A group of supporters of US President Donald Trump clashed with law enforcement officers in front of the gates as they stormed the US Capitol building in Washington on January 6, 2021.
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Congress will meet on Monday to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, four years after Trump’s supporters rioted inside the U.S. Capitol to protest his 2020 election. Lost in the general election.
No similar violence or chaos is expected at Monday’s joint meeting to confirm Trump’s return to power.
After the 2020 election, Trump falsely denied President Joe Biden’s victory and urged then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the certification, to reject the electoral votes when Congress met on January 6, 2021.
Harris, who will preside over Monday’s meeting, did not question the election results or spread false conspiracy theories to undermine confidence in the results, as Trump did.
Nor did Harris and her allies engage in a series of legal actions to try to overturn the election results, as Trump and his allies did.
Democrats are not expected to Raise an objection Just like some Republican senators and most Republican House members did in 2021.
Harris in the video First obtained by NBC NewsSaying her role is a “sacred duty” she is “guided by love of country, loyalty to our Constitution and unwavering faith in the American people.”
But while the process may return to its traditional ceremonial role in peaceful transitions of power, the scars left by 2021 are still visible.
The Capitol Complex will be in Emphasis on safety Lawmakers meet to certify the election. this Department of Homeland Security In September, Monday’s vote was designated a “special national security event,” the first time the certification of the electoral votes had been designated as a “special national security event,” prompting law enforcement at all levels to develop comprehensive security plans around the Capitol.
The certification event will also take place at a time when hundreds of people are in jail for their involvement in the 2021 riots. The Justice Department’s effort to investigate and prosecute the rioters, the largest such investigation in U.S. history, has resulted in charges against more than 1,580 defendants and convictions of approximately 1,270 of them.
Trump, impeached for second time for inciting mob to attack Capitol, vows pardon its participants — could include people who attack police officers, although he said “there may be some exceptions.”
minister of justice Merrick Garland Justice Department prosecutors “have worked with unwavering integrity to hold accountable those criminally responsible for the January 6 attack on our democracy,” they said in a statement Monday morning.
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