WASHINGTON — On the same Tuesday afternoon when ex-President Donald Trump in Miami pleaded not guilty to 37 federal felony counts stemming from his alleged mishandling of classified documents, I decided to head over to Capitol Hill to see Liz Cheney get an ethics award named for Illinois’ anti-corruption warrior, Sen. Paul Douglas.
Cheney is the Wyoming Republican whose House career ended after three terms, un-electable because she was the vice chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cheney and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., were the only Republicans on the panel, and for that they sacrificed their seats in Congress as the GOP morphed into the party of Trump.
