{"id":13399,"date":"2025-09-17T22:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-defections-sink-effort-to-censure-rep-ilhan-omar\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:46:58","slug":"gop-defections-sink-effort-to-censure-rep-ilhan-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-defections-sink-effort-to-censure-rep-ilhan-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP defections sink effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting to sink a GOP-led measure to formally condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar and remove her from her committees.<\/p>\n

The 214-213 vote ended an effort by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) to censure Omar<\/a> and strip her of all her committee assignments over her criticism of the late conservative political activist Charlie Kirk. Omar has strenuously denied<\/a> directly making the comments cited by Mace, and House Democrats rallied behind her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is political theater. This is BS meant to bolster [Mace\u2019s] gubernatorial bid,\u201d House Minority Whip Katherine Clark told reporters earlier Wednesday. \u201cAnd frankly, she’s trying to monetize this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four Republicans \u2014 Reps. Mike Flood of Nebraska, Jeff Hurd of Colorado, Tom McClintock of California and Cory Mills of Florida \u2014 supported the motion to kill Mace’s measure.<\/p>\n

Mace brought up her measure through a fast-track process bypassing committees. Democrats immediately responded, with Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) calling up a retaliatory censure of Mills, who is subject to an ethics investigation and a restraining order proceeding<\/a>. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) also signaled he would file articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel in response.<\/p>\n

Omar, a Minnesota progressive, has long been a magnet for GOP criticism. The House GOP voted last Congress to boot Omar<\/a> from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. A small group of Republicans privately debated the potential fallout from a censure before Wednesday\u2019s vote, aware it could trigger a deeper escalation of partisan censure efforts. \u201cPeople forget that we can be in the minority someday,\u201d one House Republican said. \u201cBut it\u2019s also hard to defend her comments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats might now pull back on their retaliatory measures. A similar Mills censure effort was dropped after a GOP-led effort targeting Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) was defeated on the House floor earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting to sink a GOP-led measure to formally condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar and remove her from her committees. The 214-213 vote ended an effort by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) to censure Omar and strip her of all her committee assignments over her criticism of the late conservative political […]<\/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-13399","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\/13399","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=13399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}