This Republican House member chose the Constitution over Donald Trump
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Of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for his actions during the January 6 US Capitol riot, South Carolina's Tom Rice was the biggest surprise by far.
After all, Rice had cut a decidedly conservative -- and pro-Trump -- figure in Washington since being elected to the eastern South Carolina 7th district in 2012. (Rice was one of 139 Republican House members to object to the Electoral College results on January 6.) Rice didn't say much about his vote in its immediate aftermath. But in a terrific Washington Post profile of him that ran earlier this week, Rice puts its plainly:President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.