Republican lawmakers who voted to confirm Joe Biden’s presidential victory, even after a mob broke into the Capitol, are being criticized by critics in their home districts demanding their resignation or expulsion.
Protesters, newspaper editors and Democrats at the local level urged lawmakers to resign or have their colleagues kick them out. The House and Senate may remove members by a two-thirds vote or by a majority reprimand or reprimand.
Rep Madison Cawthorn ‘should be held accountable for his rebellious behavior and for the consequences of the behavior,’ a group of Democratic officials wrote in a letter asking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be the first-year student in North -Carolina who took his oath. on January 3rd.
Cawthorn said he has a constitutional duty to vote against Biden. He condemned the violence in Wednesday’s attack, but compared it to last summer’s protest action over police brutality. Those protests never violated a government building during official affairs.
A Capitol police officer was killed and an officer shot dead a woman in the crowd. Three other people are dying from medical emergencies in the chaos, which has forced lawmakers and staff members to hide while the rioters roam the halls of one of America’s most sacred buildings.
Pelosi and other Democratic leaders in Congress are urging President Donald Trump to be prosecuted for encouraging the uprising and refusing to act to stop the violence. But they were silent on whether lawmakers should punish the false allegations of voter fraud that led to the protest.
Most previous evictions were for members who supported the Confederacy during the Civil War or to take bribes.
Saturday in St. Louis is protesting hundreds of people against Senator Josh Hawley, the first-term Republican from Missouri, who led efforts in the Senate to block Biden’s election. The protesters painted ‘RESIGN HAWLEY’ in large yellow letters in the middle of the street.
A caravan of about 40 cars surrounded Senator Ron Johnson’s office in Madison, Wisconsin, to thank him. Johnson initially supported Trump’s unfounded allegations of electoral fraud, but after the riot, he voted in favor of Biden’s victory. Johnson condemned the violence, but did not hold back allegations of voter fraud.
The editors of two of Wisconsin’s largest newspapers have called for Johnson to resign, along with editorials published across the country aimed at GOP politicians.
The Houston Chronicle, longtime critic of Senator Ted Cruz, said in an editorial that the Republican knows exactly what he is doing and what could happen if he goes to the Senate floor to contest the election results.
“The terrorists would not have been at the Capitol if you had not presented this absurd challenge for the 2020 outcome in the first place,” the newspaper wrote.
Cruz called the attack a despicable act of terrorism, but he is still campaigning for a commission to investigate the presidential election.
In Alabama, the Decatur Daily an appeal to local representative Mo Brooks to resign. The York Dispatch in Pennsylvania said Congressman Scott Perry ‘is a disgrace to Pennsylvania and our democracy’, and if he still believes Biden’s election is fraudulent, he should resign because it means his election was also fake. Perry condemned the Capitol violence.
The Danville Register & Bee in Virginia said his representative, Bob Good, should go because his words hit the matches that led to the devastating crowd. Good said his vote was protecting his constituents.
The intrusive Trump loyalists “confronted security personnel, and there were injuries and even deaths,” the newspaper’s editors wrote. “And you’re just as guilty as they are.”