SALT LAKE CITY -- Phil Lyman wanted to do something swift and stern.Within hours of Sen. Mitt Romney's vote to remove President Donald Trump from office Wednesday, Lyman, a freshman state representative from southern Utah who keeps an autographed "Make America Great Again" hat in a plexiglass
Within hours of Sen. Mitt Romney’s vote to remove President Donald Trump from office Wednesday, Lyman, a freshman state representative from southern Utah who keeps an autographed “Make America Great Again” hat in a plexiglass case in his office, was at work drafting a resolution to censure the senator.
Barely eight years ago, Romney was the Republican nominee for president and putative leader of the party. Today, the way many Republicans accept and even encourage the attacks on him from Trump, who last week accused him of using “religion as a crutch” to justify the impeachment vote, vividly illustrates the turn the party has taken.
“It may feel right — you want to swing at someone — but I think it’s better off to do what’s right,” Adams said in an interview. Though he disagreed with how Romney voted, he added, “I have respect for what he did.” Salt Lake City’s other major paper, The Deseret News, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, published an editorial arguing against a censure of the senator and has run numerous other supportive pieces, including one declaring that his vote was “what a Christian conscience demands.”
Last week, national conservative activists promoted a “Recall Romney” effort online and shared stories about a proposal circulating in the legislature that aimed to give voters the ability to recall their U.S. senators. “My strong impression,” said Edward Foley, director of election law at Ohio State University, “is that this kind of recall would be clearly unconstitutional. After all, the Constitution itself specifies six-year terms for senators, and has no mechanism — other than expulsion by the Senate itself — for a state to end a U.S. senator’s service before the six years are up.”
Romney has worked diligently to cultivate relationships with Republicans in Salt Lake City. After he left Washington the day of his vote on the president, one of his first stops was at the state Capitol to meet Republican lawmakers to explain himself. He spoke at two different meetings, one with House members and another with the Senate leadership.
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