The GOP's lengthy impeachment and censure lists

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The GOP’s lengthy impeachment and censure lists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/27/gops-lengthy-impeachment-censure-lists/



Analysis by Aaron Blake

July 27, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT


Now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) appear on the House floor on Jan. 4 during debate over McCarthy's speakership bid. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
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Five GOP senators who served during Donald Trump’s presidency have since been censured by their state party for not toeing the party line.

Republicans have censured so many of their GOP colleagues that they have done it to both Rep. Tony Gonzales (Tex.) and Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio). They’ve also now made a Democratic colleague, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the first member in modern history to be censured by the House on a purely party-line vote.

And the party during President Biden’s two-plus years in office has invoked impeachment so often that it has cited at least five different justifications for mounting an effort against him, while threatening separate impeachments against a quarter of his Cabinet. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is leaning into the idea more than ever, floating impeachment inquiries for both Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland in the last month alone.

Welcome to a new era of politics, in which the Republican Party has wielded impeachment, censure and other tools of sanction with a startling degree of regularity. Democrats increased their use during a Trump administration that was besieged by scandals, but Republicans have ratcheted things up even more — and in some historic ways.

So far this year, Republicans have introduced impeachment articles 13 times and censure resolutions — formal reprimands — six times, according to data from Quorum, which tracks legislative action. That combined total of 19 is more than any party has introduced in any year since at least the 1980s, and the year is just half over.

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