Posted on 02/15/2021 5:54:52 AM PST by Red Badger
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton called Saturday for colleagues in Congress to censure former President Trump, saying it is the only way to keep him out of office after his latest acquittal.
Ms. Norton, the District’s nonvoting member of the U.S. House of Representatives, pushed for passage of a resolution censuring Mr. Trump soon after his second impeachment trial ended in the Senate.
“I strongly supported impeachment, conviction and disqualification of former President Trump who incited an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6,” Ms. Norton, a Democrat, said in a statement.
“However, since the Senate has acquitted him, I again call on Congress to pass my censure resolution,” Ms. Norton continued. “It is the only method available now to send a bipartisan, bicameral message to the country and the world that the United States is a nation of laws, and it’s the only avenue left to prevent Trump from holding public office again,” she congressional delegate added.
Ms. Norton originally introduced the resolution censuring Mr. Trump on Jan. 11, less than a week after mobs of people upset over him losing the latest presidential election stormed the U.S. Capitol.
The resolution was introduced the same day the House voted by a margin of 232-197 to impeach Mr. Trump for “high crimes and misdemeanors” for inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government.
Mr. Trump has since been sparred conviction in the Senate, however, where his latest impeachment trial – his second in roughly the span of a year — ended this weekend in a 57-43 vote and his acquittal.
A majority of the Senate voted to convict Mr. Trump, but not the two-thirds needed to find him guilty.
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fascinating...so the DC City government, whom she represents, looks like it may have somehow had a hand in the
Capitol Hill riot?!!
Of course they did.
Trump offered to send in the Nat Guard and they turned his offer down.....................
Mitch laid the groundwork for them.
“It is the only method available now to send a bipartisan, bicameral message to the country and the world that the United States is a nation of laws...”
Surprised she didn’t get struck by lightning after that whopper.
Me thinks the “esteemed” representative should read the 14th Amendment again. Don’t see how Congress can use the 14th to keep Trump out of office, but I wonder if asking people to donate money to bail out protesters attacking the Federal Court House COULD BE.
The more you look at the 6th, the more it resembles the 1932 Bonus Army riot in DC, which oddly enough...comes seven months prior to the Reichstag fire.
Any shred of respect that I may have been able to muster for McConnell in now lost forever.
Congress cannot censure private citizens. They are not criminal court.
The lice cut negress is an archaic voice from nowhere
Diversity is grand, intelligence not so much
Never trust a woman with Two last names.....especially a libtard.
They’re insane Jim.
Marriage is grand!
Divorce is a hundred grand!~~~~~~................................
John Wayne...Big Jake.
They’re worried they won’t be able to steal it next time.
Latinos are okay. It’s part of their Spanish culture, for at least a few centuries.
These johnny-come-lately double last namers are cultural appropriators..............
In your dreams, you racist hag.
IIRC, the US Capitol has a lightning protection system, a Faraday shield, installed for just such times...................
They won’t stop until Trump is executed. But they gotta get through me first.
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