House Ejects Marjorie Taylor Greene from Education and Labor Committee -

Reprinted from The Washington Post by Mike DeBonis on February 4, 2021.

The House voted largely along party lines Thursday to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from her two committee assignments, a precedent-shattering move by Democrats to rebuke a Republican who has espoused extremist beliefs that she publicly renounced in part just hours before the vote.

The vote against Greene reflected deep frustration in the Democratic ranks over the Republican leadership’s reluctance to take its own action to marginalize Greene (R-Georgia), their desire to yoke the entire GOP to her extremism, and their anger over a lack of accountability for the January 6 Capitol riot.

As recently as last year, Greene had been an open adherent of the QAnon ideology, a sprawling and violent web of false claims that played a role in inspiring the Capitol attack. In addition, she had made comments on social media suggesting that some mass shootings were staged by supporters of gun control, that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by government forces and that a Jewish cabal had sparked a deadly wildfire with a space beam. …

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