Hawley Calls for Investigation Into Seven Senate Dems Who Filed Ethics Complaint Against Him, Cruz

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is tearing into a group of Senate Democrats for filing an ethics complaint over the U.S. Capitol riot.

In a letter to the Senate Ethics Committee on Monday, Hawley slammed Democratic senators for filing “an unprecedently frivolous and improper ethics complaint” against him and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

He called on the committee to “discipline these Members to ensure that the Senate’s ethics process is not weaponized for rank partisan purposes.” The Republican senator called for an investigation into the Democratic lawmakers.

Seven Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), filed an ethics complaint against Hawley and Cruz on Thursday over their electoral college objections and if that contributed to inciting the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The letter by the Senate Democrats reads:

“The question the Senate must answer is not whether Sens. Hawley and Cruz had the right to the object to the electors, but whether the senators failed to ‘ut loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department’ or engaged in ‘improper conduct reflecting on the Senate’ in connection with the violence on January 6.”