{"id":47060,"date":"2021-01-11T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47060"},"modified":"2021-01-11T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:36:50","slug":"when-you-thought-the-congressional-democrats-couldnt-get-any-more-corrupt-they-promote-criminal-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47060","title":{"rendered":"When you thought the Congressional Democrats couldn&#8217;t get any more corrupt they promote criminal legislation."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;Homeless&#8221; Congresswoman Pushes Bill To Expel Republicans Who Backed Election Challenge<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Cori Bush, who made history last year when she became the first black woman, and also perhaps the first formerly homeless individual, to win a Congressional race in MIssouri, is leading the charge against GOP lawmakers who supported President Trump&#8217;s election challenge. The &#8220;homeless Congresswoman&#8221;, has prepared a resolution to expel them from Congress. According to Bush, lawmakers who backed Trump&#8217;s push to question vote tallies in certain swing states are equally responsible for helping to incite the Capitol Hill riot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/BUSH.jpg?itok=iiOM3O5R\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/BUSH.jpg?itok=iiOM3O5R\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/BUSH.jpg?itok=iiOM3O5R\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"24d26344-369f-45a6-9fd9-0dde195404c0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush announced her plans to introduce the bill in a tweet, where she added &#8220;we can&#8217;t have unity without accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1348373914481795073&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fhomeless-congresswoman-pushes-bill-expel-republicans-who-backed-election-challenge&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1348373914481795073\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_align__N0_fw Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>Bush accused GOP lawmakers of violating the 14th Amendment, and insisted that &#8220;we can&#8217;t have unity without accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s proposal quickly garnered support from other progressive members of the House, who pushed for an ethics investigation into President Trump&#8217;s Congressional supporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1347275462775623691&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fhomeless-congresswoman-pushes-bill-expel-republicans-who-backed-election-challenge&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1347275462775623691\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Bush shared the text of the bill on Twitter a few days ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1346926083350794240&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fhomeless-congresswoman-pushes-bill-expel-republicans-who-backed-election-challenge&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1346926083350794240\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Of course, Bush&#8217;s proposal is a mere sideshow compared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/schumer-calls-trump-be-removed-office-immediately\">with Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s impeachment vote, which she has promised to hold on Monday.<\/a>\u00a0The speaker has said she hopes Trump will instead choose to resign. But with VP Mike Pence insisting that removing Trump via the 25th Amendment is off the table, and with the Senate still short of the votes needed to remove Trump, all she can do right now is talk.<\/p>\n<p>Though, to be fair, that&#8217;s more than Trump can do, now that he has been barred from every major social media platform, and those that resisted &#8211; ie Parler &#8211; have been effectively forced off the web in an unprecedented example of political censorship.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/homeless-congresswoman-pushes-bill-expel-republicans-who-backed-election-challenge\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/homeless-congresswoman-pushes-bill-expel-republicans-who-backed-election-challenge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Homeless&#8221; Congresswoman Pushes Bill To Expel Republicans Who Backed Election Challenge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}