List courtesy of the Washington Post
This blog post was written the day after the Supreme Court decision to deny Texas standing under Article III of the Constitution, regarding Texas's bid to have the Supreme Court throw out the 2020 presidential election results.
It's shameful that seventeen state attorney generals and two-thirds of US House Republicans signed on to this undemocratic, far-right, authoritarian power grab. I'm recording these names because they should be shamed.
These men and women took a solemn vow to protect and defend the United States of America against foreign and domestic enemies, but they have miserably failed to carry out their oath. Plain and simple, the following men and women do not represent American ideals. They are Republican party fascists.
Republican Party List of Shame
First, the attorneys general, the chief law enforcement officers of their states, who joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in this legal monstrosity:
Eric Schmitt, Missouri (he goes first because Missouri filed the brief)
Steve Marshall, Alabama
Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas
Ashley Moody, Florida
Curtis Hill, Indiana
Derek Schmidt, Kansas
Jeff Landry, Louisiana
Lynn Fitch, Mississippi
Tim Fox, Montana
Doug Peterson, Nebraska
Wayne Stenehjem, North Dakota
Mike Hunter, Oklahoma
Alan Wilson, South Carolina
Jason Ravnsborg, South Dakota
Herbert H. Slatery III, Tennessee
Sean Reyes, Utah; Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia
Second, the House members, including:
McCarthy, Whip Steve Scalise (La.)
Jim Jordan (Ohio), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee
Kevin Brady (Tex.), ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Gary Palmer (Ala.), head of the Republican Policy Committee
Mike Johnson (La.)
The rest, listed in order of their home state:
Alabama (Robert B. Aderholt, Mo Brooks, Bradley Byrne)
Arizona (Andy Biggs, Debbie Lesko)
Arkansas (Eric A. “Rick” Crawford, Bruce Westerman)
California (Ken Calvert, Doug LaMalfa, Tom McClintock)
Colorado (Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn)
Florida (Gus M. Bilirakis, Mario Diaz-Balart, Neal Dunn, Matt Gaetz, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Ross Spano, Michael Waltz, Daniel Webster, Ted Yoho)
Georgia (Rick Allen, Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, Douglas A. Collins, Drew Ferguson, Jody Hice, Barry Loudermilk, Austin Scott)
Idaho (Russ Fulcher, Mike Simpson)
Illinois (Mike Bost, Darin LaHood)
Indiana (Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Trey Hollingsworth, Greg Pence, Jackie Walorski)
Iowa (Steve King)
Kansas (Ron Estes, Roger Marshall)
Louisiana (Ralph Abraham, Clay Higgins)
Maryland (Andy Harris)
Michigan (Jack Bergman, Bill Huizenga, John Moolenaar, Tim Walberg)
Minnesota (Tom Emmer, Jim Hagedorn, Pete Stauber)
Mississippi (Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, Steven M. Palazzo)
Missouri (Sam Graves, Billy Long, Vicky Hartzler, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason T. Smith, Ann Wagner)
Montana (Greg Gianforte)
Nebraska (Jeff Fortenberry, Adrian Smith)
New Jersey (Gregory Steube, Jeff Van Drew)
New York (Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin)
North Carolina (Dan Bishop, Ted Budd, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, Greg Murphy, David Rouzer, Mark Walker)
Ohio (Bob Gibbs, Bill Johnson, Robert E. Latta, Brad Wenstrup)
Oklahoma (Kevin Hern, Markwayne Mullin)
Pennsylvania (John Joyce, Frederick B. Keller, Mike Kelly, Dan Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Glenn Thompson)
South Carolina (Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Tom Rice, William Timmons, Joe Wilson)
Tennessee (Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Charles J. “Chuck” Fleischmann, Mark Green, David Kustoff, John Rose)
Texas (Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C. Burgess, Michael Cloud, K. Michael Conaway, Dan Crenshaw, Bill Flores, Louie Gohmert, Lance Gooden, Kenny Marchant, Randy Weber, Roger Williams, Ron Wright)
Virginia (Ben Cline, H. Morgan Griffith, Rob Wittman, Ron Wright)
Washington (Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Dan Newhouse)
West Virginia (Carol Miller, Alex Mooney)
Wisconsin (Tom Tiffany)
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