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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.
ADVERTISEMENT 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.
RALEIGH, N.C. — In an emergency vote Monday night, North Carolina’s Republican Party voted unanimously to censure U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, just two days after the retiring Republican cast a
The eleven groups want Biden to make good on his remarks, calling for the president to immediately issue a general pardon for all former nonviolent federal marijuana offenders, and free anyone federally incarcerated for nonviolent, marijuana-only offenses in states where their former pot crimes are now legal.
According to the letter, there is a precedent for such a move, with President Gerald Ford and President Jimmy Carter both issuing general pardons in the 1970s to violators of the United States Selective Service Act for evading the Vietnam War draft.
Among the least approving of marijuana in the last Democratic presidential field, Biden tepidly endorsed decriminalization over legalization while labeling marijuana a gateway drug. However, he s since backtracked on his gateway drug comments and supported various methods of criminal justice reform. Last year, his campaign announced an intent to decriminalize marijuana use and reschedule it through executive action on the fed