(The Washington Post)Steinburg wasn’t alone among GOP lawmakers in suggesting that Trump suspend civil liberties, even after the electoral college finalized Biden’s win on Monday and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) publicly acknowledged the Democrat’s victory on Tuesday. Yet Trump has continued spreading baseless rumors on Twitter and falsely insisting that he won the election. “President Trump must declare a national emergency,” the 72-year-old state senator wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. “Trump should also invoke the Insurrection Act.”The Insurrection Act, which was signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807, would allow the president to deploy military forces on U.S. soil. Steinburg on Tuesday said he would support Trump if he suspended civil rights protections to detain his political enemies and change the election result.

Source: Washington Post December 16, 2020 10:12 UTC