On the eve of the January 6, 2021 votes, the far-right Congressman presented colleagues with arguments they could use to oppose the will of the voters.
If Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio was the most prominent public face of the congressional effort to fight the results of the 2020 election, his mentee, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, was a silent but pivotal partner.
In December 2020, Johnson collected signatures for a legal brief in support of a Texas lawsuit attempting to throw out the results in four battleground states won by Joe Biden. A constitutional lawyer, Johnson also was a key architect of Republicans’ objections to certifying Biden’s victory on January 6, 2021. Many Republicans in Congress relied on his arguments.AP
After a mob of Trump’s supporters, believing the election was rigged, stormed the Capitol on January 6, injuring about 150 police officers, Johnson condemned the violence. But he defended the actions of congressional Republicans in objecting to Biden’s victory.He wrote a two-page memo of talking points meant to buck up Republicans and lamented that the violence had almost eclipsed his careful arguments. “Most of the country has also never heard the principled reason,” he wrote.
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