Tiffany's tweets cited in report naming GOP reps who supported effort to overturn election [View all]
Social media posts from Wisconsin Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany are included in a report of more than 120 congressional Republicans who joined former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.
The report, released by Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, lists the public statements between Election Day and Jan. 31 of every Republican who voted to overturn the election results. The report doesn’t say what Lofgren believes should happen to these members, though does bring up the process for expulsion from Congress for potential violations of the 14th Amendment.
The 14th Amendment ensures that every person born in the United States is granted citizenship. It also allows for any elected official to be expelled for engaging in “insurrection or rebellion” against the country.
“Like former President Trump, any elected Member of Congress who aided and abetted the insurrection or incited the attack seriously threatened our democratic government,” Lofgren writes in her foreword. “They would have betrayed their oath of office and would be implicated in the same constitutional provision cited in the Article of Impeachment. That provision prohibits any person who has previously taken an oath as a member of Congress to support the Constitution but subsequently engaged in insurrection or rebellion from serving in Congress.”
Read more: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/tiffany-tweets-gop-supported-overturn-election/
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