Over the weekend, the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution urging its U.S. congressional counterparts to “proceed with the expulsion process” to remove Ilhan Omar from office
Rep. Ilhan Omar. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images There’s no shortage of Republicans who want Ilhan Omar out of Congress, or at least stripped of her power and influence — not when the 2020 election rolls around, but right now. Steve Scalise pushed to expel her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in March, claiming on Fox News that she was a national security threat who endangered the United States’ alliance with Israel.
So it was in character when, over the weekend, the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution urging its U.S. congressional counterparts to “proceed with the expulsion process” to remove Omar from office.
The sincerity of these Republican concerns is dubious. Omar’s remarks that U.S. support for Israel is driven by lobbyists — “all about the Benjamins,” in her words — who have normalized “allegiance to a foreign country” might be worth parsing if done so in good faith.
The answer seems to be Roy Moore. Soon after the former Alabama Supreme Court justice and 2017 U.S. Senate candidate was accused by multiple women of pursuing sexual relationships with them when they were minors and he was in his 30s, the state’s GOP doubled down on their support for his campaign against Democrat Doug Jones, who was best known for prosecuting members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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