First Republican lawmaker announces he will vote for impeachment of Trump
From CNN s Kristin Wilson
Rep. John Katko om Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Republican Rep. John Katko announced today that he will vote to impeach President Trump.
Katko is the first Republican to sign on to the Democrats effort to impeach Trump for his role in spurring on his supporters in last week s storming of the US Capitol. It cannot be ignored that President Trump encouraged this insurrection – both on social media ahead of January 6th, and in his speech that day. By deliberately promoting baseless theories suggesting the election was somehow stolen, the president created a combustible environment of misinformation, disenfranchisement, and division, he said.
DC US attorney says prosecutors have marching orders to pursue sedition and conspiracy cases
From CNN s Katelyn Polantz
DC US Attorney Michael Sherwin and Steven D Antuono, an FBI assistant director out of Washington, vowed on Tuesday to leave no stone unturned as they treat the investigation of Capitol rioters similar to terrorism.
Sherwin said he gave his prosecutors marching orders to pursue significant sedition and conspiracy cases as well related to the insurrection.
The Justice Department has already charged 70 cases, and Sherwin said he believes that number will grow into the 100s, and already arrested individuals may face more serious crimes.
Steven D'Antuono, an FBI assistant director out of Washington, said agents are still investigating whether participants in the riot were looking to take hostage members of Congress.
House Democrats on Monday pushed ahead with their effort to have President Donald Trump impeached, convicted in the Senate and disqualified from ever holding federal office again over last week's siege on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
GOP Rep. Liz Cheney: I will vote to impeach the President Alex Wong/Getty Images/FILE
Wyoming s Liz Cheney, the third-ranking GOP leader in the House, announced in a statement today that she will vote to impeach President Trump, saying that he summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution, she said in the statement.
Read her full statement: On January 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of presidential electoral votes. This insurrection caused injury, death and destruction in the most sacred space in our Republic.