The House January 6 Select Committee holds another hearing Tuesday
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Arizona state House Speaker Russell Bowers, a Republican, told the Jan. 6 Committee Tuesday that Trump allies, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani, asked him to violate his oath to the Constitution during a phone call after the 2020 presidential election.
"That's totally new to me. I've never heard of any such thing," Bowers said of his reaction when Giuliani and others presented him with the legal theory that the state legislature could replace then-President-elect Biden's electors.
"He pressed that point and I said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when I swore to the Constitution to uphold it. And I also swore to the Constitution and the laws of the state of Arizona," Bowers added.
"I would never do anything of such magnitude without deep consultation with qualified attorneys," he added. "And I said, 'I've got some good attorneys and I'm going to give you their names. But you're asking me to do something against my oath. And I will not break my oath.'"
Bowers said there was no quality evidence of fraud, and that he was deeply disturbed what he was being asked to do.
"It is a tenant of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired," Bowers said. "And my most basic foundational beliefs -- and so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to, was foreign to my very being. I...
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