Editorial: An election myth becomes a violent mob
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Posted Jan 07, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: A pro-Trump mob breaks into the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty ImagesGetty Images
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The mob of violent Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Wednesday was nothing short of a national disgrace. Their hijacking of Congress was no protest, but rather a criminal act against American voters, values and institutions. That many carried the American flag as they sought to upend a defining aspect of our democracy – certifying the election of a president – gave this whole absurd, dangerous
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SALEM â Bobby Levy will replace Greg Barreto as District 58âs state representative in 2021, but they got a chance to collaborate before the end of Barretoâs tenure on a letter supporting the effort to halt the Electoral College vote in several key swing states in the 2020 presidential election.
Barreto and Levy signed a Dec. 11 letter from a group of GOP legislators to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum requesting she join a Texas lawsuit that sought to block electors in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from voting for President-elect Joe Biden.
The letter didnât sway Rosenblum, a Democrat, who joined 22 attorneys general in filing a brief opposing the lawsuit. On the same day the Oregon legislators sent the letter, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, asserting that Texas didnât have standing to sue other states over their election systems.