{"id":12872,"date":"2025-09-03T16:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrats-move-to-punish-gop-rep-cory-mills-in-censure-escalation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:48:57","slug":"house-democrats-move-to-punish-gop-rep-cory-mills-in-censure-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-democrats-move-to-punish-gop-rep-cory-mills-in-censure-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats move to punish GOP Rep. Cory Mills in censure escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Democrats are moving to formally reprimand<\/a> Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) in response to a GOP lawmaker\u2019s effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.).<\/p>\n

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) is proposing to rebuke McIver and remove her from the House Homeland Security Committee after she was charged with assault<\/a> following a May scuffle outside a New Jersey immigration facility. The House is expected to take up the measure Wednesday.<\/p>\n

McIver has denied wrongdoing and vowed to fight the federal assault charge, which Democrats have denounced as partisan.<\/p>\n

Mills, meanwhile, has faced a spate of ethical issues including an since-withdrawn allegation of assault and an ongoing legal dispute over a previous relationship. He also faces an ethics investigation into allegations he benefited from federal contracts<\/a> while in office. Democrats are targeting his north central Florida district and have sought to turn the ethical controversies into a campaign liability.<\/p>\n

Censures have become increasingly common in recent congressional history<\/a>, with the House GOP moving this Congress to reprimand Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) for disrupting President Donald Trump\u2019s joint address to Congress. Three other House Democrats faced censure in the prior Congress. <\/p>\n

Disciplinary resolutions some of the few legislative moves available to the House minority \u2014 or individual lawmakers<\/a> \u2014 to circumvent majority leadership because censure motions and other moves related to discipline are \u201cprivileged,\u201d allowing them to bypass committees to be considered on the House floor.<\/p>\n

The Congressional Black Caucus has led Democrats’ effort to defend McIver and is pushing the move against Mills.<\/p>\n

“LaMonica is not afraid to fight for her constituents. The Congressional Black Caucus is not afraid to fight for her,” Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), the CBC chair, said in a Wednesday statement. “Our defense of Congresswoman McIver, and our work to hold Mr. Mills accountable are both in service of this Caucus\u2019 relentless pursuit of justice.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Democrats are moving to formally reprimand Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) in response to a GOP lawmaker\u2019s effort to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.). Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) is proposing to rebuke McIver and remove her from the House Homeland Security Committee after she was charged with assault following a May scuffle outside a New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}