A coalition of thousands of law students and lawyers has made Sens. Josh Hawley
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Rafael (Ted) Edward Cruz Gosar’s siblings push to have him removed from Congress following the Capitol riot. (R-Texas) to be banned for filing an appeal with the President-elect Joe Biden
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Hawley and Cruz, graduates of Yale and Harvard respectively, are increasingly being convicted after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to reverse the election.
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele specifically quoted a photo of Hawley making a gesture of support to a crowd in Washington earlier in the day.
Senators Hawley and Cruz directly sparked the January 6 uprising by repeating dangerous and baseless statements about the election and the lawless behavior of President Trump
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The nation and the world watched as rioters took over the halls and rooms that embody our democracy. But after the violence and terror of the day’s events, Senators Hawley and Cruz still chose to stand in the Chamber of the US Senate and persist in their unfounded objections to the will of the people. it adds.
Signatories include former Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Retired Judge H. Lee Sarokin, and Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration.
The petition was started by a group of seven Yale law students, including Daniel Ki, who told The Washington Post, “we thought it was important to say something.”
“We decided to ask other law students and members of the bar to join the call for immediate suspension against Sens. Hawley and Cruz, and we are inspired and encouraged by the overwhelming response,” Ki told the newspaper.
Separately, Hawley and Cruz have dealt with calls from their Democratic colleagues to step down, including Sens. Patty Murray
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