", "Sen. Josh Hawley Is Cast as a GOP Leader After Trump. [23][24][27] The Kansas City Star reported that Hawley's classmates saw him as "politically ambitious and a deeply religious conservative. And Christians' purpose in politics should be to advance the kingdom of Godto make it more real, more tangible, more present. [101], On November 18, 2019, Hawley announced the National Security and Personal Data Protection Act,[102] which would make it illegal for American companies to store user data or encryption keys in China. Though Hawley said he believes former President Donald Trump will likely be his party's nominee in 2024, the Missouri Republican said he has no interest in serving as vice president and . [184][196][197] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency specifically compared his reference to "cosmopolitan elites" to the term "rootless cosmopolitan", an antisemitic smear popularized by Joseph Stalin and also used by Nazis. When the case was reviewed by Hawley's successor, Eric Schmitt, insufficient evidence caused him to reject first or second-degree murder charges, but the statute of limitations had expired for any lesser offenses, so no one could be held criminally accountable for Sanders's death. [196] His statement was called antisemitic by several political commentators and Jewish leaders, as well as by the Anti-Defamation League, which called for Hawley to apologize. [83][84] Before the official announcement, four former Republican U.S. senators from Missouri (John Ashcroft, Kit Bond, John Danforth, and McCaskill's predecessor, Jim Talent) asked Hawley to run for the Senate seat.[85]. [27], During the campaign, Hawley released his and his wife's tax returns and called on McCaskill to release her and her husband's returns. [39], On May 5, 2017, Tory Sanders, a black motorist who had taken a wrong turn in Tennessee ran out of gas in rural Mississippi County, Missouri. "[91], Hawley met criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for initiating his Senate campaign less than a year after being sworn in as attorney general, as during his attorney general campaign, he had put out advertisements criticizing "ladder-climbing politicians." [7] He was the first senator to do so. The state argued that the companies violated Missouri consumer protection and Medicaid laws. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Article. Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri memorably held up a raised fist in support of insurrectionists shortly before they attacked democracy at the Capitol on January 6. [188], Hawley is an outspoken critic of China, which he has called "the greatest security threat to this country in this century. [48] In September 2020, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that of the 16 rape kit tests that were consequently uploaded to the national DNA database, 11 revealed the names of known criminals, and were referred for possible prosecution. [113][114], During a debate in the 2018 Senate campaign, Hawley and McCaskill agreed that if it was confirmed that the Saudi government was behind the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, the U.S. should respond severely. They run businesses or oversee universities here, but their primary loyalty is to the global community. As Missouri attorney general, Hawley initiated several high-profile lawsuits and investigations, including a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, an investigation into Missouri governor Eric Greitens, and a lawsuit and investigation into companies associated with the opioid epidemic. [165] They are: Hawley's political views have been described as nationalist[166] and populist. [78] Hawley promised that he would investigate any crimes, publish a report for the public, and refer potential cases to local law enforcement officials. [131] Similarly, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri's other major newspaper, published an editorial on January 7 calling for Hawley to resign and Republican "silent enablers" to denounce Trumpism, writing that "Hawley's tardy, cover-his-ass condemnation of the violence ranks at the top of his substantial list of phony, smarmy and politically expedient declarations" and "Trumpism must die before it morphs into Hitlerism. [65] The same day, Greitens asked a judge to issue a restraining order blocking Hawley from investigating him. Deputies responded and put him in the county jail. Hawley expressed his appreciation but declined the offer, saying, "Missourians elected me to fight for them in the Senate". [108], On February 8, 2021, after he voted against the nomination of Denis McDonough for Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Hawley became the only senator to vote against all of President Joe Biden's cabinet nominees[109] except Cecilia Rouse, whom he voted to confirm as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. McCaskill released her returns, which she files separately from her husband. "[76], In August 2018, after a Pennsylvania grand jury released a report detailing over 1,000 cases of sexual abuse by Catholic clerics, as well as protests by survivors of clergy sexual abuse in St. Louis, Hawley announced that he would begin an investigation into potential cases of abuse in Missouri. "[24], After spending ten months in London teaching at St Paul's School from 2002 to 2003,[21][28] Hawley returned to the U.S. to attend Yale Law School, graduating in 2006 with a Juris Doctor degree. [51][52], In April 2018, after the FacebookCambridge Analytica data scandal, Hawley announced that his office had issued a subpoena to Facebook related to how the company shares its users' data. 'The Kansas City Star' took aim at Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley for his stance on Russia. Those consultants illegally gave direct guidance and tasks to Hawley's staff and led meetings during office hours in the Missouri Supreme Court building. Above, Hawley speaks to the media as he arrives for a closed briefing on U.S. policy in. [24] Hawley graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa membership. September 28, 2021 at 7:44 p.m. EDT. Senate. ", "Hawley, Blackburn call for Biden to resign", "I saw the police state myself, says US senator", "Senate Unanimously Approves Measure Backing Hong Kong Protesters", "Hawley renews criticism of NBA commissioner Adam Silver for league's ties to China", "Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN apologize after reporter's profane email to Sen. Josh Hawley", "ESPN suspends Adrian Wojnarowski, its star NBA reporter, after profane email to senator", "Iran's mullahs or 'Make America Great Again' pick a side, says Josh Hawley", "Hawley critique of 'cosmopolitan elite' earns rebuke from Missouri Jewish leaders", "Missouri GOP Senator trots out anti-Semitic trope during speech before national conservative group", "It can't be anti-Semitism if you're not an anti-Semite, right? "[243], Hawley supported Trump's imposition of trade tariffs,[27] saying he hoped the tariffs would be temporary, eventually resulting in lower tariffs on U.S. agriculture than before the trade battles. He cosponsored Do Not Track legislation with Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Mark Warner. Hawley received substantial support from prominent Republicans, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Donald Trump, and the Senate Conservatives Fund. He was a law clerk to Tenth Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell and Chief Justice John Roberts and then worked as a lawyer, first in private practice from 2008 to 2011 and then for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty from 2011 to 2015. [152] Conversely, the Senate Conservatives Fund, a conservative political action committee, began raising money for Hawley and aggressively supporting him following the riot, raising $700,000 and spending nearly $400,000 to send texts and emails in support of him. S.418 118th Congress (2023-2024) Justice for Jana Elementary Act of 2023 Sponsor: Hawley, Josh [Sen.-R-MO] (Introduced 02/14/2023) Cosponsors: ( 0 ) Committees: Senate - Environment and Public Works Latest Action: Senate - 02/14/2023 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Before the counting of the votes, to which Hawley had publicly announced he would object, he was photographed saluting the protestors with a raised fist outside the Capitol. [38] During the campaign, Hawley criticized "career politicians" who were "climbing the ladder" from one position to another, which later became a point of bipartisan criticism of him when he ran for the U.S. Senate two years later. [122] He said he was in Missouri at the time. If we're in a war, I want to be winning it. [164] They are: For the 116th United States Congress, Hawley was named to five Senate committees. [235], Hawley is known for his criticism of Big Tech and social media companies and has often broken with other Republicans in his support for regulation of Internet companies. [58] In March 2018, six former Missouri attorneys released a letter calling the investigation "half-hearted". Capitol. Defense Superior Service Medal. [68] Though some argued the lawsuit would eliminate insurance protections for people with preexisting conditions, Hawley said he supported protections for preexisting conditions. "[121] Hawley responded, accusing Walmart of using "slave labor" and "driv[ing] mom and pop stores out of business". He has served since Jan 3, 2019. [153] A group of former McCaskill staffers created a political action committee aimed at unseating Hawley with the backronym JOSH PAC (Just Oust Seditious Hacks). [217] He does not support an assault weapons ban, but does support some gun-control measures, including strengthening background checks, banning bump stocks, and banning mentally ill people from having guns. [180][181][182] He has criticized the ideas of perpetual war[180] and cosmopolitanism,[183][184] for which he has blamed both the left and right wings,[183] saying that "the quest to turn the world into a liberal order of democracies was always misguided," as it "depended on unsustainable American sacrifice and force of arms. [184], In his address, Hawley also denounced the "cosmopolitan agenda", the "cosmopolitan class", the "cosmopolitan consensus", the "cosmopolitan economy", and the "cosmopolitan elite". [33][34], In June 2013, Hawley served as a faculty member of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, which is funded by Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian organization that has been designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Josh Hawley, Letter to Sec. [69] His 2018 Senate campaign said that he supported protections for individuals with preexisting conditions. [264], The couple have three children. The only two no votes for Austin's confirmation came from Sens. [35][36], In 2016, Hawley ran for attorney general of Missouri. [74] In a Supreme Court filing, Hawley argued that Bostic's sentencing did not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and that Graham v. Florida only applied to a sentence for one crime. Hawley has said that "Scripture teaches that political government is mandated by God for his service and is one means by which the enthroned Christ carries out his rule Government serves Christ's kingdom rule; this is its purpose. Don't cross the border illegally and this won't happen. Sen. Josh Hawley had a spike in grassroots donations after he led the charge to overturn the 2020 election. Senator Josh Hawley previously served as Missouri's Attorney General. [169] He has called Roe v. Wade "one of the most unjust decisions" in American judicial history. A republican candidate for senate, Rep Vicky Hartzler, introduced a bill to abolish draft registration for men and women. [136] David M. Kennedy, who served as Hawley's academic adviser at Stanford, said he "absolutely could not have predicted that the bright, idealistic, clear-thinking young student that I knew would follow this path"[24] and was "more than a little bamboozled by it, certainly distressed by it", though he said he did not believe Hawley directly incited the mob. [122] A video of the event shared by the group showed that some protesters wrote on the sidewalk in chalk, chanted through a megaphone, and left a copy of the U.S. Constitution at Hawley's door. He is 43 years old. [199][200] Mehdi Hasan argued Hawley's attack was antisemitic, though Sargent did not make that claim. "[123] Later that day, video showed Hawley running through the Capitol, fleeing the rioters. He also visited with Fort Leonard Wood residents about base housing in need of replacement. to force American women to register for the military draft. Senator Josh Hawley did not serve in the military. [28] While a 25-year-old law student at Yale University, he wrote supportive blog posts of the war in 2005, as well as nation-building in Iraq. "[178], Some of his former colleagues at St Paul's School claimed Hawley was "very hawkish" in his early 20s, supporting the Iraq War in its early stages and at one point making himself popcorn to eat while watching news coverage of the 2003 invasion. "[37] On January 7, Simon & Schuster canceled its planned publication of Hawley's book The Tyranny of Big Tech, saying it "cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat";[150] the book was later picked up by Regnery Publishing, which frequently publishes books by conservative authors. [127], That same day, The Kansas City Star's editorial board published an editorial arguing that Hawley "has blood on his hands" due to the event, which they called a "coup attempt",[128][129][130] saying that "no one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible" than Hawley, "who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway". )" Hawley is Suing to Kill Protections Enshrined in the Affordable Care Act In case you missed it: in February of this year, Hawley joined. Before the bill went to the House of Representatives, he visited Hong Kong to see the protests. [46] In October 2017, he expanded his investigation into three additional pharmaceutical companies (AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson Corporation), the three largest U.S. opioid distributors. "[211], In October 2019, Hawley called for an independent investigation into Joe Biden related to alleged dealings with Ukraine. [171][172], During early negotiations on COVID-19 relief spending, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed a partial rebate for around 70 million households with net incomes below about $50,000. [48] On November 29, Hawley announced a statewide audit of the number of untested rape kits. Raised in rural Missouri, Hawley previously served as Missouri's Attorney General. [7] His maneuver prompted bipartisan condemnation of his action as undemocratic. This historian disagrees. But Like Trump, He's a Faux-Populist", "Salt-of-the-earth GOP senator humiliates a 'smug, rich liberal elitist', "Sen. Josh Hawley among those traveling to Mexican border Friday", "Senator Hawley calls for sanctions on Mexico", "Hawley blocks quick confirmation of DHS nominee", "Sen. 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Not content with calling for a new emphasis on "traditional masculinity," Missouri's junior senator is now stepping up his. Hawley issued a statement approving of the decision. Hawley dismissed this, saying that the Senate was not on his mind during the attorney general campaign. Senator Hawley graduated from Rockhurst High School in Kansas City. [101] Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam called Hawley's assertion "irresponsible and unfounded". [237], In August 2019, Hawley introduced the Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology (SMART) Act, which would ban features, such as infinite scrolling and auto-play, that he says encourage internet addiction. Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam called the comment "irresponsible". [107] Alongside Sanders and Chuck Schumer, Hawley attempted to force a vote to increase the checks, but it was blocked by other Republican senators. [227], Hawley supports funding the construction of a wall along the southern border to stop illegal immigration. Saying how the Veterans Administration is already underfunded, the . [69] Hawley later published an op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader explaining that he supported protecting those with preexisting conditions by creating a taxpayer subsidy to reimburse insurance companies for covering these high-cost patients. [190], Hawley has worked to create legislation that would prohibit data transmission to a set of blacklisted nations, including China. Hawley said that if Ukraine had a military aid problem, it lay with the Biden administration's wavering support. [77] Missouri was one of several states to launch such investigations in the wake of the Pennsylvania report; the attorneys general of Illinois, Nebraska, and New Mexico began similar inquiries. Senator Josh Hawley to Deliver Keynote Commencement Address", "Republicans Had a Plan for Josh Hawley in Missouri. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) [179], Since entering the U.S. Senate, Hawley reoriented himself as a staunch opponent of U.S. wars in the Middle East. [143] Hawley has since faced bipartisan calls for his resignation,[128][137][144][145] to which he has responded that he "will never apologize for giving voice to the millions of Missourians and Americans who have concerns about the integrity of our elections. [4][5][6], In December 2020, Hawley provoked a political backlash when he became the first senator to announce plans to object to the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election. An examination of Hawley's time there by the London-based magazine the Fence, found Hawley was not the first choice to serve as a "Colet fellow" at the prestigious private school, a role . ", "Congress overrides Trump's veto for the first time on major military bill", "Josh Hawley Maintains Streak of Voting Against Every Joe Biden Cabinet Nominee", "Josh Hawley approves first Biden Cabinet nominee after defending opposition to all prior nominees", "The Senate has held floor votes on 118 Biden nominees. [157], After the storming of the Capitol, several people sent disparaging messages intended for Hawley to Representative Josh Harder, a California Democrat, as they had confused the two due to their names' similarity. [58], When allegations emerged in January 2018 that Greitens had blackmailed a woman with whom he was having an affair, Hawley's office said it did not have jurisdiction to look into the matter. 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