Toomey censured by several Pennsylvania county GOP committees over impeachment vote
By Aris Folley - 02/15/21 11:20 AM EST Sen. Patrick Toomey (Pa.) has drawn rebukes from Republican leaders in multiple counties across Pennsylvania following his vote to convict former President Trump during his second Senate impeachment trial over the weekend.
According to CBS Pittsburgh, Republican leaders in Clarion, Lawrence, Washington, York, and Centre County have voted to censure the fellow Pennsylvania Republican as a result of Toomey’s vote.
Toomey was one of seven Republican senators who voted on Saturday to convict Trump on charges that he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
The upper chamber ended up acquitting Trump in a 57-43 vote. At least 67 senators, or two-thirds of the chamber, would have needed to vote to convict the former president in order for him to have been found guilty of the charge.
In their censure document targeting Toomey over the vote, the Clarion County Republican committee called the Senate’s move to proceed “with articles of impeachment against a President who is already out of office is constitutionally infirm,†according to the local CBS station.
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