Showing posts with label censure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censure. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Friday, June 23, 2023
Republicans’ vindictive censure of Adam Schiff, explained - Vox
The reasons the GOP is so eager for political revenge...
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
Arizona GOP censures Rusty Bowers after Jan. 6 testimony
Bowers, who rejected Trump's scheme to appoint fake Electoral College voters, was still quite servile to Trump. But evidently, not servile enough...
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
Rep. Paul Gosar’s censure over a violent video featuring AOC matters - Vox
"We cannot have members joking about murdering each other, as well as threatening the president of the United States," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said earlier this week...
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
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)...
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Texas AG won't defend state agency in gay marriage suit, citing beliefs
Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley has refused to marry same-sex couples for years, and is suing the Texas Commission on Judicial Review over her censure.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/texas-ag-won-t-defend-state-agency-gay-marriage-suit-n1126731
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/texas-ag-won-t-defend-state-agency-gay-marriage-suit-n1126731
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, October 4, 2019
Rahm Emanuel: On impeachment, Pelosi has many good options - The Washington Post: Opinion
The House speaker is navigating tricky waters.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/02/rahm-emanuel-impeachment-pelosi-has-many-good-options/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/02/rahm-emanuel-impeachment-pelosi-has-many-good-options/
Saturday, May 25, 2019
What Rep. Justin Amash’s call for Trump’s impeachment showed about the Republican Party - Vox
A late-night vote among conservatives in Congress cemented Trump's power.
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/23/18634023/justin-amash-impeachment-republican-freedom-caucus
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/23/18634023/justin-amash-impeachment-republican-freedom-caucus
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
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1827124
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