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To: Senate Leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell
Censure the GOP Senate leaders of the January 6, 2021 failed coup attempt
This petition calls on Senate Leaders Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to censure U.S. Senate Republican members Josh Hawley (MO), Ted Cruz (TX), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Mike Braun (IN), Steve Daines (MT), Ron Johnson (WI), John Kennedy (LA), James Lankford (OK), Bill Hagerty (TN), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Roger Marshall (KS), and Tommie Tuberville (AL) for their incitement and support of the violent insurrection that took place on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC via their unconstitutional desire to litigate the results of the 2020 presidential election. A censure of these Senate members should be accompanied by stripping these members of their committee assignments for the duration of the 117th United States Congress.
Why is this important?
Our Constitution spells out in great detail the role of the Congress in the Electoral College system. Their role is to certify and count the Electoral College votes, not to litigate the results of the election. Republican Senate members Hawley, Cruz, Blackburn, Braun, Daines, Johnson, Kennedy, Lankford, Hagerty, Lummis, Marshall, and Tuberville desire to take on an unconstitutional role in this process purposefully sowed doubt in the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. Through their actions these members fan the flames of conspiracies regarding the election results in a further attempt to cast doubt on the integrity of the process all while claiming widespread fraud without providing any evidence to support such claims. Their actions were reckless, inciting the violent insurrection witnessed by millions around the world. The United States is a beacon to the world on how a democracy and a peaceful transfer of power should work. On January 6, 2021 that beacon was dimmed, almost extinguished, to due the reckless actions of these Republican members of the Senate, thus a censure and stripping of committee assignments is warranted to prevent such seditious acts from occurring in the future.