Elias Irizarry was suspended from The Citadel military college after he pleaded guilty in October to a misdemeanor charge for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Since Jan. 9, he has been working for the S.C. House of Representatives as a page.
A Democrat in the North Carolina state House switched to the Republican Party, giving the GOP veto-proof control in both chambers of the legislature and handing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper a setback in trying to block hardline conservative policies in his final two years in office.