A group of Senate Democrats on Thursday called on the Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz over the role they played in the Jan 6. riot at the Capitol by objecting to the results of the presidential election.
In the complaint, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Tina Smith, D-Minn.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii; Tim Kaine, D-Va.; and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio; requested the committee to open a probe into whether the decision by Hawley, R-Mo., and Cruz, R-Texas, to object to the Electoral College results violated the chamber’s ethics rules.
“The Senate Ethics Committee should investigate their conduct to fully understand their role,” the senators wrote. “The actions of which we know demand an investigation and a determination whether disciplinary action is warranted. Until then, a cloud of uncertainty will hang over them and over this body.”
On Dec. 30, Hawley became the first senator to say he would object to the Electoral College result and he was later joined by Cruz and 10 other senators calling for an emergency audit of the results.
The senators said that Hawley and Cruz “lent legitimacy” to the cause of the mob that stormed the Capitol building in support of Donald Trump and said the Ethics Committee must determine if they failed to “[p]ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department” or engaged in “improper conduct reflecting on the Senate.”
“While it was within Senators’ rights to object to the electors, the conduct of Sens. Cruz and Hawley and potentially others, went beyond that,” they wrote. “Both senators announced their intention to object to the electors after baseless claims of election fraud, which upon information and belief they knew to be baseless, had led to threats of violence.”
Several other senators who planned to object to the certification of the results changed course following the siege on the Capitol but Hawley and Cruz persisted with their challenge, despite condemning the actions of the rioters.
Hawley issued a statement on Thursday accusing Democrats and President Joe Biden of attempting to “silence dissent.”
“This latest effort is a flagrant abuse of the Senate ethics process and a flagrant attempt to exact partisan revenge,” he said of the complaint. “Democrats appear intent on weaponizing every tool at their disposal — including pushing an unconstitutional impeachment process — to further divide the country. Missourians will not be canceled by these partisan attacks.”
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Strange how January 6th is always called a riot, which only happened once, but they call them peaceful demonstrations when they happen every night for 90 days straight to support Democrat socialist objectives, with broken glass and fires burning behind the CNN reporters? Just how stupid do they think we are? There are proper procedures to “Object” to electors which were followed to the legal letter by all concerned. What do Democrats fear might get revealed if challenged and investigated? Let’s just call this new witch hunt what it is,,,,FEAR by Democrats that they might have to face a Donald Trump Clone in the next election, without any of the personality flaws, which would crush them. Enter Cruz, Hawley and others who added legitimacy only to an investigation, with no intent for a riot.
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread, but Angels rush in where Devils dare to rule.
When’s the burning of conservatives at the stake??
Ethics is the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. How can immoral Democrats call for an investigation on a subject they are totally uneducated upon, with principles of good and evil they do not understand? They demand social equality, then put forth those useful idiots who they claim to be superior ideologists, but their ideas always fall below the line of equal success.
These communists will put on a great show for the television audience and the Pravda News Stations will eat it up!
I note the group of Democrats are made up of the usual mental pigmies.
Days like this, are why i would just LOVE TO SEE adnd like magic really exist, so ACTUAL ANCIENT Curses, could be placed on EVERY SINGLE ******* ONE OF these traitors.. Curses that literally see them turned to stone, or ones that cause them to get boils and cysts all over their body, EVERY TIME THEY LIE…
Obama, Shrillary, Biden and his pervert son walk free and these Commies want an ethics investigation into Hawley, Cruz ?
Wake up worthless Republican Establishment.
It’s just another taxpayers waste of money… they’ll appoint a special council pay them millions… that will funnel into the communist party headed by quid pro Joe and the “hoe” coffers…. Back to business as usual… nothing to see…. you can go back to work now being a slave to pay the outrageous taxes you will soon be paying… CHINA virus no longer a threat… the communist’s fix it … the orange man is gone.
I wonder, HOW MUCH longer, they’ll able to push the narrative of Orange man bad, its all his fault? WILL IT Be like obama, where even INTO HIS 2nd term, it was all STILL Bush’s fault?
we couldn’t possibly live long enough to see that end.
Strange…how can the Democrats do an Ethics Investigation? They have no knowledge of, or experience with, the concept of Ethics. It’s like expecting a Dolphin to investigate Death Valley.
They should be looking at their own partys ethics before condemning someone else’s ethics.
WHY? TO THEM, their own ethics are “just fine”..
ETHICS?… The communist party.. don’t need no stinking ethics!!
If the investigations are done by the FBI or Justice department maybe in a thousand
years someone may find a few records. Government agencies have failed America,
Democrats are now communist totalitarians drooling for a bit of flesh. Removing
Republican traitors in the next election primaries and focusing on Democrats
depredations may be step one. The future will unfold in many ways if true
patriots keep the faith and look to Donald Trump and continue to back him.
Hawley and Cruz will trash anyone attacking them in the Senate and are above
reproach. Remember good has nothing to do with evil, democrats and RINOS
are evil personified………..William
Actually, there should an ethics investigation into Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, as an educational tool to teach the rest in the Senate the proper way to ethically represent their constituents. To teach them all the Constitution, the Law of the Land, to teach the entire House what it means to have honor, integrity and courage! To teach them all what it means to actually be ethical!
A) the left’s incapable of learning
And B) Hawley and cruz’s ethics, are like poison to the left.