Posted on 01/25/2021 7:14:08 AM PST by SJackson
Seven Democratic senators filed complaint against Hawley, Cruz after Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Hawley aired his grievances in two letters sent Monday morning. In one of the letters, Hawley, R-Mo., called for the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the seven Democrats who filed the complaint against him and Cruz, R-Texas, accusing the senators of filing "an unprecedently frivolous and improper ethics complaint... [w]ithout citing any relevant evidence or offering any good-faith argument."
Hawley on Jan. 6 joined a House member's objection to the Pennsylvania Electoral College votes, triggering two hours of debate in each chamber over the validity of the slate and votes on whether Congress should reject them. Cruz objected to Arizona's electors.
"The complaint against me does not suggest that my objection to Pennsylvania’s electoral votes was legally improper. No Senator could make such a suggestion with a straight face. Federal law expressly authorizes Senators to object that a State’s electoral votes were not 'regularly given,'" Hawley says in his letter to the Ethics Committee. "Democrats have repeatedly invoked this provision. Indeed, in every presidential election since 2000 that a Republican has won, Democrats have sought to object to electoral votes on that ground, regardless of whether any good-faith basis existed for such objections."
Hawley further defended his decision to object to Pennsylvania's electoral votes as having a "strong legal basis."
The Democrats who filed the ethics complaint against Cruz and Hawley were Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I; Tina Smith, D-Minn.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Maize Hirono, D-Hawaii, Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
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Josh will make a great President in 2028,,,,,,,,,,,,
F**k FOX!
That assumes Democrats have ethics......
Yes.
Fight fire with fire.
Never back down in the face of deranged far left terrorism from Dem Senators, BLM or ANTIFA.
He’s right. He merely exercised his power as a Senator to challenge electors, as is his right.
This is how its done boys and girls (and its). Take notes.
Good. Hawley had an excellent piece in the NY Post today. When I have time, I’ll post it.
Call ethics investigations into all the Democrats who have objected to electoral ballots in 2001, 2005 and 2017.
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