When Heaphy stepped away from his position as UVA general counsel to lead the investigation, he found no shortage of “all-stars” willing to join his team of investigators. “She gave up her family’s political dynasty to do the right thing, and that really set the tone for the rest of the course.”
“She was very candid in the way she spoke to us, but there was also such gravitas,” Baltzegar said. Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, came to UVA in March as a professor of practice with the UVA Center for Politics. Cheney, who subsequently lost her House seat in a Republican primary in April 2022, served as vice chair of the committee. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans who sat on the congressional committee investigating the attack. The first night of the course featured former Wyoming U.S. The Karsh Center for Law and Democracy sponsored the course. He stepped away from his UVA job in 2021 to lead the House of Representatives’ investigation into the attack on the Capitol.
The class was organized and co-taught by UVA Law professor Payvand Ahdout, who studies separation of powers issues, and Timothy Heaphy, a 1991 School of Law graduate, former U.S.
