U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on the Ellipse on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, near the White House in Washington, D.C., shortly before his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. - Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS
PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, as some Republicans in Congress moved to disenfranchise Pennsylvania's voters and throw out the state's presidential votes, Sen. Pat Toomey opposed the move, defying the president he had previously supported. "I rise to defend the right of my citizens, my constituents, to vote in the presidential election," Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on the Senate floor hours after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. "Even if Congress did have the constitutional responsibility to judge the worthiness of a state's election process, which it does not, rejecting Pe...
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