Joe Biden will award Liz Cheney and 19 others the Presidential Citizens Medal for supposedly performing “exemplary deeds of service for their country or fellow Americans,” according to reports.
The award, the second-highest civilian honor, comes as former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chair of the partisan January 6 Committee, faces mounting legal pressure and the prospect of a prison sentence for witness tampering.
House Republicans have called for an FBI investigation into Cheney, accusing her of tampering with at least one witness during the partisan J6 inquiry.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, has yet to indicate whether he plans to investigate the former congresswoman. Patel, known for his strong defense of the rule of law throughout his distinguished career in government, could face tough decisions regarding potential probes into Cheney’s actions.
For her part, Cheney says she does not deserve to go to jail for alleged wrongdoing during her tenure on the committee.
However, a majority (57 percent) of likely voters across the United States disagree and wholeheartedly support an FBI investigation of Cheney, a recent Rasmussen Reports poll found.
Alongside Cheney, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chaired the committee and is also accused of wrongdoing, has also been announced as a recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal.
The Washington Post noted others who will receive the medal, which is the “second-highest civilian award”:
Other honorees include attorney Mary Bonauto, who fought to legalize same-sex marriage and argued before the Supreme Court inthe landmark marriage-equality case Obergefell v. Hodges, and lawyer and activist Evan Wolfson, a leader of the marriage-equality movement.
Veterans, health-care advocates and former lawmakers, some with close, decades-long ties to Biden, are also on the list. Among them are former senators Ted Kaufman (D-Delaware) and Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut), as well as two-time NBA champion and former senator Bill Bradley (D-New Jersey), a Hall of Fame forward who played for the New York Knicks before embarking on a career in politics.