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   https://nypost.com/2021/01/25/sen-hawley-files-ethics-complaint-against-   
   seven-democrats/   
      
   Sen. Josh Hawley on Monday filed an ethics complaint against the seven   
   Democrats who last week filed one against him and fellow Republican Sen.   
   Ted Cruz seeking their “expulsion or censure” for objecting to the   
   presidential election results.   
      
   The Missouri Republican — who in a Post op-ed Sunday decried the muzzling   
   of viewpoints through “cancel culture” — objected to certification of   
   President Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania shortly after a mob of   
   supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.   
      
   Hawley wrote to the Senate Ethics Committee that his seven accusers “filed   
   an unprecedently frivolous and improper ethics complaint against me and   
   Senator Cruz.”   
      
   He wrote that his objection was “a lawful process” invoked previously by   
   Democrats and that “my objection rested on far more solid ground than the   
   electoral college objections submitted by Democrat Members of Congress   
   after the 2000, 2004 and 2016 elections.”   
      
   Hawley wrote that “[b]y knowingly submitting a frivolous complaint to   
   accomplish impermissible partisan purposes, these Senators have engaged in   
   improper conduct that may reflect upon the Senate. The Committee should   
   discipline these Members to ensure that the Senate’s ethics process is not   
   weaponized for rank partisan purposes.”   
      
   Cruz (R-Texas) objected to Arizona’s electors to Biden before the Capitol   
   break-in that resulted in the deaths of four Trump supporters and one   
   police officer. When debate resumed, Hawley objected to Pennsylvania’s   
   electors for Biden, forcing a debate.   
      
   The Democratic senators last week requested an ethics probe of Hawley and   
   Cruz, saying they “lent legitimacy to President Trump’s false statements   
   about election fraud” and “continued to amplify the claims of fraud that   
   they likely knew to be baseless and that had led to violence earlier that   
   day.”   
      
   The Democrats wrote that “[b]y continuing to object to the electors after   
   the insurrection, Senators Cruz and Hawley lent legitimacy to the mob’s   
   cause.”   
      
   Hawley, 41, is a Stanford University and Yale Law School graduate and   
   former clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. He gave a fist   
   pump to a then-peaceful group of Trump supporters at the Capitol hours   
   before the building was ransacked.   
      
   Before throngs of Trump backers marched from near the White House to the   
   Capitol, Hawley told The Post that he did not believe his objection would   
   overturn the election results — as Trump had insisted was possible.   
      
   “I think there’s no votes for that, I mean, at all,” Hawley told The Post,   
   saying he instead wanted to force a debate on alleged election   
   irregularities.   
      
   The ethics complaint against Cruz and Hawley has divided Democrats. Sen.   
   Dianne Feinstein of California last week told a reporter, “I think the   
   Senate is a place of freedom, and people come here to speak their piece.”   
      
   The Cruz-led Arizona election objection was premised on a federal court-   
   ordered extension of a voter registration deadline. Biden won Arizona by   
   about 10,000 votes. Hawley’s Pennsylvania objection focused prominently on   
   a state court’s ruling that mail-in ballots could arrive days after   
   Election Day. Biden won there by about 82,000 votes.   
      
   Both objections were soundly defeated.   
      
   Hawley wrote in his ethics complaint that the seven Democrats’ complaint   
   linking him to the rioters “would constitute defamation per se” in “most   
   jurisdictions.”   
      
   Democrats accusing Hawley and Cruz of misconduct are Sens. Richard   
   Blumenthal of Connecticut, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii,   
   Tim Kaine of Virginia, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Sheldon Whitehouse of   
   Rhode Island and Ron Wyden of Oregon.   
      
   Hawley also sent a letter to his accusers Monday, writing, “In light of   
   the shameful abuse of the ethics process you have deliberately engaged in,   
   I have considered whether I should call for you to resign or be expelled   
   from the Senate. But I continue to believe in the First Amendment, which   
   the US Supreme Court has repeatedly said protects even ‘offensive’ and   
   malicious speech, such as yours.”   
      
      
      
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