'Unfit to hold office': Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to censure Dem for 'insurrection'

'Unfit to hold office': Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to censure Dem for 'insurrection'
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered a resolution on Thursday to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-MI) for what she said was an "insurrection."

Greene brought the resolution to the House floor after Tlaib participated in a peaceful protest at the Capitol to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

"A resolution censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for anti-Semitic activity, sympathizing with terrorist organizations, and leading an insurrection at the United States Capitol Complex," Greene said, reading her resolution. "Whereas by leading an anti-American and anti-Semitic insurrection on October 18, 2023, Rashida Tlaib followed Hezbollah's orders to carry out a day of unprecedented anger, following an explosion at a Gazan hospital, lying about Israel's responsibility for the attack, which United States intelligence agencies said was not perpetrated by Israel."

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"And whereas members of Congress who denounce the United States while praising terrorist organizations are unfit to hold office," she continued. "Now, therefore, be it resolved that Representative Rashida Tlaib be censured."

The chair ruled that the full House would consider Greene's resolution at a later date.

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A three-time Trump voter says it's "insulting" that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's son-in-law is even running for Congress.

Meg Ellefson, a Wisconsin podcaster and former drive-time radio host, has lived in the district for 20 years and voted for President Donald Trump three times. Now she's one of the loudest Republican voices against his chosen candidate.

Republican candidate Michael Alfonso, 26, is running in the Aug. 11 Republican primary for Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District — Duffy's old seat.

"I think it's insulting to people in the 7th that someone who lacks qualifications and any life experiences and any kind of demonstrable leadership skills or experience is even being touted as a candidate," Ellefson told the Associated Press. "It's super aggravating to me."

Duffy transferred $1 million from his old congressional account to Alfonso's super PAC and lobbied Trump to endorse him.

"[Duffy] is exploiting his Cabinet position and fame to influence an election and hand one of the nation's highest offices to his unqualified, 26-year-old son-in-law," Ellefson told Axios.

She said she's "utterly disgusted by this blatant manipulation of voters."

Jessica McBride, a contributor to Wisconsin Right Now, a conservative news site, said activists believe Alfonso's "resume is too thin to qualify him for Congress, and yet there is disrespect being shown to the grassroots, which taken together amounts to a sense of entitlement."

"The Duffy Bunch has made 'The Swamp' their family business," Brian Christianson, a spokesperson for rival candidate Kevin Hermening, told Wisconsin Public Radio.

Hermening, a 66-year-old former Iranian hostage and financial planner, also ran for Congress at 26 — and lost by 25 points.

"The voters told me that I wasn't ready or prepared yet," Hermening told the Associated Press in an interview at his Wausau office. "I was ill prepared to have actually done the job, and I'm not saying that because Mr. Alfonso's in the race. It's a fact."

"[Duffy] uses the power of DOT to execute on the president's ambitious transportation agenda. That's it," Transportation Department spokesperson Nathaniel Sizemore said, adding that Duffy supports Alfonso only in his "personal capacity."

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The Supreme Court's ruling upholding birthright citizenship has triggered a wave of extreme proposals from MAGA figures aimed at restricting pregnant women from entering the United States, and one writer argued Monday that the reaction revealed something deeper about the movement's psychology.

Sarah Posner, an author and journalist for Talking Points Memo, spoke to what she considered to be MAGA figures’ increasing desire to “control” women on The New Republic's "Daily Blast" podcast, pointing to a series of proposals from prominent MAGA figures since the ruling, including denying entry to pregnant or female foreigners and requiring sterilization before entry.

Posner said that the proposals weren’t a new development so much as an escalation of a long-standing obsession – and fear.

"MAGA has always been very interested in policing women's bodies, whether it's preventing them from having an abortion, preventing them from accessing birth control, or in this case, preventing them from being in the United States when they go into labor," Posner said.

"You have a movement that's at its core disgusted by women's bodies. And that's why they want to control them."

Posner connected the proposals to the movement's broader anti-immigrant rhetoric, and described how officials have framed immigrant women – and women generally – as "conniving, dirty" and intent on defrauding the country. She also argued that those floating the extreme proposals were doing so to appease President Donald Trump.

"They have to coddle their little baby fascist president who just lost a case at the Supreme Court," Posner said. “So they have to show that they are really coming up with other ways to ensure that no foreigner has a baby in the United States anymore, despite the Supreme Court decision.”

President Donald Trump's interference in FIFA to un-suspend red-carded American footballer Folarin Balogun has triggered a firestorm of outrage in the European Union.

Generally, a red card, issued for severe misconduct in play, triggers an automatic one-game suspension. However, Trump's behind-the-scenes call to FIFA President Gianni Infantino ensured Balogun was cleared to play for Team USA despite his behavior in the match with Bosnia.

"We respect the autonomy of sport, and we respect the right of sports federations to decide on the criteria under which participants compete,” said European Commission spokeswoman Eva Hrncirova, according to Politico. She continued that “any such decision should, obviously, be made on the basis of objective and transparent criteria,” and “the EU supports the principle of fair play and transparent competition.”

Hrncirova, however, had one of the gentler responses. The Union of European Football Associations put out a statement saying, "Yesterday’s decision to suspend for a probationary period of a year the implementation of the one-match automatic suspension following the red card issued to the player Folarin Balogun crossed a red line. Football, like any other sports, relies on rules, which are the basis for fair, honest and transparent competition. Sometimes rules are open to interpretation. In this case not."

Meanwhile, Glenn Micallef, the European Commissioner for Sport, stated on X that while he personally disagreed with the suspension as a fan, "Decisions on sporting rules and sporting matters belong to sporting bodies, not politicians" and for politicians to put pressure on sporting bodies "would undermine the autonomy of sport."

All of this comes as Infantino's close relationship to Trump has come under heavy scrutiny and criticism, including his move to create a "FIFA Peace Prize" and award it to the U.S. president after he spent weeks complaining about not winning a Nobel.

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