{"id":21700,"date":"2026-04-21T22:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gops-mills-faces-expulsion-effort-launched-by-one-of-his-republican-colleagues-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:22:15","slug":"gops-mills-faces-expulsion-effort-launched-by-one-of-his-republican-colleagues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gops-mills-faces-expulsion-effort-launched-by-one-of-his-republican-colleagues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP\u2019s Mills faces expulsion effort launched by one of his Republican colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida was already dealing with multiple, overlapping scandals<\/a> when a judge issued a restraining order<\/a> against the congressman last fall after one of his ex-girlfriends accused him of threatening and harassing her. Soon after, Mills found that even some of his allies were keeping him at arm’s length.<\/p>\n

In December, Rep. Byron Donalds, a fellow Florida Republican, conceded<\/a>“The allegations against Cory, to me, are very troubling. I’m concerned about him. I hope he gets his stuff worked out and cleaned up, but it has to go through ethics [the Ethics Committee]. And he has to, you know, basically do that hard work to clear his name, if it can be cleared.”<\/p>\n

Donalds, a leading gubernatorial candidate in Florida, had previously suggested he saw Mills as a possible running mate, making the comments that much more potent.<\/p>\n

It didn’t do Mills any favors when The Washington Post published a new report<\/a> a few days ago highlighting body camera footage that showed police officers in Washington, D.C., who were prepared to arrest the GOP congressman after a woman accused him of assault last year, before a lieutenant ultimately ordered them not to when she changed her account. (Mills refused to comment, except to say that the woman’s initial claim was “patently false.”)<\/p>\n

Two days after the Post’s report reached the public, one of Mills’ Republican colleagues announced an effort to kick the congressman out of office. NBC News reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced a resolution Monday to expel Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., from Congress over accusations that include sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

Mills is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee in connection with allegations of ‘sexual misconduct and\/or dating violence’ and campaign finance violations. He has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“The swamp has protected Cory Mills for far too long and we are done letting it slide,” Mace said in a statement. “We tried to censure him and strip him from his committee assignments. Both parties blocked it, but we are not backing down.”<\/p>\n

By way of social media, the Floridian expressed confidence that he’d prevail if Mace’s resolution reached the floor, encouraging the South Carolinian to “call the vote forward.”<\/p>\n

Time will tell whether the expulsion vote actually happens, but in the meantime, after NOTUS reported<\/a> that Mills intends to respond with an expulsion resolution of his own targeting Mace, the congresswoman wrote online<\/a>“Cory Mills lied about his military service, has been accused of beating women, has a restraining order against him, and has allegedly been stuffing his own pockets with federal contracts while sitting in Congress. As a survivor, I will always stand up and right the wrongs of others. He is only coming after me because he knows he’s next.”<\/p>\n

It’s not often that Americans see members of Congress launch dueling efforts to kick each other out of office, but this is proving to be an unusually awful term.<\/p>\n

Indeed, amid growing GOP anxieties about the upcoming midterm elections, there’s fresh evidence that the House Republican conference is both divided and unraveling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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