![]() Mike Johnson, R-La., urging the high court to review the case filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton earlier this week. McCarthy, the top-ranking Republican in the House and a close ally of President Donald Trump, was included in a “friend of the court” brief led by Rep. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Friday joined 125 other congressional Republicans in supporting Texas’ long-shot Supreme Court lawsuit challenging Joe Biden’s projected presidential victory. You might remember this cringey moment, when he scurried to catch up to the rest of his caucus as it became clear they were embracing bizarre and absurd legal strategies to overturn the election. He orchestrated the excommunication of Liz Cheney and hugged the QAnon caucus to his breast.īut McCarthy’s pattern of reckless surrender was set even before the attack. Like the Freedom Caucus, McCarthy has faithfully repeated the lie about the 2020 election being stolen.” ![]() It’s worth remembering that he did not have far to fall.Īs Charen notes: “McCarthy, like all of the members of the Freedom Caucus who are attempting to thwart him, refused to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College. Then there is McCarthy himself, whose current shape-shifting political identity was birthed by his embrace of election denialism and the Seditionist-in-Chief.īy now, you know that story: after a brief spasm of conscience in which he blamed Trump for the violence, McCarthy quickly fell back into line. During that call, the group also discussed issuing social media posts encouraging President Trump’s supporters to “march to the Capitol” on the 6th. On January 2, 2021, Representative Jordan led a conference call in which he, President Trump, and other Members of Congress discussed strategies for delaying the January 6th joint session. He participated in numerous post-election meetings in which senior White House officials, Rudolph Giuliani, and others, discussed strategies for challenging the election, chief among them claims that the election had been tainted by fraud. Today, she is firmly allied with McCarthy, and poised to win key committee assignments under his speakership.Īnd, here is what the January 6 Committee said about one of McCarthy’s closest allies, Jim Jordan: ![]() ![]() Just last month, Marjorie Taylor Greene said that “if Steve Bannon and I had organized” the attack on the Capitol, “we would have won. “Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of � no return � in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!” Norman wrote.īut, as my colleague Mona Charen continues to point out, the current imbroglio over McCarthy does not pit extremists versus the establishment. Then there’s North Carolina’s Ralph Norman who urged Trump to declare “Marshall Law,” (sic) just days before the inauguration. McCarthy’s opponents include Matt Gaetz, who falsely claimed that some of the rioters “were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa." They also include Pennsylvania’s Scott Perry who pushed bizarre conspiracy theories about foreign interference and urged Trump to replace the acting attorney general “with an acolyte willing to do Trump’s bidding.” Five days after the election was called for Joe Biden, Perry was texting White House COS Mark Meadows: “From an Intel friend: DNI needs to task NSA to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to Dominion.” Today’s GOP is still the January 6 Party.Īs the Wapo reported, all but two of the 20 anti-McCarthy votes are “ election deniers who embraced former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.”
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