The RNC voted to censure both Rep. Liz Cheney and and Rep. Adam Kinzinger for their participation in Nancy Pelosi’s House Select Committee that is investigating the events of January 6.
On Friday, the Republican Nation Committee voted to censure both Rep. Liz Cheney and and Rep. Adam Kinzinger for their participation in Nancy Pelosi’s House Select Committee that is investigating the events of January 6.
According to Fox News, committee members gathered for the general session of their winter meeting voted overwhelming to approve the censorship of the two GOP members, with the resolution also stating that the RNC will "no longer support them as members of the Republican Party."
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The two GOP members were among 10 House Republicans that voted to impeach former President Donald Trump last year for allegedly inciting the deadly storming of the Capitol on January 6.
Cheney and Kinzinger were the only two Republican members to be placed on the House Select Committee panel investigating the attack on the Capitol.
"The leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election and suggests he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy," Cheney said, according to Fox News.
She emphasized that "I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump. History will be their judge. I will never stop fighting for our constitutional republic. No matter what."
"It’s a scandal, it’s an outrage and it’s a threat to our constitutional order what they’re doing, and generations to come will celebrate the courage of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger," Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin told Axios, adding that Cheney "should wear it as a badge of pride."
Earlier this year, the Wyoming Republican Party voted to no longer recognize House Representative Liz Cheney as a Republican, and have called for her to be excommunicated by their national counterpart.
In October, Kinzinger announced that he will not be seeking reelection. In his announcement, he commended the House Republicans that voted to impeach Trump.
"I stand in awe at the courage of the other nine members in the House who voted to impeach a President of their own party knowing it could be detrimental to their political career," said Kinzinger.
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