Josh Hawley

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• SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
  1/13/2021
  

  Josh Hawley Is Not the First Missouri Senator with Blood on His Hands

  by Steven Lubet

  Senator Josh Hawley arguably helped incite a mob to invade the Capitol to thwart the certification of Biden's victory. Missouri's antebellum senator David Rice Atchison helped incite a civil war in Kansas in 1854. 

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• SOURCE: Claire Potter
  1/11/2021
  

  Josh Hawley's Cancelled Book Contract Is Not "Orwellian"

  by Claire Potter

  The author has broadly defended free speech as a value. Josh Hawley's complaints about his cancelled book contract don't fit the bill.

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• 1/10/2021
  

  Teddy Roosevelt and Josh Hawley's History Lessons

  by David Goldfischer

  Josh Hawley wrote a 2008 biography of Theodore Roosevelt balancing praise of the former president's vision of democracy with condemnation of his grasping for power. One wonders how the author of this book could have acted as the Senator did on January 6. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/5/2020
  

  Josh Hawley Dodges Question During Fox News Grilling on Election Challenge

  Senator Josh Hawley's demands that Congress intervene in the electoral vote certification depends on ignoring that A: Congress formed such a commission in 1877 after three states failed to certify their vote and B: the resulting compromise forfeited the politial and civil rights of Black Americans. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/3/2020
  

  Media Should Call GOP Election Fight An Attempted Coup, Historian Says

  "I've been using that word for months now," historian and author Timothy Snyder told Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.

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• SOURCE: Boston Herald
  1/1/2021
  

  Opinion: Lawsuit Puts some GOP Lawmakers on Dumb Side of history

  Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg suggests that Republican protests over the Electoral College vote certification are ridiculous and will be remembered as desperate and un-American.