Republican congresswoman comes up with most bizarre defense yet for Jan. 6

Move over, Rep. Andy Biggs. Stop vaping in that pregnant woman's face, Rep. Lauren Boebert. We've got a new candidate for weirdest Republican in the House, and she is on a roll.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland was summoned to the Capitol to be ranted at by House Republican Jim Jordan's Special All-Clown Revue, or what used to be known as the House Judiciary Committee before Republicans turned it into a dumping ground for congressional crackpots.

Whatever the original plan was, the hearing quickly devolved into the usual circus, with Garland on the receiving end of complaints about a "World Naked Bike Ride" and generally not being able to get a word in edgewise. But there was one Republican bent on making even those complaints look tame: a performatively furious Rep. Victoria Spartz, who took Garland to task over the Jan. 6 insurrection and resulting arrests.