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GOP senator blocks Democrat-led effort to block military funeral honors |
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for pro-Trump rioter killed on January 6 |
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By Aileen Graef, CNN |
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A resolution offered by Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego to |
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prevent the US Air Force from providing military funeral honors for |
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Ashli Babbitt failed Wednesday after an objection from Alabama |
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Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville. |
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The Air Force to deny military honors for Babbitt in August. Babbitt |
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was an Air Force veteran and pro-Donald Trump rioter who was shot and |
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killed on January 6, 2021, after breaching a sensitive area of the US |
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Capitol, where members of Congress were evacuating. |
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“She didn’t die protecting our country. She died trying to tear it |
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down. Military honors are sacred. They are reserved for the men and |
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women who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution and the |
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rule of law and actually live up to it,” Gallego said on the Senate |
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floor. |
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Gallego asked for unanimous consent for the Senate to proceed with the |
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resolution and it was objected to by Tuberville. |
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“Ashli Babbitt was never charged with or convicted of a crime. She |
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has never been found guilty of anything by a jury of her peers,” |
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Tuberville said, adding, “Has Ashli’s family not already been |
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through enough? Are Democrats just hell bent on piling on? |
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Unfortunately, Ashli is not with us any longer, so this petty |
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resolution would serve no other purpose than to punish the Babbitt |
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family.” |
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