House Ethics Committee Refuses To Say If Max Miller Will Be Investigated For Domestic Violence Allegations

"No comment" is the entire statement here, and that tells you most of what you need to know about how the House Ethics Committee operates. Not a denial, not a timeline, not even the bureaucratic non-answer we usually get when these things surface. Just silence. When a sitting member of Congress faces domestic violence allegations, the public is owed at least a process, even a slow and unsatisfying one. Instead we get a closed door.

Max Miller denies the allegations, and he's entitled to that defense and to due process before anyone declares him guilty of anything. But due process cuts both ways. It means an actual inquiry happens, not that the inquiry vanishes into a black box where nobody, reporters included, can even confirm whether one exists. If the committee has looked at this and found nothing, say so. If it's ongoing, say that too. The refusal to confirm or deny isn't discretion, it's evasion, and voters in Ohio's 7th District deserve better than a shrug from Washington.

This is where the institutional reflex to protect incumbents of both parties does real damage to public confidence. Ethics committees exist precisely because Congress can't be trusted to police itself informally. When the committee goes mute on something this serious, it hands ammunition to everyone who already believes Washington only investigates people it doesn't like. That's not a partisan complaint. It's just what happens when the people charged with accountability decide silence is easier than answers.