’s contemplated since she was an undergrad at Colorado
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