The North Carolina Republican Party Central Committee, the key governing committee of the state party met for several hours on Saturday in a regularly scheduled meeting.
Sen. Pat Toomey faces censure over impeachment vote: 'We did not send him there to do the right thing' Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – Several members of Congress have faced criticism and even formal censures from their state and county Republican parties because they voted to support the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, including Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
One Republican official in Pennsylvania said Toomey was not sent to Congress "to do the right thing." Washington County Republican Chair Dave Ball ripped on Toomey for justifying his vote to convict Trump on the charge of inciting the violent Jan. 6 riot at the United States Capitol.
The North Carolina Republican Party voted Monday to censure Sen. Richard Burr over his vote to convict former President Donald Trump during Trump’s second impeachment trial.
UPDATE 1-North Carolina Republican leaders vote to censure Burr over impeachment vote Reuters 2/16/2021
(Adds vote of censure, McConnell opinion piece)
By Joel Schectman and David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) - North Carolina Republican leaders on Monday voted to censure Senator Richard Burr over his vote to convict former U.S. President Donald Trump during his impeachment trial.
Burr, a third-term North Carolina Republican who has said he does not plan to seek reelection in 2022, was one of just seven out of 50 Republican senators to vote to convict Trump for inciting his supporters' Jan. 6 attack on Congress, which left five people dead.
The committee announced the censure in a statement that argued Burr's vote to convict went outside the authority of the Constitution.
"Tonight, the North Carolina Republican Party Central Committee voted unanimously to censure Senator Richard Burr for his vote to convict former President Trump in the impeachment trial which he declared to be unconstitutional," the committee said in a statement, adding that "the Democrat-led attempt to impeach a former President lies outside the United States Constitution."
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"Now that the Senate has voted to acquit President Trump, we hope that Democrats will set aside their divisive partisan agenda and focus on the American priorities of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, safely reopening schools and restarting the economy," it concluded.
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The North Carolina Republican Party said on Monday that it had voted unanimously to censure Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) for his vote to impeach former President Donald Trump.