Sen. Patrick Toomey (Pa.) has drawn rebukes from Republican leaders in multiple counties across Pennsylvania following his vote to convict former President Trump during his second Senate impeachment trial over the weekend.
According to CBS Pittsburgh, Republican leaders in Clarion, Lawrence, Washington, York, and Centre County have voted to censure the fellow Pennsylvania Republican as a result of Toomey’s vote.
Toomey was one of seven Republican senators who voted on Saturday to convict Trump on charges that he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
In their censure document targeting Toomey over the vote, the Clarion County Republican committee called the Senate’s move to proceed “with articles of impeachment against a President who is already out of office is constitutionally infirm,” according to the local CBS station.
The committee also described the move as “a purely self-serving vindictive and punitive action by those with establishment political objectives.”