Court: Shooter Cannot Sue for Expulsion From House in Harassment Case
A federal appeals court Thursday refused to reinstate former Arizona Rep. Don Shooter’s challenge of his 2018 expulsion from the Legislature for violating its policies against sexual harassment and creating a hostile workplace.
The ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower court that had dismissed Shooter’s suit, saying he had “utterly failed” to show his rights had been violated in the expulsion.
The House voted 56-3 to remove Shooter after a months-long investigation turned up “credible evidence” that he had made “unwelcome sexualized comments” to a female lawmaker, “grabbed and shook his crotch” in front of a female court staffer and hugged a reporter in a “prolonged … inappropriate manner,” among other claims.
Shooter sued, claiming that his expulsion had been “wrongfully engineered” by political opponents and that the investigation and subsequent vote had violated his due process rights.
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In case there is any doubt, Rep. Shooter is a Republican.