GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah

Senator Romney Censured For Pro-Impeachment Votes Against Trump

A piece of the Trump karma finally caught up to one of his nemeses: U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney.

Seven Republican senators joined all the Democrats in voting to impeach former President Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.

Back home, the folks were none too happy.

By March 17, GOP Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Richard Burr of North Carolina, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska had been formally censured by state-level Republican officials in their respective states.

As The Free Press readers may recall, three other senators – Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania – were criticized by the folks back home. But only Toomey received a formal censure, from county-level party activists.

As we reported at the time, “Only Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has escaped any punishment.” 

That time has now passed.

Romney was booed and hooted at the Utah state GOP convention at the end of April. On May 1, the party rejected a censure vote by a 798 to 711 margin.

But this weekend, Romney got slapped with a censure by the Weber County, Utah’s fourth-most populated county.

The resolution noted that in February 2020, Romney became the first senator in 231 years of presidential history to vote to convict a president from his own party during an impeachment trial.

For the second trial, the document adds that Romney sided with Democrats “without sufficient evidence” that Trump caused the Jan. 6 riot.

In both instances, the resolution noted, Romney went with those who “denied the President due process, allowed falsified evidence, did not provide adequate time for an investigation, and did not follow the U.S. Constitution.”

The 116-97 decision is nonbinding, and will likely do little to hurt Romney politically outside of Utah.

Still, it does close this loop, and GOP activists at some level have wanted to abandon those lawmakers who, they say, abandoned Trump to the Democrats.

As one sponsor of the censure resolution told the local media, “We want him to be an effective senator, but we also want to send him a message that we did not appreciate you representing Utah by voting to convict our president, possibly losing us the White House, and possibly contributing to the loss of the senate.”

The fact that a Republican would side with Democrats on almost anything these days is quite astonishing.

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