More than 60 state and federal courts, including multiple Trump-appointed judges, have rejected the former president’s arguments, and refused to overturn election results. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution. In an op-ed in the Washington Post in May 2021, Cheney wrote: “I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Cheney’s condemnation of Trump in the name of saving democracy also has appeal. 70% of Wyoming’s Republican primary voters voted for Hageman.

Taft, son of the 27 th president, who criticized the trials of Nazis at Nuremberg on the principle that people cannot be tried for crimes that were not illegal at the time they were committed such as genocide.Ĭheney’s break from Trump has much of the superficial appeal of an act of conscience in the face of constituent disapproval. The most intriguing profile to me is that of Robert A.

The most historically significant is the vote of Edmund Ross who saved the presidency of Andrew Johnson by voting against impeachment. An individual, based on conscience, decides to do what is right despite current policy. The idea of a profile in courage is appealing.

The book, although more than ghostwritten by JFK staffer Ted Sorenson, added to Kennedy’s intellectual aura and was an important step of the created mythology in the rise of the future president.Ĭheney was one of the recipients of the Kennedy family’s Profiles in Courage 2022 awards. Kennedy’s 1955 book Profiles in Courage won the Pulitzer Prize for describing eight senators who went against party expediency to do what they thought was right. Trump supported Harriet Hageman who won as part of Trump’s revenge against the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him. Despite voting 93% along with Trump while he was president, Liz Cheney paid the price for repudiating Trump following January 6 and co-chairing the House Commission on the Capitol insurrection. Is Liz Cheney’s stand against former President Donald Trump a profile in courage? Cheney was soundly beaten in the recent Wyoming Republican primary to run for her seat in the House of Representatives. Photograph Source: Daniel Warner – CC BY 2.0

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