AP: “On a vote of 24-9, three Republicans joined the chamber’s Democrats in advancing a resolution censuring Amanda Chase, a senator from suburban Richmond who is seeking the GOP nomination for governor.
The vote followed a long debate that featured scathing rebukes from Chase’s colleagues on both sides of the political aisle. Chase then launched into a series of personal and professional attacks on fellow senators, noting that some of them have had their own behavioral and legal troubles in the past. She also threatened to file a lawsuit if they voted in favor of the censure….In remarks on the floor earlier in the month, Chase defended Ashli Babbitt, a woman who was shot by U.S. Capitol Police during the insurrection. …
“We remember Ashli, and the three who died of medical emergencies and the Capitol Police officer who died during the chaos at the Capitol. These were not rioters and looters, these were patriots who love their country and do not want to see our great republic turned into a socialist country,” she said at the time….
Chase, an ardent supporter of Trump, has previously called for martial law to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. She repeated Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud, and lost access to her Facebook account after falsely blaming leftist activists for the Capitol insurrection.”