Rittenhouse Could Get Congressional Gold Medal If Bill Passes

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Kyle Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse was acquitted earlier this month of murder charges in the August 2020 fatal shootings of two men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. He was also acquitted on charges in connection with injuring a third man and endangering the safety of others.

Greene, a Republican legislator from Georgia, filed the bill last week. A summary of the bill states that Rittenhouse, 18, "protected the communities of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black Lives Matter riot on August 25, 2020."

The full text of the bill is not yet available. The Congressional Gold Medal is Congress' highest honor for distinguished achievements and contributions. Recipients include the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Robert Frost, Walt Disney and Martin Luther King Jr.

The legislation would need to be co-sponsored by at least two-thirds of Congress and then signed by the president before it passes. That's unlikely as long as Democrats control the House and Senate.

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