President Donald Trump’s behavior that led to and during the deadly riots on the US Capitol building sparked a widespread backlash among hundreds of lawmakers on both sides of the political corridor, with congressional leaders demanding his government to invoke the 25th Amendment and impeach the president – or face a second impeachment process.
Calls for the president to be removed from office have increased in the final days of his administration since a violent mob of Trump supporters attacked Congress on Wednesday as it convened to ratify the 2020 election results.
The mob caused a delay of nearly six hours in ratifying the vote, which went on to formally declare President-elect Joe Biden as the next Commander in Chief. But Mr Trump’s speech in Washington just before the riots, urging his supporters to walk to the Capitol, and his video clip during the crowd that he was said to have added fuel to the fire prompted demands that he be removed immediately.
A growing group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives and Senate have called for Mr Trump to be held accountable, with some going as far as calling for the 25th Amendment – the process in which a majority of cabinet members vote to impeach the president. Here is a list of more than 230 lawmakers on Capitol Hill calling for the removal of Mr. Trump (The Independent Will keep updating this story as it evolves):
Members of the House of Representatives
Republic House
- Representative Adam Kinzinger from Illinois
Democrats and Independents in the Senate
- Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
- Senator Pat Murray is from Washington
- It. Mazi Hirono from Hawaii
- Senator. Geoff Merkley is from Oregon
- Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio
- Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
- Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania
- Senator. Chris Van Hollen from Maryland
- Senator Tim Kane is from Virginia
- Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont
- Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
- Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
- It. Alex Padilla from California
- Senator Mark Warner of Virginia
- Senator Brian Schatz is from Hawaii
- Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland
- Senator Tom Carber Delaware
- Senator Chris Coons of Delaware
- Senator Maria Cantwell from Washington
- Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts
- Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
- Senator Dick Durbin is from Illinois
- Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
- Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
- Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
- Senator Michael Bennett is from Colorado
- Senator Debbie Stapino of Michigan
- Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota
- Senator Tammy Baldwin is from Wisconsin
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen from New Hampshire
- Senator Maggie Hassan is from New Hampshire
- Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey
- Senator Ben Ray Logan from New Mexico
- Senator Kirsten Gillebrand from New York
- Senator Angus King of Maine
- Senator Dianne Feinstein of California
- Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado
Republicans in the Senate
- Senator Bensassi indicated that he would be open to studying impeachment materials against the president
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