State Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, speaks during the Senate's Jan. 14 session.
A newly reworded resolution to censure state Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield County, seeks to place the ardent Trump supporter and gubernatorial hopeful last in seniority “for failure to uphold her oath of office, misuse of office and conduct unbecoming of a senator.” It no longer seeks censure “for fomenting insurrection,” as a previous version read.
The Senate resolution now includes a list of controversies surrounding Chase, including: her conflict with a state Capitol police officer in 2019; her anti-masking stance; statements seen as derogatory toward rape victims, Black people and state Democrats; and “propagating unfounded claims” about the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Chase spoke at the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. that preceded the violent insurrection and left the National Mall in the early afternoon, before the breach of the Capitol building. In a social media post, she used the word “patriots” in regard to the rioters and said that pro-Trump rioter and charged that Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt “was brutally murdered by Capitol Police.”
