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:
A very good friend and I are at opposing ends of the question of whether our democratic institutions will survive Trump’s presidency assuming that it is only one term. After the election, he took the optimistic view that however he got there, the democratic institutions upon which our nation was founded would survive his term. After all, it survived the civil war, Nixon’s impeachment, opposition to the civil rights movement, conflict over the Vietnam War and two costly (in lives lost) world wars. I hold the view that in two years Trump in an all-out assault on these institutions has damaged them irreparably. And we are only two years into his first term!