North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr doesn’t wear socks — and impeachment is no exception

North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr has a long tradition of wearing shoes with no socks, including at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

Courtroom sketch artist Art Lien captured the Republican lawmaker’s bare feet in loafers Monday. The sketch took place as Burr and fellow Sen. Kelly Loeffler listened to Rep. Val Demings make the case for Trump’s removal.

Burr later made the image his profile picture on Twitter.

Burr has been a longtime advocate of going sockless. He tweeted in September: “I got 99 problems but socks ain’t one.”

He campaigned without socks in 2008 for the late Sen. John McCain during his presidential run. In a 2016 interview with WXII that the senator later posted on Twitter, Burr said that he is not opposed to socks, he just chooses not to wear them.

Burr told the Wilmington Star News in 2018 that his reluctance to wear socks comes from the way he grew up, and it doesn’t matter if it is summer or winter. However, he has changed to wear socks “on most Tuesdays and Wednesdays and for church on Sundays.”

“I try to be a conforming politician on those days,” he told the publication.

This story was originally published January 22, 2020 at 12:31 PM with the headline "North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr doesn’t wear socks — and impeachment is no exception."