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Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) objected to the votes from North Carolina in addition to votes from South Carolina and Wisconsin.Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) objected to North Carolina's votes.Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) objected to Georgia's votes.Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) objected to Florida's votes.Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) objected to Alabama's votes.During the joint session on January 6, 2017, seven House Democrats tried to object to electoral votes from multiple states.Īccording to a C-SPAN recording of the joint session that took place four years ago, the following House Democrats made objections: In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won 304 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton's 227. history to be impeached twice.Īs proceedings were underway, claims were made about how Democrats conducted themselves at the joint session that certified Trump's victory four years ago.Īmericans are tired of the double standard. If approved, Trump would become the only president in U.S. On January 13, the House of Representatives, for the second time, began impeachment proceedings against Trump. The House approved a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, but Newsweek reported that Pence refused. The resolution cites the false claims Trump made about winning the election at the Stop the Steal rally that turned into the insurrection, in addition to Trump calling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2 to 'find' votes to overturn the results of the election. Newsweek reported that Democrats officially introduced their impeachment resolution in the House on January 11. Now, lawmakers are calling for Trump's removal from office for inciting the violence. Five people, including a Capitol police officer, died as a result of the insurrection ( Newsweek reported that a sixth man from Georgia who was arrested for allegedly participating in the insurrection committed suicide on Saturday).

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Members of Congress sheltered in place while rioters broke windows and made their way into lawmakers' offices. President Trump has spoken out against Representative Lewis in the past, tweeting that 'Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S.Tension surrounding the 2020 election came to a violent crescendo on January 6 when pro-President Donald Trump rioters breached the Capitol in protest of the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's 306 electoral votes. King would have been able to lead us to a different place and our country would have been different and the world community would have been different,' he said. King were still alive, Trump would have never been elected. Meeting him, working with him, and getting to know him-I think he would have taken the same position that I did.'īut Lewis suggested that if Dr. Lewis told The View that he 'knew father very, very well. 'Unlike some people, my father would try to meet with President-elect Trump,' she said in early 2017, 'because he recognizes that in order to move the agenda of justice, freedom, and equality forward, you can't just protest and resist. He also disagreed with Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Bernice King.

King in the 1960s, said on The View that King would have boycotted President Trump's inauguration ceremony. On Monday Morning, Georgia Representative John Lewis, a civil rights leader who marched with Dr. Waters wasn't the only member of Congress thinking about how Dr.

listening to what he has to say,' she said on MSNBC last week. 'I don't trust him, I don't appreciate him and I wouldn't waste my time. Waters has said she will skip the President's State of the Union speech later this month. And last week, she responded to Trump's alleged 'shithole' comments by writing that 'Congress has a constitutional responsibility to impeach him without delay.' Waters has long urged for President Trump's impeachment.ĭuring BET's 'Black Girls Rock!' awards ceremony in August, she told Trump that 'not only will we resist you, we will impeach you.' In November, she began an 'Impeach 45' chant at the Glamour Woman of the Year awards. from a dangerous man who has no respect for our Constitution & no concern for strengthening our democracy- Maxine Waters January 15, 2018 If MLK was alive today, he'd be marching not only for civil rights & protecting voting rights, but to urge Members of Congress to accept their responsibility to save the U.S.

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