| Updated: Jan. 27, 2021, 12:55 a.m.
A Democratic state lawmaker is launching an impeachment probe targeting Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes over his ties to a GOP attorneys general association an organization that encouraged people to rally at the U.S. Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt.
Rep. Andrew Stoddard is moving forward with the effort to impeach Reyes because of the attorney general’s “work to undermine our election process and results, and his regular failure to represent his client, the state.” He also wrote that he wanted more information about how the Republican Attorneys General Association was involved in “the domestic terror attack on our Nation’s Capitol.”
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Sean Reyes has been Utah’s attorney general since 2013 and recently won re-election in 2020.
This story has been updated to reflect new statements from Attorney General Sean Reyes and lawmakers.
Republican Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is facing a possible impeachment. The move stems from his ties to an organization that urged people to go to the U.S. Capitol the day it was sieged and for his involvement in challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Rep. Andrew Stoddard, D-Sandy, announced Tuesday morning that he planned to sponsor an impeachment resolution against Reyes, which he said is the best way to investigate Reyes’ actions. The other option is to request files through the state’s public records law, GRAMA.
The Rutledge Report, Part II: Her record, including her ties to Donald Trump
January 24, 20219:58 am
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge continues to add chapters to the book of her public record, generally lamentable particularly in her devotion to
Donald Trump.
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The latest chapter, as I mentioned earlier, is an outlay of what likely will exceed a quarter of a million dollars in public money on partisan assistance in redistricting that could have been done at no additional cost by her existing staff.
The event prompts me to share something I’d been holding in reserve.
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For your Sunday reading, a summary of the span of Rutledge’s Arkansas political career. It includes the unconstitutional public spending, for which repayments are now being sought court, to prevent the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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Three grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case were among those who filed a petition Friday with Kentucky’s House of Representatives calling for Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to be impeached, according to the Courier Journal.
The petitioners levied three allegations against Cameron, including one related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the Courier Journal reported.
They alleged that Cameron helped incite the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol by “financing, directing, and/or permitting radical robocalls that flooded the United States Capitol with rioters.” They also accused Cameron of breaching “public trust and failure to comply with duties for misrepresenting to the nation the findings of the Grand Jury,” and “abuse of office and breach of duties of professional responsibility and ethics,” according to the Courier Journal.
Three Breonna Taylor grand jurors among petitioners seeking to impeach Kentucky attorney general
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Three former grand jurors are among the “concerned Kentucky citizens” petitioning the Kentucky Legislature to impeach state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, according to Kevin Glogower, one of the attorneys representing the petitioners.
The citizens filed a petition Friday seeking the impeachment of Cameron on charges of “breach of public trust and failure to comply with duties for misrepresenting to the nation the findings of the Grand Jury” and “abuse of office and breach of duties of professional responsibility and ethics,” both of which are connected to the lack of charges filed against the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officers implicated in the death of Breonna Taylor in September.