The U.S. presidential election is over, but the bitter divisions between the Democratic and Republican parties continue to be reflected in different ways, including legal opinion. In addition to former President Trump‘s impeachment, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Hawley have both been hit with ethics complaints from seven Democrats for challenging the election results in swing states in Congress. Hawley fired back in a letter sent Jan. 25 and called for an ethics investigation of those Democrats.
Although Hawley, Cruz and then-President Trump all condemned the Jan. 6 violence. But seven Democratic lawmakers launched an ethics complaint against Hawley and Cruz saying that Cruz and Hawley supported the riot. Hawley blasted the seven Democratic senators for their allegations, saying their complaints were “clearly partisan,” and he urged the Senate Ethics Committee to conduct an ethics investigation of the Democrats.
In a letter, Hawley wrote: “What is most surprising is that the Democrats who filed the complaint against me are suggesting, without any evidence, that I or my staff may have conspired with the criminals who stormed the Capitol.” “In most jurisdictions, such statements constitute defamation in and of themselves, and if raised during debate, they would be a clear violation of Senate Rule XIX.2.”
Hawley specifically asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate whether the seven Democrats coordinated their actions with a handful of outside groups, the Democratic leadership, including the Biden administration, and whether they made contact with lobbyists and businesses that claimed they would no longer donate to Hawley or Cruz.
Also last week, when Sen. Cruz criticized Joe Biden’s decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord as one that would hurt American jobs, a Hollywood actor, Seth Rogen, tweeted, “Get out of my way, you fascist,” according to Breitbart News.
Cruz got into a Twitter war with him over it, to which he replied that because of the left’s love of a Culture of sequestration, censorship and forced corporate closures, those people have become true fascists. Anyone who disagrees, they try to shut down. In left-leaning Hollywood, conservatives can’t speak freely.
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