State Capitols Quiet as Biden Inaugurated as President
Lincoln – The Nebraska Capitol was mostly quiet Wednesday as President Joe Biden was sworn into office in Washington, but there was more security than usual inside the building.
Members of the Nebraska State Patrol stood watch inside the building's public entrances, but business otherwise continued as usual. Outside, three protesters walked around the building's perimeter waving a Trump 2020 campaign flag and a flag that said, “Biden is not the president.”
In the Legislature, lawmakers spent the morning as planned, introducing bills to be debated later this year.
Security was increased at the state Capitol amid rumors that supporters of President Donald Trump might stage rallies outside of state capitols to protest Biden's inauguration. A rally in Washington turned violent earlier this month after a mob infiltrated the U.S. Capitol.
Elsewhere in the country, calm prevailed outside heavily fortified state capitol buildings. The FBI had warned of the possibility for armed demonstrations leading up to the inauguration after Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed the election was stolen from him.
Fewer than a half-dozen demonstrators showed up outside the capitols in Concord, New Hampshire, and Lansing, Michigan. A lone protester wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat stood outside a chain-link fence surrounding the California Capitol in Sacramento, as dozens of police officers and National Guard troops guarded every entrance.
Dump trucks, prison buses and other government vehicles were used to barricade streets around the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, though no protesters were there.
Michigan lawmakers canceled a session out of caution. But Wisconsin legislators planned moved ahead with a public committee hearing.
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