Pelican State News

A unanimous vote was made by the Louisiana Republican Party on Saturday to censure Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) following his vote to convict former President Donald Trump.

“The Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana has unanimously voted to censure Sen. Bill Cassidy for his vote cast earlier today to convict former President Donald J. Trump on the impeachment charge,” the state GOP said in a statement on Saturday night as reported by The Epoch Times. 

The censure acts as a formal statement to condemn Cassidy and a warning that he might not get full support come 2026 when he seeks reelection.

In the impeachment trial that ended in a 57-43 vote to convict Trump, Cassidy and six other Republicans sided with the Democrats to convict the former president. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict. After the trial, Cassidy was quoted saying that the “constitution and our country is more important than any one person,” and that he “voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty.” The Epoch Times reported. 

Fellow Republican State Sen. Stewart Cathey Jr. expressed his disappointment over Cassidy’s vote to convict.

“We elected Sen. Cassidy back in November … and we overwhelmingly sent him back to D.C., along with President Trump. His constituents thought we were sending him there with a lot of those same ideals,” Cathey told WICZ, according to The Epoch Times.

Other Republicans who angered the GOP by voting to convict include Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitt Romney (Utah), Richard Burr (N.C.), Susan Collins (Maine), Ben Sasse (Neb.), and Pat Toomey (Pa.). Sasse reportedly has plans to run for the presidency while Burr and Toomey are planning to retire in 2022 when their terms lapse. Romney and Murkowski are up for reelection in 2024 and 2022 respectively.