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On Monday, the Democratintroduced a resolutioncalling for the removal of the Republican representatives who sought to overturn the results of the election, saying their actions had spurred on the mob of Trump supporters who breached the Capitol.
“Today, as my first legislative action, I introduced a resolution calling for the removal of the Members of Congress who have, for months, tried to steal this election and invalidate the votes of millions of people, especially Black, brown, and Indigenous voters,“Bush, 44, said in a statement. “The dangerous consequences of their actions led to an attempted white supremacist coup that put thousands of lives in danger and left five people dead.”
Bush won her race for Missouri’s 1st congressional district in November, defeating longtime representative William Lacy Clay in a landmark victory that made her the first Black woman to be elected to Congress in the state.
“This is America, and it will continue to be America, until white supremacy is dismantled,” Bush wrote. “Justice starts at removing each and every representative who incited this insurrection.”
Bush’s resolution calls for the expulsion of “Republican lawmakers who tried to overturn the valid results of the 2020 elections,” citing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which posits that no individual can serve in the House of Representatives who has engaged in disloyalty or sedition against the United States.
“The actions of the Republican lawmakers who tried to overturn the valid results of the 2020 elections must not only be condemned in the strongest possible terms, but I believe the members who attempted to disenfranchise voters and incited this violence must be removed from Congress,” Bush said in her Monday statement.
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Bush continued: “This is sedition. We must hold these Republicans accountable for their role in this insurrection at our nation’s Capitol as part of a racist attempt to overturn the election results. There must be consequences, and I am proud to be leading 47 of my colleagues in introducing this legislation, which would initiate the appropriate investigations for removal.”
While it’s unlikely that there would be enough votes to expel members of Congress from the legislative body, a number of Republican lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have been blamed for stoking the tensions that led to the attempted insurrection (during which at leastfive people died, including a Capitol Police officer).
Even somefamily membersof elected officials (such as the siblings of Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar) have suggested they be expelled from Congress for their role in inciting the violence.
Republican senators who objected to thecertification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, citing unfounded claims of voter fraud, include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.
Last week, Democrat Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezcalled for both Cruz and Haley to resign because of how their “self-serving actions contributed to the deaths” at the Capitol, writing onTwitterthat if they do not, “the Senate should move for your expulsion.”
source: people.com
