The fallout from the white supremacist terrorist attack on the Senate continues.  By now unless you have been living on Mars for a week you’ve seen the shocking images, watched the news and/or read on line about the assault on our nation’s capital  on 1/6/21.

All major news sources have chronicled the events that resulted in the deaths of five people including two Capitol Police officers who would still be alive were it not for this insurrection.  There is enough blame to go around and too many people deserving of it.  At the top, of course is the inciter-in-chief Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States.  But next in line (ignore for the moment McConnell, Graham, Fox News and other day-one Trump enablers) are two Senators:  Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX).  Read about the role these fascists played in the attack on Democracy here and here.

Hawley and Cruz have defiantly withstood public condemnation, the outrage (some of it fake) by their peers, and the censure of supporters, mentors and donors.  Their luck may have run out though.  A group of law school students collected 4,000 signatures within 48 hours of students, faculty and alumni to bar Hawley and Cruz from practicing law.  Forever.  Read about the petition here,and here.

I agree.

Hawley and Cruz took this Oath of Office for the Senate:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

Hawley and Cruz violated this oath. They must be held accountable for inciting a failed coup which far from supporting the Constitution attempted to circumvent it.  They did not defend against domestic enemies, they allied themselves with said enemies.  They embraced and furthered a false narrative of election fraud that fueled a terrorist attack.  Their motive (political gain) is irrelevant. Hawley, Cruz and any one else who think they can act with impunity to topple our democracy must be shown the flaw in their reasoning.  The error of their ways.  They must be made an example of so that future Hawleys and Cruzs think twice about betraying the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution.   Disbarment should be just the beginning of what they reap from the seeds of sedition they sewed.