Roll Call Vote 117th Congress – 1st Session
Vote Summary
Question: Guilty or Not Guilty (Article of Impeachment Against Former President Donald John Trump)
Vote Number: 59
Vote Date: February 13, 2021, 03:39 PM
Required For Majority: 2/3 Vote
Result: Not Guilty
Measure Number: H.Res. 24 (A resolution impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.)
Measure Title: A resolution impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement today after voting against the conviction of former President Donald Trump:
“I said before this trial started that I believe the constitutional purpose for presidential impeachment is to remove a president from office, not to punish a person after they have left office. None of the arguments presented changed my view that this was an unconstitutional proceeding. Impeachment is not a tool that should be used to settle political scores against a private citizen.”
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
On Thursday:
Senator Hawley Press Office @SenHawleyPress
“You’re not going to get anything but condemnation from me for what happened with those criminals at the Capitol,” Hawley says on @FaulknerFocus. “But that doesn’t make this trial any more legitimate than it is, which is totally illegitimate. No basis in the Constitution.”
[….] 11:54 AM · Feb 11, 2021
Useless tool.
Some of the comments:
@YaleLawSch @abaesq @mobarnews @SenSchumer @LeaderMcConnell @HawleyMO is a seditionist who violated his oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Revoke, disbar, expel. And prosecute.
Hawley didn’t address those who invaded the Capitol. He didn’t say,“Friends, I’m making your arguments on the floor, but what you’re doing is wrong. You must leave.” Why didn’t he speak to the crowd? Did he not understand his own people? Or did he understand them all too well?
Your colleagues voted, it is constitutional. Unless you’re not into democracy that is.
Raising your fist in solidarity to the violent mob and sitting in the gallery w your feet up while your colleagues describe the murder and destruction they committed and your refusal to hold trump accountable seems to say you don’t condemn it
He not only does not condemn it, he supports it.
@HawleyMO what do you know about constitutional legitimacy, when you spent all your time in the Senate saying “no” and playing Candy Crush?
Not true–it’s completely constitutional…would make no sense for it to be okay for a president to incite an insurrection but be let of the hook because he did it in January As Rep Raskin said there is no January exception!
That argument was put to bed 56-44. You were there, in the minority, but the question is settled and no longer an excuse to acquit.
By “condemnation” does Josh mean that wishy-washy “hey guys, we need to stop the violence” tweet from January? Because the only thing Josh has really condemned since he tried to overturn the election was the loss of his book deal.
As a member of congress it is more unconstitutional to argue the unconstitutionality of the Congress taking on it constitutional duties. The vote was made. The trial is ongoing. The VERY LEAST you can is care. You just want to be right.
The Constitution grants the Senate the sole power to try impeachment.
The Constitution makes no exceptions to that power.
All means all.
Trump was impeached while in office.
The Senate is required to try it.
The Senate voted that it has Constitutional authority.
Basis confirmed.
Senator, John Quincy Adams, Founders, & your law professors disagree. Can your staff not help you balance your response? Only the Senate can hold Trump and future presidents accountable. To acquit weakens the Senate’s power in the future and it encourages others to ignore the law
This is not a symbol of condemnation.
“Profiles in Cowardice”, a 2022 book about the US Senators who stood with the cop-killing seditionists and turned their backs on America.
The question of Constitutionality is resolved. The only question before you now is… guilty or not. [….]
Great game of what-aboutism! Thumbs up buddy! Good job inciting violence and for feeling no remorse. You’re a winner!
Joshie trying to pin the trial on a faux procedural point so he can excuse his failure as a senator.
I’m just glad you’ve copped to only representing Republicans.
I guess you won’t need to vote then. Wouldn’t want you participating in anything unconstitutional so as to give it credibility.
We don’t need anything from you because you incited the insurrection. Uh-oh.
Here’s Hawley condemning the mob.
Just saying things doesn’t make them true.
“The election was stolen!”
“No basis in the Constitution”
One false statement after another from @SenHawleyPress
He is just scared of offending Trump. Even though he has the ability to rid himself and the Republicans of Trump by disqualifying him from ever holding office again. Will he do it… probably not. Trump already castrated him and other long ago.
That sentence is mushy.
…not going to get anything but condemnation from me for what happened with those criminals?…
But I haven’t heard him condemn the Big Lie. Instead he continued with it on January 6, objecting to another state’s electoral votes.
@HawleyMO #Gaslighting as usual. As if WE THE PEOPLE don’t know HE knows full well that the #ImpeachmentTrial is in fact #Consitutional. One might even say it is #totallyappropriate.
This is like interviewing Al-Qaeda for their thoughts on 9/11.
56 to 44 vote that it was constitutional. Articles filed on 1/13. Trump was holding office. McConnell delayed trial. Clearly, Missouri deserves better!
Clearly, Hawley sees himself fundamentally as a party functionary, not a member of the representative government.
You left out the part about needing to find your soul.
Making quite a name for yourself. Not gonna be pretty.
Co-conspirator
Excuse me but your opportunism is showing. (Missouri resident that does not support you.)
The Senate, as a body, has considered this. In its sole power, it has determined it *does* have Constitutional authority. In our system of government, that decision is binding on you. Your vote on guilt is required. Your oath of office & your impeachment oath both require it.
To Hawley Staffers: Remember how you felt on Jan 6th? How you ran & hid from the mob? It’s your time to tell Josh to vote Guilty for the person who sent them. If you didn’t run & hide like other staffers, then you knew they weren’t coming for you, which makes Josh guilty too.
There Is No Defense—Only Complicity
Insurectionist
Partisan coward
As much as you try you will never play with the big boys Joshie.
Social media team…what does Josh think would actually be cause for impeachment and conviction?? Because if this doesn’t do it, I cannot fathom a situation that does. We should just eliminate from the Constitution.
Apparently lying about a blow job is impeachable to these nut cases
That’s not what every constitutional lawyer says.
So, SenHawley is rejecting the decision of the Senate who litigated the Constitutionality of the jurisdiction question and bipartisanly voted that they do have jurisdiction. Hawley should therefore be removed from the Senate immediately.
Hawley’s legal position represents a fringe view that is contrary to history, contrary to precedent and roundly rejected by legal authorities from both parties. It is a sham. Josh was for the seditious mob on Jan. 6. He remains for the seditious mob today. He should be removed
Lindsay Wise @lindsaywise
Missouri Sen. @RoyBlunt: “I’m not a lawyer, but I didn’t see a case there that a prosecutor can make in court against the president.” 7:29 PM · Feb 10, 2021
The comments:
Two thoughts, @RoyBlunt. First, it’s an impeachment trial, not a trial in a court of law. Second, nobody can make you see what you don’t want to see — no matter how obvious the conclusion.
And with that kind of analysis Blunt is not going to be a lawyer, as he gets an F in criminal law, in tort law, in conspiracy law, in causation and on and on.
I guess being from the Show-Me state doesn’t mean one always comprehends what they are shown….
First, Blunt is wrong.
Second, Senator Blunt doesn’t seem to understand that the standard for impeachment is high crime and misdemeanor and that is different from a case one could make in a court of law. I expect nothing more from a Republican.
@RoyBlunt it isn’t a real trial. It’s a proceeding to show the president violated his oath of office and that if not for him, 7 people would still be alive and our democracy wouldn’t have been in danger.
Does that help?
Cuz if it was a real trial, it would be a death penalty capital case – this is also a trial about a cop killing.
I’m not a lawyer but I saw a compelling case. You are on the wrong side of history @RoyBlunt
I’m not a lawyer, either. But I’ve been a juror. I’d say the evidence presented so far is pretty compelling.
“How do we really know that Charlie Manson asked those kids to kill those people. I just don’t see the smoking gun.”
You mean against the guy behind the curtain surrounded by smoking guns? Beyond the spectacle of the mob behavior, the cause & effect need proving?
Not a lawyer, not a real senator, not a man…check, check, and check.
That’s maybe why he isn’t a lawyer?
Yep, you’re not a lawyer, Archie Bunker Roy
That’s why he’s not a lawyer
lmao
No, you are an eloquent coward, Senator
What a joke. Roy Blunt has 0 integrity. An actual jury would convict in about 30 minutes.
One day it is a real trial, the next day it isn’t a real trial.
This impeachment thing gets to be twisted any way these boot lickers want it to be.
Hey! @RoyBlunt
The president incited an assault on a joint session of congress to stop the certification of the election he lost. Your oath to protect the constitution from domestic enemies applies here.
[….]
Maybe if you were a lawyer, you could see a case against Ex-Pres Trump in court. But you are not, and this isn’t a case in court. You are a juror in an Impeachment trial. Stop talking and listen, really listen, and do the right thing. So help you God.
Mr. Blunt…you don’t want to see a case! You are a Trump boot licker and lack the courage to do the right thing. We see you and will vote you out in 2022.
Roy, this isn’t a court of law you waste of space and traitor.
What would it take for you to care about your oath to the Constitution, Roy Blunt? Because if these actions don’t do it, you are incapable of it and, therefore, unfit to serve. You and the whole sorry lot of your GQP colleagues are a disgrace to democracy.
MSNBC @MSNBC
.@GarrettHaake discusses Sen. Hawley’s conduct on the second day of fmr. President Trump’s impeachment trial: “He’s been sitting with his legs up on the seat in front of him, essentially reading non-related material.”
[….] 1:19 PM · Feb 10, 2021
Some of the responses:
Hawley told my colleague @JulieNBCNews that he was reading the trial briefs while in the gallery.
Can he comprehend? So far the signs are not good.
Not paying attention to the actual case he is supposed to be a juror for because he was too busy reading the briefs? Like reading Cliff Notes before a big test on Chaucer?
This is a jury trial, and Hawley is a member of the jury. Therefore, if he is not paying any attention to the case being presented, he should be removed.
I’m starting to hate Hawley as I much as I hate Cruz
Hawley knows the truth. He chooses to ignore it. That’s the worst part.
And he’s making it clear, despite the facts, he has zero worry about accountability.
It’s remarkable how our political system elevates and rewards people who have so much contempt for our system. People like Hawley think the system serves them.
Well, it always has.
And he made sure the press noticed, because it is all a big show to him
And on and on…
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Josh Hawley @HawleyMO
Today Democrats launched their unconstitutional impeachment trial while President Biden cancels thousands of working class jobs across this country. Americans deserve better 7:34 PM · Feb 9, 2021
Tell it to the microphones:
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Some of the responses:
Trump knew the capitol building was under attack, and that Pelosi, Schumer and hoyer were begging the governor of MD for assistance. He denied it for 2+ hours. According to us code, assisting in rebellion is insurrection.
[….] This game is called which human insecurity is Josh Hawley trying to exploit for political gain TODAY?
False: The impeachment is constitutional, that is why they voted in the Senate today. U were there so u know. President Biden’s initiatives will create millions of clean sustainable jobs.
We definitely deserve better than someone who showed a fist in solidarity with rioters.
Missourians deserve better
Really where? You GQP want to go back to horse & buggy days and coal furnaces. Americans want clean energy. Clean water air and less illness. Unfortunately, GQP have canceled science. Science has always been superior in the US but not for the GQP it’s a threat. Get over it.
There was a bite in this. Apparently 6 Republicans didn’t agree with you.
Sit down Senator Proud Boy
[….]You saluted neo-Nazis. But go on and try to talk about American values.[….]
You need to know that the 81 million of us that came out and defeated Donald Trump are going to come out and defeat you if you even *think* about running for the presidency.
You
Will
NEVER
Be
President.
Ever.
Josh, it was Mitch who refused to vote on impeachment before Trump left DC, so this is an extra cynical cup of hogwash.
We absolutely deserve better than whiny, phony sycophants like you who peddled the big lie encouraging violent insurrectionists to storm the capitol to execute the VP and members of Congress. There’s blood on your hands. Resign!
You’re Q
You’re guilty too
Where did you go to law school again? I think you should ask for a refund.
Senate votes trial constitutional. Go sit down.
I thought you were being silenced. Everywhere I look I end up reading one of your rants.
“Repeat the lie until it becomes true” eh, Josh? I am not an exceptionally intelligent man and I see through you. If your voters can’t, they must be exceptionally unintelligent.
I’ll explain this again. Your argument essentially is saying the Founders were idiots. That they didn’t see the loophole. They included two remedies, removal AND disqualification. They saw that there may need to be accountability trials of former officials.
I’m not for sure why you post Josh. You get very few positive replies. Maybe if you moved back to Missouri people might like you better
He’s so starved for attention that he doesn’t care if it’s good or bad attention.
Imagine thinking anyone listened to your constitutional opinions anymore.
We need more of you to be Patriots and save our country from the elite and the rich liberals that want to destroy our country!
Thank you Josh
There are so many of “them”.
We deserve better than you, that’s for sure. #MOdeservesbetter
I wish you could feel shame.
Hawley prefers his alternative universe to reality.
I see that your insurrection fist is still high in the air.
Traitor.
They certainly deserve better than having you represent them.
Feb 4, 2021 Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO) released the following statement on Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“The statements and conspiracy theories promoted by Representative Greene, including QAnon, calling into question school shootings, anti-Semitic and other offensive slurs and threats, have no place in the Republican party. To be clear, I find the statements and actions in question abhorrent and firmly untethered from reality. They only serve to place people in harm’s way and should be shunned by all Americans.
“It is also true that these actions took place before she was a Member of Congress, and her constituents appeared to largely be aware of them when she was elected. This is the People’s House, and removing Members from committee assignments for actions and comments prior to their service would set a bad precedent in Congress.
“I spoke with Representative Greene one on one last night and she made it clear to me she no longer believes the dangerous views espoused in her previous statements, and that she will not advance such views as a Member of Congress. She has now publicly expressed regret on the Floor of the U.S. House for her past actions and statements.
“For now, I will take her at her word, but I will be watching.”
Rep. Wagner (r) must have missed Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (r) floor speech last night.
“…It is also true that these actions took place before she was a Member of Congress…”
From Marjorie Taylor Greene (r), while a Member of Congress:
Washington D.C. — Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene released the following statement on the Democrat threat of Impeachment:
“For the entire four years of the greatest Presidential term of our lifetime, Democrats led by Speaker Pelosi and radical Socialists in her party attempted coup after coup against President Donald Trump.
Whether it was threatening to remove the President with phony 25th Amendment attacks, ridiculous Russian collusion conspiracy theory lies, or false criminal accusations about a perfect phone call with the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Democrats tried to overturn the 2016 election because they simply couldn’t handle the results.
Not only have the radicals in the Democrat Party tried to throw out the will of the American people, they have attacked anyone who dares support this President.
Everyone remembers the last four years of political censorship by the Silicon Valley Cartel targeting President Trump and his millions of supporters. Everyone remembers the occupation of the Senate office buildings by the Communist Women’s March screaming lies about Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Everyone remembers the harassment of Republicans including Senator Rand Paul, who was surrounded by a violent Black Lives Matter mob in the streets of Washington, DC. And, of course, everyone remembers the entire year of domestic terrorism conducted by Antifa / BLM militants, and championed by Democrat elected officials.
Now, 12 days before the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, these same Democrats, following their marching orders from the activist spokesmen in the Fake News Media, are launching another lie-filled assault on our Republic by threatening to impeach our duly-elected President, yet again.
Speaker Pelosi’s pursuit of impeachment will not “heal and unite” this nation as Joe Biden has called for in speeches. Another coup attempt will only further inflame half of the country.
This Hail Mary attempt to remove President Trump is another attack on the Silent Majority that Democrats have always looked down upon.
I have a message for Democrats, including Joe Biden: the time of demeaning and destroying conservative Americans simply for their beliefs has come to an end.
The new generation of MAGA Republicans will not back down to your threats. We will not back down from the smear campaigns from the Enemy of the American People, the Fake News. And we will not be silenced by Big Tech who wants to end free speech.
We will stand up and defend the 75 Million Americans who you are trying to cancel and ruin the lives of for daring to reject your Marxist ideology.
President Trump taught us how to defend our values.
We aren’t going away. We will never give up.
America First. Always.”
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That was after the sedition and insurrectionist breach of the Capitol.
Vicky: Where is your condemnation of those members of the House and Senate, members of your party, who, through their words and deeds, helped facilitate the death of Brian Sicknick and attempted to overthrow our government?
she was one of them
What hypocrisy! Your refusal to acknowledge election results played a supporting role in this tragedy. You have refused to impeach the man who caused the riot that led to the officer’s death. You should be ashamed.
Narrator: “She isn’t.”
HOW ABOUT APOLOGIZING FOR YOUR HELP CAUSING THE INSURRECTION THAT GOT HIM KILLED.
If you go, be sure to apologize for being part of the insurrection.
Honor him by convicting Trump and then resigning
ummmm you helped kill him
And we remember that you signed up to overthrow the results of the free and fair election thus giving oxygen to this group of domestic terrorists to take apart our democracy.
We won’t forget. You are culpable, look at his casket and know that you helped do this.
Let’s face it , Vickster.
The one and only reason you are tweeting this is because you got ratioed badly on your last tweet.
That officer is dead because of your actions.
These heroes died because you incessantly lied to your kooky constituents. Those thugs tried to finish the job YOU started trying to overthrow the election results.
#Shame
Please spare us the empty posturing.
Those heroes died because of an angry mob fired up by lies told by Trump and perpetuated by Hartzler.
Hartzler has yet to admit to to those lies or apologize so the notion that she has any plans to honor anyone is ghoulish.
Weren’t you part of the conspiracy to commit sedition group? His death is on your hands.
You were complicit in his death through your failure to accept the results of a free & fair election where Biden won overwhelmingly.
You fed hatred that resulted in our nation’s capitol building being overrun by terrorists.
Sticknick deserved better than you & so does America
Too bad you didn’t think about our Capital Officers before you supported terrorists who killed one and beat and maimed others.
How can you sleep at night knowing you participated in an insurrection that caused his death? Shame on you.
He sacrificed his life to protect Congress from the angry trump supporters. The people that believed lies about the election and you did NOTHING to dispute those lies. You let them grow and fester until these terrorists came to believe they could overthrow the government. You are…responsible for this officer’s death by being complicit. You chose not to protect democracy. I will never vote for a republican again after the insurrection that the GOP allowed to happen.
Narrator: Senator Josh Hawley.
You ran in the right circles.
Went to the right schools.
Your path was set, but you blew it.
After a lifetime of preparation, you’re going to lose it all.
And as the walls close in, remember,
you
did this.
You did this,
and this,
and you did this.
Videos like this one,
showing an officer being crushed by rioters
Narrator: It’s your fault, Josh.
You led it.
You own it.
You spent your life
trying to become someone that history would remember
Well, Josh,
you got your wish.
This take down is going to be satisfying to watch.
He’s still trying to hang on by his fingertips……but the spectacular fall is coming. A creep in denial is pathetic to watch.
Pop some popcorn!
Pass the popcorn.
He’s put his money on the wrong horse. He’s going to lose.
Hawley is everything that a leader shouldn’t be.
It is called to be on the wrong side of the History.
I prefer my elected officials to NOT be traitors.[….]
The condemnation and consequence and accountability has to come within the ‘current’ republican party and McCarthy and McConnell and all of their leader ship has shown only cowardice, this country will continue to pay the cost of their failure.
And definite traitor, whether witting or unwitting doesn’t matter. Traitor is the name history will remember him by.
Oh it’s witting. He knows exactly who he incited.
There is no room for sedition in our democracy. Hold every seditionist accountable. No one is above the law. Ashamed that he represents MO a state he doesn’t even reside in. For shame.
I wouldn’t trust this guy to dog sit my pooch, much less govern.
As someone who lives in Missouri and is ashamed of Josh Hawley’s conduct, I love this ad.
Yep, Josh Hawley belongs in the Hall of Shame for sure.
100 years from now when somebody down his line does some ancestry research ,they’ll probably be disappointed, embarrassed and sad
Josh “fist bump to traitors” Hawley you did this
Put all your eggs in the Trump basket. Would have been easier to work for respect.
Ain’t that always how it goes?
I wonder how him and his family feels seeing this devastating ad all over the airwaves? When will these people understand that everything that Trump touches dies
Great takedown! He deserves this and SO much more for his actions.
As bad as he’s been, Hawley will get worse.
He says he’s not being allowed freedom of speech. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. Such a tool.
The word “deplorable” comes to mind.
They used to say “The most dangerous place to stand in Washington DC is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone.”
Now, the most deadly place in America is anywhere between Senator Josh Hawley…and the Lincoln Project.
Phenomenal ad. Phenomenal.
Still do.
“The most dangerous place to stand in Washington D.C. is any place between Senator Josh Hawley and a live microphone” – Charles P. Pierce
Unprincipled ambition. If he is willing to do this to get ahead, what else has he done?
When I see the pictures of that day,I feel sad,angry,mad. History won’t forget Josh,you were on the wrong side of it. Someday the books will say so.
Another over-ambitious, self-absorbing politician who doesn’t have any principles. I will never trust this man.
You’d think that his Stanford and Harvard law education would shape him into a person guided by a moral compass , coupled with civility and wisdom- to differentiate between right and wrong. Well, it seems all of that went out the window on Jan 6th…
In anything having to do with numbers and data: “Garbage in, garbage out.”
Some people just have the heart and soul of a fascist. He is one of them.
