Republicans Block Resolution Condemning Pardons For Rioters Who Assaulted Police
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The symbolic resolution would only have condemned pardons for the most violent rioters, but Republicans have mostly moved on from criticizing the Capitol riot.
WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a symbolic resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s pardons for rioters who attacked police on Jan. 6, 2021.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) asked the Senate for “unanimous consent” to adopt the resolution, connecting the mass pardon for rioters to Trump’s controversial “pause” on all federal grants this week.
“We are a week into the Trump administration, and it can be summed up in one word: lawlessness,” Murray said. “From pardoning en masse violent insurrectionists to illegally firing government watchdogs charged with holding him accountable to issuing blatantly unconstitutional executive orders to asking [the Office of Management and Budget] to halt funding Congress passed — something that is now causing serious harm to red states and blue states. We are not going to let his strategy of overwhelming chaos win the day.”
On behalf of Republicans, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) objected, saying he was grateful to be a week into the Trump administration and that Democrats weren’t interested in having a serious conversation about misuse of the presidential pardon power.
“If they did want a serious conversation, they would talk about Joe Biden’s pardons,” Barrasso said, citing Biden’s clemency for death row prisoners and his blanket pardons for members of his own family. “This resolution that the Senate is asked to consider today does not condemn the Biden abuse of the pardon power.”
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