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What is 'legitimate political discourse,' and does it include the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol?

When the governing body of the Republican Party called the events of Jan. 6, 2021, “legitimate public discourse,” it renewed a sometimes-furious debate about what are, and aren’t, acceptable forms of discussion and debate in a democratic society.

The Conversation

Romney won’t criticise niece for calling Trump lies and Capitol riot ‘legitimate political discourse’

Senator says he has texted with ‘terrific’ Ronna McDaniel, RNC chair who oversaw censure of Cheney and Kinzinger

The Guardian - US

Editorial: What’s the GOP’s new ‘big lie’? Jan. 6 was ‘legitimate political discourse’

Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of Donald Trump loyalists carried out an insurrection against the Capitol, is etched in the minds of Americans. No doubt historians will memorialize that terrible, ugly day as a nadir in American democracy, a moment of shame that indelibly scarred the nation.

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Islamophobia and the insurrection

For two decades, the FBI ignored white supremacist radicals while spying 24/7 on largely innocuous Muslim Americans

Salon

Trump ‘confused’ why staff didn’t enjoy him rewinding riot footage

‘Look at all of the people fighting for me’, Trump told stunned aides

The Independent UK

Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York won’t face action by House Ethics Committee over voting rights protest

NEW YORK — U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., won’t face any punishment or further investigation by the House Ethics Committee over his participation in a recent voting rights protest outside the Capitol.

Tribune News Service

‘I just wanna die’: NC man battling COVID-19 as sentencing looms for his role in Capitol riot

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Federal prosecutors want a North Carolina man to serve a month in prison for his role in U.S. Capitol riot.

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Madison Cawthorn backed the Capitol attack. Will he be barred from office?

We should be cautious about barring people from seeking office. But in the case of pro-insurrectionists, there is a very strong case

The Guardian - US

What does Ivanka Trump know about Jan. 6? Congress is asking

The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol wants to know what Ivanka Trump heard and saw that day

The Independent UK

Capitol rioter wants to subpoena Trump to testify in his defence that he acted on ex-president’s direction

Lawyer for man charged in attack argues Trump and his allies ‘engaged in a concerted effort to deceive the public ... into believing that American democracy was at stake’

The Independent UK

GOP’s shadow Jan. 6 committee targets Capitol Police “negligence”

The group plans to issue a report, including legislative recommendations, before this fall's midterms.

Axios

Trump’s election advisers were like ‘snake oil salesmen’, ex-Pence aide says

Former chief of staff Marc Short joins several senior Republicans to defend the former vice-president in escalating feud with Trump

The Guardian - US

Chris Christie says Capitol attack was ‘incited by Donald Trump’ to ‘overturn the election’

Christie was on Trump’s 2020 shortlist for top jobs in administration, but passed over

The Independent UK

Capitol rioter tells judge he lost a six-figure job, his retirement and his credit rating

‘There’s nothing the court can do to me that will come even close to what I’ve lost,’ Richard Barnard says

The Independent UK

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France 24

Pence dismisses Trump claim that he could have overturned 2020 election

In a sharp rebuke of his former boss, former US vice president Mike Pence said on Friday that Donald Trump was wrong to believe Pence had the power to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election that Trump has falsely claimed was stolen from him.

Los Angeles Times

RNC votes to censure GOP members of Jan. 6 probe, moves closer to debate withdrawal

Republican National Committee members passed a resolution on Friday to formally censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois over their work on a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an unprecedented rebuke of sitting members of Congress.

Reason

Mike Pence: 'Trump Is Wrong. I Had No Right To Overturn the Election.'

Republican party officials voted earlier on Friday to censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the only two Republicans participating in the investigation of the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol

Los Angeles Times

9 high-profile Trump allies sought by Jan. 6 committee

WASHINGTON — The nine-member select congressional committee created in July to investigate last year's Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and issued dozens of subpoenas.

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Salon

Pence finally hits back at Trump

The statement marks by far Pence's strongest rebuke of Trump in the year since the duo left office

The Guardian - US

Republican party calls January 6 attack ‘legitimate political discourse’

Party censures Cheney and Kinzinger, the only Republicans on the Capitol attack House panel, as Pence says ‘Trump is wrong’

The Independent UK

‘President Trump is wrong’: Pence defends certification of Biden victory

Former vice president’s remarks on push to overturn the 2020 election are the most critical words he’s ever spoken of his ex-boss

Salon

RNC calls Capitol riot "legitimate"

The stunning statement of support comes as the Republican National Committee censures incumbent members of Congress

Tribune News Service

RNC censures US Reps. Cheney, Kinzinger for serving on House Jan. 6 panel

The Republican National Committee voted to censure U.S. Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House committee investigating the insurrection at the Capitol last year, saying the panel is “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.”

The Independent UK

Republicans dub Capitol riot that left 100 police injured ‘legitimate political discourse’

Support for the violent rioters who stormed the Capitol is now the official position of the Republican Party

Roll Call

‘Nauseously woke,’ lunch in the Capitol and unicorn poop - Congressional Hits & Misses - Roll Call

Sen. James Lankford prolonged the Senate adjourning for snacks while Sen. Richard J. Durbin rattled off the weirdest possible vape flavors. Rep. Jim McGovern threatened to lower the temperature in the House Rules Committee if members didn’t speed up comments. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden outed Sen. Mitch McConnell, saying that…

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