Showing posts with label censure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censure. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

North Carolina Republicans censure Sen. Thom Tillis after stance on LGBTQ issues - The Washington Post

Tillis has joined several bipartisan deals in Washington, including on topics considered flash points in U.S. politics. In 2022, he worked on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — the most significant gun legislation since the 1990s — which had support from 15 Senate Republicans to pass on a 65-33 vote. 

Also last year, he helped pass the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified protections for same-sex and interracial couples. Tillis has also broken with his party's stance on immigration issues...


Thursday, July 21, 2022

Friday, February 11, 2022

Kinzinger: "We have to recognize" the possibility of a civil war - Axios

"A once great party, a party that stood for something, stood for principles, whether you agree with those principles or not, is now a party that stands for loyalty to one man, that was clear in the RNC censure, and that's what makes me sad more than anything," he said…


Saturday, February 5, 2022

Opinion | The Republican Party’s Orwellian censure of Liz Cheney - The Washington Post

…By asserting, as their censure resolution did Friday, that truth is fiction and patriots are turncoats, they have exposed the dark, festering core of what their party is becoming: an unruly revolt against fact and reason that betrays the principles leaders, such as former president Ronald Reagan, championed...


Thursday, November 18, 2021

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Nevada GOP censures elections official who defended results - The Washington Post

"Regrettably, members of my own political party have decided to censure me simply because they are disappointed with the outcome of the 2020 election. While I have been loyal to the Nevada Republican Party during my over two decades as an elected official, I have been unwavering in my commitment to oversee elections and administer Nevada's election laws in a neutral, nonpartisan manner," ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nevada-gop-censures-elections-official-who-defended-results/2021/04/11/41ba3d5e-9af9-11eb-b2f5-7d2f0182750d_story.html


Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Opinion | You want healing? Here are some ideas. - The Washington Post

... The mourning for those killed on Jan. 6 has barely begun. And neither President Trump nor a single Republican lawmaker who held aloft the sedition banner in Congress by objecting to electoral votes has apologized. Nevertheless, Republicans are calling for unity and demanding healing, which entails "moving on" and forgetting about impeachment. This will replace the definition of chutzpah (previously illustrated by the child who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan)...

Friday, December 6, 2019

What does it mean to censure a politician? | PBS NewsHour

As the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump enters a new round of hearings, one idea has been discussed as a way to come out against the president short of impeachment — censure. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-does-it-mean-to-censure-a-politician

Friday, January 18, 2019

A day after distancing themselves from racist Steve King, Republicans meet with alt-right troll - Daily Kos

On Tuesday, House Republicans voted unanimously on a resolution of disapproval directed at Rep. Steve King after King questioned why white nationalism and white supremacy were considered offensive. On Wednesday, notorious Holocaust-denying white-supremacy-supporting even-banned-from-Twitter alt-right troll Chuck Johnson visited the Congress, the guest of House Republican Reps. Andy Harris of Maryland and Phil Roe of Tennessee. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1827124







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