Jan. 6 panel postpones hearing

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature Trump-era Justice Department officials.

The hearing had been set for Wednesday, but the committee on Tuesday morning said that it had been postponed. It did not give a reason or a new date for the hearing.

The next hearing is set to take place Thursday.

The witnesses Wednesday were to include Jeffrey Rosen, who was the acting attorney general at the time of the insurrection, as well as two other former top officials, Richard Donoghue and Steven A. Engel. Lawyers for all three men did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

They were expected to testify about a tense Jan. 3, 2021, meeting at the White House in which then-President Trump weighed whether to replace Rosen with a lower-ranking official, Jeffrey Clark, who had expressed a willingness to champion bogus claims of voting fraud. Trump abandoned the idea when multiple government lawyers threatened to resign.