Liberals ramp up pressure on Pelosi to discipline Boebert
By Mike Lillis and Hanna Trudo - 12/08/21 05:52 PM EST
House liberals are escalating their campaign to punish Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for recent Islamophobic remarks targeting a Muslim colleague, warning Democratic leaders that a failure to do so will condone bigotry and threaten the safety of minorities across the country.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her Democratic leadership team had moved quickly earlier in the year to discipline Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) for promoting violent rhetoric and imagery against Democratic lawmakers.
But they’re treading more carefully in the case of Boebert, who stirred a firestorm of controversy after a video emerged last month in which she suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of three Muslims in Congress, must be a suicide bomber because of her faith.
Omar’s liberal allies are racing to her defense, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution this week calling for Boebert to be removed from her committee assignments — the same punishment applied to Greene and Gosar.
“We have a responsibility to show this country that bigotry is unacceptable,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said during a Wednesday press conference urging party leaders to consider the resolution.
Others were even more direct.
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